1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique messmage IDs) from
9 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
10 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
13 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
14 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
16 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
17 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
18 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
19 not be modified by local-scan code.
21 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
22 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
24 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
25 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
28 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
29 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
31 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
32 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
35 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
36 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
37 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
43 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
44 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
45 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
47 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
48 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
49 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
50 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
52 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
53 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
54 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
55 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
56 so could be handling tainted values.
58 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
59 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
60 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
62 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
63 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
64 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
67 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
68 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
69 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
70 to align better with RFC 6125.
72 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
73 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
74 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
75 by adding a release action in that path.
77 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
78 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
79 dynamically-created buffers.
81 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
82 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
83 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
84 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
86 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
87 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
88 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
89 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
91 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
92 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
93 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
95 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
96 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
97 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
98 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
100 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
101 excluded, not matching the documentation.
103 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
104 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
106 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
107 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
108 this was a coding error.
110 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
111 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
112 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
113 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
114 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
115 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
116 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
118 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
119 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
120 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
121 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
123 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
124 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
125 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
126 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
127 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
129 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
130 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
133 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
134 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
135 domain-parking registrar.
137 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
138 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
139 after removing the newline.
141 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
142 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
143 option set, which was previously used.
145 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
148 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
149 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
150 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
151 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
153 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
154 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
155 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
156 exim.dev.20160529.3).
158 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
159 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
160 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
162 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
163 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
164 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
167 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
168 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
169 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
171 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
172 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
173 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
174 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
177 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
178 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
179 there, handle PRX and TFO.
181 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
182 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
183 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
184 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
185 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
187 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
188 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
189 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
190 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
193 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
194 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
196 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
199 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
200 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
201 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
202 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
203 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
205 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
207 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
208 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
209 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
210 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
211 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
212 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
214 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
215 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
217 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
218 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
219 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
221 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
222 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
225 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
226 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
227 of a new variable: $auth4.
229 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
230 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
231 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
232 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
233 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
235 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
236 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
237 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
238 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
240 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
241 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
242 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
244 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
245 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
246 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
247 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
250 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
251 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
252 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
255 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
256 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
257 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
258 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
260 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
261 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
263 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
264 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
265 looked as if if might be one.
267 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
268 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
269 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
270 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
271 messages can show the proxy information.
273 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
274 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
275 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
276 "queue_time_exclusive".
278 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
279 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
280 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
282 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
283 making it unusable in complex expressions.
285 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
286 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
289 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
291 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
293 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
295 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
296 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
297 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
298 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
300 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
301 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
303 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
304 better. Reported by Qualys.
306 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
307 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
310 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
312 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
315 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
317 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
318 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
319 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
320 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
322 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
323 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
325 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
326 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
327 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
328 mode until after various protocol state checks.
329 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
331 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
333 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
334 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
336 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
339 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
340 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
341 executed child processes (if any).
343 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
346 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
347 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
348 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
349 been reported on other platforms.
351 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
353 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
354 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
355 Not supported on Solaris 10.
357 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
358 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
359 since fakereject was originally introduced.
361 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
362 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
364 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
365 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
366 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
369 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
370 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
371 which only permit IP addresses.
377 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
378 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
379 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
381 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
383 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
384 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
387 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
388 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
389 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
391 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
393 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
395 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
396 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
397 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
399 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
400 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
401 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
403 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
404 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
406 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
407 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
410 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
411 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
412 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
413 should both provide the file and set the option.
414 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
416 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
417 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
419 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
420 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
421 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
422 Authentication-Results: header.
424 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
425 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
426 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
427 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
429 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
430 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
431 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
432 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
433 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
434 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
435 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
437 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
438 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
439 copies while it is still usable.
441 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
442 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
443 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
445 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
446 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
448 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
449 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
450 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
451 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
453 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
454 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
455 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
458 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
459 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
460 - the pipe transport command
461 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
462 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
464 - paths used by single-key lookups
465 Previously this was permitted.
467 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
468 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
469 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
470 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
472 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
473 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
474 support larger malloc requests.
476 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
477 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
478 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
479 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
481 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
482 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
483 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
484 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
487 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
488 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
489 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
490 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
491 data being length-specified.
493 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
494 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
495 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
496 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
498 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
499 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
500 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
501 not being properly tracked.
503 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
504 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
505 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
506 minute could be seen.
508 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
509 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
510 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
512 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
513 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
515 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
516 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
519 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
521 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
522 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
524 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
525 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
526 filesystem as sufficient validation.
528 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
529 argument is supplied.
531 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
532 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
533 access under Exim's current working directory.
535 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
536 Previously no event was raised.
538 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
539 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
540 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
543 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
544 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
545 the size of the signature hash.
547 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
548 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
550 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
551 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
552 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
553 dropped between messages.
555 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
556 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
557 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
558 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
560 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
561 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
562 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
563 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
564 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
565 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
566 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
567 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
568 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
570 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
571 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
572 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
574 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
575 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
582 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
583 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
585 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
586 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
589 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
592 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
594 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
596 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
597 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
599 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
600 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
601 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
602 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
603 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
604 suitably configured).
606 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
607 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
609 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
610 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
613 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
614 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
616 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
617 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
618 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
619 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
622 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
623 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
624 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
626 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
629 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
630 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
632 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
633 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
634 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
635 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
638 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
639 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
640 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
641 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
644 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
645 shared (NFS) environment.
647 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
648 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
651 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
652 on some platforms for bit 31.
654 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
655 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
656 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
657 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
658 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
659 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
660 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
661 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
663 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
665 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
666 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
668 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
669 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
672 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
673 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
676 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
677 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
678 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
681 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
682 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
683 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
685 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
686 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
687 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
688 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
689 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
691 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
694 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
695 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
696 be requested on all coneections.
698 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
699 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
701 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
703 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
704 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
705 one for these; the option was ignored.
707 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
708 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
709 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
710 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
712 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
713 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
714 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
717 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
718 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
719 error ignored was made.
721 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
723 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
724 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
725 values, to catch one form of exploit.
727 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
728 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
729 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
731 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
732 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
735 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
736 them in our smtp response.
738 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
739 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
740 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
741 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
742 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
744 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
745 link count into consideration.
747 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
748 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
750 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
751 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
752 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
755 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
757 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
759 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
761 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
762 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
763 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
764 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
766 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
768 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
769 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
772 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
773 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
774 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
776 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
777 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
778 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
780 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
781 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
782 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
783 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
784 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
785 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
786 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
787 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
789 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
790 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
791 resulted in an indefinite loop.
793 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
794 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
795 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
801 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
802 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
804 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
805 non-signal-safe functions being used.
807 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
808 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
809 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
811 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
812 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
813 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
815 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
816 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
817 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
818 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
819 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
822 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
823 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
825 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
826 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
827 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
828 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
829 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
830 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
831 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
833 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
834 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
836 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
839 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
840 Previously this would segfault.
842 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
845 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
846 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
847 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
848 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
849 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
850 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
852 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
854 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
855 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
856 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
857 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
859 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
861 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
862 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
863 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
864 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
866 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
868 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
870 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
871 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
872 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
874 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
875 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
876 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
878 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
880 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
881 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
882 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
883 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
885 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
886 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
887 promised '?' replacement.
889 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
891 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
892 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
893 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
894 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
895 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
897 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
898 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
899 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
901 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
902 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
903 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
905 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
906 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
907 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
909 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
910 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
911 hope that is portable enough.
913 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
914 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
915 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
916 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
918 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
919 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
920 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
922 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
923 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
924 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
925 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
927 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
928 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
930 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
931 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
932 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
933 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
935 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
936 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
937 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
939 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
940 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
941 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
942 the previous G, M, k.
944 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
945 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
948 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
949 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
950 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
951 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
953 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
954 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
956 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
957 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
958 off past the nul-terimation.
960 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
961 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
962 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
963 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
964 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
966 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
968 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
969 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
970 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
973 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
974 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
976 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
977 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
978 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
980 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
981 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
982 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
984 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
985 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
991 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
992 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
993 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
994 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
995 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
996 be defined in redis_servers.
998 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
999 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1001 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1002 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1003 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1004 extant use locations.
1006 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1007 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1009 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1010 Previously only the last row was returned.
1012 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1013 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1014 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1015 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1018 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1019 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1020 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1021 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1022 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1023 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1024 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1025 Main pool for expansions.
1026 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1027 active in the testsuite.
1028 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1030 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1031 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1032 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1033 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1036 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1037 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1040 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1041 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1042 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1044 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1045 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1046 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1048 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1049 rows affected is given instead).
1051 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1052 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1054 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1055 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1056 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1057 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1058 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1060 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1061 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1062 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1064 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1065 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1066 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1067 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1070 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1071 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1072 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1075 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1077 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1078 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1080 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1081 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1082 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1084 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1085 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1086 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1089 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1090 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1092 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1093 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1094 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1096 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1097 for the build is renamed.
1099 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1100 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1101 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1103 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1104 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1105 result replacing the original.
1107 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1108 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1109 and the resources needed to be freed.
1111 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1113 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1116 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1117 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1118 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1119 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1121 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1122 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1124 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1125 newer versions of the scanner.
1127 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1128 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1129 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1130 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1131 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1132 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1133 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1135 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1136 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1137 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1138 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1139 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1140 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1141 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1142 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1143 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1144 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1146 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1147 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1149 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1151 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1152 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1154 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1155 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1157 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1158 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1159 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1161 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1162 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1163 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1164 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1166 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1167 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1170 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1171 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1173 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1174 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1175 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1176 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1177 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1179 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1180 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1183 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1184 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1186 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1189 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1190 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1191 "bare" representation.
1193 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1194 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1195 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1196 corrupted the output.
1202 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1203 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1204 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1205 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1207 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1208 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1210 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1211 This permits better logging.
1213 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1214 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1215 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1216 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1217 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1218 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1220 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1221 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1224 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1225 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1226 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1228 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1229 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1231 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1232 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1233 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1234 client, there is no benefit for these.
1235 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1236 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1237 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1240 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1241 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1243 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1244 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1245 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1247 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1248 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1250 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1251 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1252 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1253 signature and again for transmission.
1255 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1256 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1257 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1259 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1260 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1261 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1262 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1263 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1264 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1265 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1267 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1268 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1269 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1270 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1272 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1273 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1274 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1275 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1276 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1277 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1280 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1281 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1282 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1283 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1286 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1287 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1288 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1289 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1292 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1293 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1296 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1297 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1298 banner-time rejection.
1300 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1303 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1304 is the name of a transport.
1307 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1309 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1310 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1312 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1313 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1314 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1317 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1318 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1319 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1320 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1322 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1323 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1324 initial verify call returned a defer.
1326 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1327 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1329 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1330 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1332 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1333 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1335 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1336 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1338 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1339 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1342 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1343 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1345 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1346 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1347 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1349 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1350 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1351 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1352 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1354 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1355 and confused the parent.
1357 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1358 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1360 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1363 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1364 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1365 out-of-order delivery.
1367 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1368 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1369 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1372 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1373 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1376 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1377 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1378 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1380 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1381 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1382 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1383 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1384 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1385 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1387 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1388 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1389 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1391 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1392 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1393 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1395 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1396 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1397 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1398 though a different problem.
1404 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1405 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1407 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1409 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1410 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1412 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1413 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1415 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1416 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1417 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1418 before acknowledging the chunk.
1420 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1421 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1422 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1424 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1425 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1426 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1429 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1430 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1431 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1433 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1434 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1436 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1437 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1438 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1439 body hash calculated value.
1441 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1442 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1443 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1445 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1447 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1448 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1450 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1451 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1452 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1454 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1455 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1456 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1457 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1458 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1459 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1461 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1462 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1463 past that check, despite the cost.
1465 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1466 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1467 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1469 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1470 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1471 TLS library to consume.
1473 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1475 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1477 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1478 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1479 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1480 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1481 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1482 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1483 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1485 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1487 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1489 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1490 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1491 should be warning-free.
1493 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1495 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1496 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1498 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1499 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1500 general solution here.
1502 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1503 already-broken messages in the queue.
1505 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1507 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1513 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1514 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1516 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1517 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1518 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1520 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1521 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1522 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1523 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1524 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1525 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1526 if one fails this test.
1527 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1528 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1530 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1531 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1533 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1534 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1536 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1537 in rewrites and routers.
1539 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1540 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1542 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1543 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1545 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1547 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1550 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1551 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1552 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1553 connection after a verify cache hit.
1554 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1556 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1557 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1559 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1560 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1561 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1562 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1563 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1565 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1566 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1568 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1569 Previously they were not counted.
1571 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1572 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1573 that needed the lookup.
1575 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1576 distinguished as "(=".
1578 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1579 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1581 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1583 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1584 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1586 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1587 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1589 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1590 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1593 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1594 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1595 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1596 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1598 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1600 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1601 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1602 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1604 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1605 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1606 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1609 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1610 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1611 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1614 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1615 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1616 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1618 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1619 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1622 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1624 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1625 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1627 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1628 are not in the system include path.
1630 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1631 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1632 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1633 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1635 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1636 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1637 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1639 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1641 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1642 an incoming connection.
1644 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1647 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1648 fallback to "prime256v1".
1650 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1651 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1657 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1658 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1659 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1660 client dropping the TLS connection.
1662 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1663 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1665 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1666 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1667 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1668 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1671 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1672 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1673 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1674 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1675 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1676 check on the next write.
1678 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1679 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1680 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1681 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1682 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1684 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1685 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1687 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1688 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1689 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1691 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1692 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1693 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1694 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1696 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1697 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1699 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1700 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1702 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1703 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1704 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1707 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1709 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1711 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1713 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1714 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1716 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1717 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1719 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1721 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1722 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1724 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1726 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1727 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1729 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1731 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1732 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1733 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1734 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1735 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1736 they will retry in-clear.
1737 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1738 at installation time.
1740 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1741 with the $config_file variable.
1743 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1744 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1745 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1746 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1747 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1749 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1750 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1751 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1752 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1753 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1755 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1757 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1758 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1759 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1760 list order is no longer honoured.
1762 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1763 for DKIM processing.
1765 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1766 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1768 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1769 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1770 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1771 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1773 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1774 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1776 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1777 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1779 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1780 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1782 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1784 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1785 cached by the daemon.
1787 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1788 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1790 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1791 keys are given for lookup.
1793 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1794 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1795 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1796 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1798 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1799 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1800 server-side so match that on older versions.
1802 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1803 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1804 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1806 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1807 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1809 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1810 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1811 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1812 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1813 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1814 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1815 initial truncated version.
1817 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1819 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1821 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1822 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1824 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1826 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1828 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1829 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1832 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1833 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1836 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1837 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1839 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1840 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1843 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1844 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1845 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1847 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1848 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1849 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1850 extraction. Accept either.
1856 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1859 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1861 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1864 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1865 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1866 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1867 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1869 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1870 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1871 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1873 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1874 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1875 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1878 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1881 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1882 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1883 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1884 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1885 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1887 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1888 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1889 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1891 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1893 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1894 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1896 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1897 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1899 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1902 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1903 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1905 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1906 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1907 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1909 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1910 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1911 specify a port-range.
1913 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1914 timeout value per server.
1916 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1917 now have the list separator specified.
1919 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1922 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1925 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1927 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1928 rather than the verbs used.
1930 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1931 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1933 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1935 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1936 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1938 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1939 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1941 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1942 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1944 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1946 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1948 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1949 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1950 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1951 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1953 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1955 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1956 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1958 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1959 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1961 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1963 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1965 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1967 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1968 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1970 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1971 added for tls authenticator.
1973 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1979 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1980 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1981 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1982 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1983 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1984 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1985 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1987 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1988 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1989 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1990 function when detected.
1992 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1993 cause callback expansion.
1995 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1996 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1997 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1998 instead of bool when processing it.
2000 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2001 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2003 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2005 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2007 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2009 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2010 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2012 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2013 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2014 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2015 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2016 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2017 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2019 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2020 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2023 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2024 version 3.3.6 or later.
2026 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2027 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2028 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2029 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2030 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2031 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2034 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2035 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2037 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2038 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2039 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2042 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2043 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2044 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2046 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2047 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2049 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2050 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2053 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2055 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2056 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2058 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2059 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2062 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2064 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2067 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2068 output list separator was used.
2073 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2074 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2077 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2078 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2080 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2082 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2083 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2089 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2091 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2092 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2093 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2094 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2095 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2096 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2098 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2099 utilities have not been installed.
2101 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2102 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2104 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2105 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2107 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2108 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2109 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2110 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2112 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2114 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2115 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2117 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2120 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2122 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2123 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2124 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2126 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2127 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2128 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2129 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2130 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2131 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2133 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2135 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2136 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2138 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2141 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2143 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2145 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2146 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2148 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2149 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2151 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2153 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2155 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2156 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2158 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2159 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2160 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2162 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2163 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2164 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2167 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2169 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2170 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2173 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2174 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2177 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2178 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2180 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2181 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2183 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2185 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2186 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2187 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2189 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2190 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2192 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2193 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2196 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2197 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2198 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2200 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2202 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2203 Christian Aistleitner.
2205 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2207 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2208 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2210 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2211 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2213 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2214 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2216 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2217 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2219 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2220 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2222 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2223 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2224 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2226 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2228 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2229 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2232 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2234 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2235 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2242 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2244 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2245 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2247 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2250 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2251 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2254 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2256 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2257 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2258 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2259 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2260 using channel bindings instead).
2262 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2263 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2264 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2265 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2266 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2269 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2271 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2273 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2274 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2276 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2277 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2278 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2280 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2282 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2284 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2285 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2287 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2289 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2291 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2293 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2294 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2296 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2298 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2299 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2302 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2303 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2305 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2306 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2309 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2311 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2313 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2314 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2316 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2319 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2320 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2322 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2323 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2325 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2327 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2329 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2332 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2335 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2337 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2338 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2339 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2340 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2342 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2344 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2345 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2346 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2347 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2350 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2351 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2352 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2354 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2355 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2356 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2357 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2359 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2360 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2361 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2362 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2363 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2364 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2365 delivery, as in LMTP.
2367 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2368 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2370 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2372 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2376 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2377 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2378 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2379 username as equal to the username.
2381 This change corrects that bug.
2383 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2384 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2385 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2387 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2389 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2390 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2391 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2392 NULL dereference and crash.
2394 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2396 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2397 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2398 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2400 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2402 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2403 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2404 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2405 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2406 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2407 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2408 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2409 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2410 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2411 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2412 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2414 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2415 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2417 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2418 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2421 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2422 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2423 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2424 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2425 an empty string is now equivalent.
2427 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2428 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2429 not performing validation itself.
2431 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2432 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2434 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2437 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2439 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2440 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2441 other false fix of the same issue.
2442 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2445 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2446 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2448 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2449 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2450 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2452 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2453 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2454 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2456 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2458 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2460 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2461 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2463 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2466 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2467 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2468 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2469 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2470 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2472 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2473 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2475 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2476 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2479 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2480 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2481 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2482 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2484 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2486 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2487 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2488 from multiple comments on this bug.
2490 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2492 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2493 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2496 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2497 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2499 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2500 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2506 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2508 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2514 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2515 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2516 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2518 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2520 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2523 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2525 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2527 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2529 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2530 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2532 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2533 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2535 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2536 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2538 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2539 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2540 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2542 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2544 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2545 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2547 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2549 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2551 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2552 non-compliant senders.
2553 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2555 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2556 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2557 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2559 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2560 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2561 in spool file corruption.
2563 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2564 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2565 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2568 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2569 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2570 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2572 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2573 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2575 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2577 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2579 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2581 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2582 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2583 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2585 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2586 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2587 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2588 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2590 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2591 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2593 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2594 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2595 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2596 resolver implementation change.
2598 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2599 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2601 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2603 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2605 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2606 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2608 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2609 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2611 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2612 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2614 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2615 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2616 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2617 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2618 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2620 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2622 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2623 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2624 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2626 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2628 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2629 read-only, out of scope).
2630 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2632 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2633 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2634 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2635 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2637 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2639 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2640 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2641 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2642 real issues in debug logging.
2644 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2645 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2647 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2648 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2649 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2651 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2652 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2653 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2656 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2657 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2659 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2660 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2661 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2662 needs to override this, it can.
2664 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2665 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2666 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2668 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2669 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2670 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2671 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2673 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2679 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2680 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2682 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2684 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2687 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2688 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2690 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2691 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2692 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2694 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2695 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2696 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2697 not safe for signals.
2699 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2700 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2701 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2702 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2705 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2707 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2708 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2709 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2710 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2711 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2713 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2714 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2715 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2716 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2717 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2718 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2720 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2721 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2722 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2723 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2725 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2726 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2727 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2728 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2730 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2731 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2732 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2733 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2734 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2735 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2736 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2737 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2738 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2740 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2741 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2742 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2743 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2745 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2746 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2747 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2748 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2749 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2750 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2751 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2752 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2753 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2754 details in the main documentation.
2756 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2758 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2760 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2761 repository when doing development or release builds.
2763 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2764 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2766 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2767 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2770 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2772 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2773 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2775 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2776 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2778 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2779 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2781 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2782 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2784 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2785 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2787 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2789 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2792 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2793 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2794 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2796 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2798 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2800 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2801 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2807 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2809 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2810 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2812 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2814 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2816 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2819 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2820 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2822 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2823 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2825 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2826 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2828 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2831 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2832 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2834 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2835 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2836 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2837 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2839 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2840 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2846 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2849 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2850 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2851 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2853 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2854 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2856 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2857 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2858 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2860 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2861 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2863 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2864 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2866 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2867 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2869 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2870 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2872 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2873 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2875 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2878 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2879 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2881 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2882 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2884 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2885 SQL string expansion failure details.
2886 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2888 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2889 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2891 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2892 extern declarations in function scope.
2893 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2895 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2896 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2897 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2900 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2901 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2903 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2904 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2906 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2907 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2909 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2910 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2912 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2913 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2916 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2918 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2920 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2921 Patch by Simon Arlott
2923 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2924 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2930 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2931 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2933 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2934 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2936 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2938 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2939 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2940 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2942 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2943 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2944 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2946 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2947 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2948 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2949 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2951 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2952 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2953 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2954 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2956 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2957 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2958 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2961 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2964 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2965 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2966 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2967 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2968 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2974 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2975 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2976 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2978 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2979 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2981 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2983 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2985 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2987 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2989 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2991 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2992 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2993 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2994 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2996 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2997 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2998 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2999 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3000 more caution in buffer sizes.
3002 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3004 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3006 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3008 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3010 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3012 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3014 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3016 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3017 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3018 ignore trailing whitespace.
3020 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3022 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3025 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3026 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3028 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3029 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3030 Notification from John Horne.
3032 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3035 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3036 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3039 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3042 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3043 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3044 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3046 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3047 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3048 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3051 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3052 option (effectively making it always true).
3054 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3055 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3057 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3058 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3060 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3061 run-time user, instead of root.
3063 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3064 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3066 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3067 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3070 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3071 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3072 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3074 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3076 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3082 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3083 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3086 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3087 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3090 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3091 Patch from Alain Williams
3093 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3095 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3096 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3098 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3099 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3101 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3103 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3105 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3106 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3108 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3110 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3112 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3113 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3114 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3116 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3117 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3119 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3120 Patch by Simon Arlott
3122 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3123 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3129 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3131 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3133 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3135 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3137 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3143 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3144 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3146 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3147 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3150 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3151 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3152 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3154 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3155 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3157 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3158 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3159 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3160 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3162 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3163 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3164 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3166 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3168 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3170 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3171 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3173 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3175 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3176 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3177 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3178 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3180 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3181 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3183 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3185 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3187 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3188 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3190 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3191 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3193 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3194 that they are available at delivery time.
3196 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3198 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3199 incoming_port log selectors.
3201 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3202 setting expands to an empty string.
3204 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3205 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3207 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3208 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3210 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3211 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3213 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3214 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3216 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3217 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3219 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3220 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3222 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3224 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3225 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3227 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3228 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3230 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3232 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3233 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3235 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3237 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3239 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3242 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3243 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3245 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3246 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3248 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3249 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3251 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3252 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3254 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3255 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3257 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3258 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3260 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3261 plus update to original patch.
3263 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3265 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3266 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3268 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3270 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3272 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3274 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3276 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3277 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3279 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3280 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3282 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3283 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3285 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3286 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3288 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3290 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3292 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3294 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3300 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3301 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3302 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3304 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3305 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3306 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3307 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3308 build errors in sieve.c.
3310 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3311 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3312 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3314 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3316 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3318 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3320 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3326 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3328 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3329 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3330 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3331 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3332 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3333 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3334 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3335 for iplsearch lookups.
3337 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3338 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3339 previously such lookups could never work.
3341 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3342 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3343 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3345 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3348 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3349 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3350 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3351 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3352 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3353 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3355 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3356 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3358 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3359 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3360 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3361 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3362 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3363 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3365 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3368 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3370 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3371 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3374 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3375 by clients under certain conditions.
3377 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3378 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3380 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3382 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3383 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3385 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3387 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3389 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3391 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3392 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3394 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3396 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3397 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3399 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3401 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3403 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3404 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3405 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3406 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3408 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3409 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3410 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3412 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3413 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3415 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3417 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3419 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3421 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3422 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3423 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3429 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3430 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3433 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3434 issue a MAIL command.
3436 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3438 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3440 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3441 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3442 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3443 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3444 item. This has been fixed.
3446 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3447 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3449 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3450 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3452 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3453 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3454 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3456 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3458 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3459 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3460 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3461 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3462 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3464 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3465 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3466 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3468 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3469 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3470 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3471 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3473 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3475 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3477 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3478 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3479 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3480 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3481 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3483 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3485 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3486 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3487 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3490 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3492 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3494 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3496 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3498 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3500 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3501 no_callout_flush is set.
3503 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3504 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3505 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3508 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3510 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3511 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3512 other ACL rejections are.
3514 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3515 with slight modification.
3517 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3518 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3520 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3521 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3524 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3525 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3527 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3529 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3530 expansion side effects.
3532 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3533 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3534 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3537 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3538 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3539 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3541 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3542 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3543 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3544 were accidentally chopped off.
3546 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3547 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3548 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3549 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3550 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3551 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3552 pipelining has not been advertised.
3554 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3556 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3557 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3558 This has been fixed.
3560 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3561 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3562 reported on Solaris.
3564 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3565 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3566 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3567 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3568 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3569 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3570 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3572 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3575 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3577 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3579 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3580 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3581 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3582 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3583 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3584 criteria to be more general.
3586 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3587 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3588 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3589 host_all_ignored option.
3591 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3592 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3593 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3594 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3595 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3596 is what is supposed to happen).
3598 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3599 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3600 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3601 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3602 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3605 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3606 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3607 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3608 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3609 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3610 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3613 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3615 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3616 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3618 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3619 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3621 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3623 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3625 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3626 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3627 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3628 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3629 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3630 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3631 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3632 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3633 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3634 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3635 least in a lot of common cases.
3637 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3638 advertised in response to EHLO.
3644 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3645 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3647 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3648 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3650 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3651 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3652 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3654 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3655 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3656 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3657 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3658 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3664 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3665 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3668 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3669 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3670 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3672 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3673 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3674 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3675 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3676 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3677 rather than extend the field.
3683 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3684 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3685 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3686 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3689 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3690 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3691 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3693 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3694 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3695 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3697 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3698 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3699 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3702 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3703 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3704 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3705 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3706 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3707 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3708 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3709 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3710 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3711 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3712 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3714 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3717 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3718 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3719 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3720 ignores EPIPE as well.
3722 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3723 (quoted-printable decoding).
3725 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3726 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3728 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3730 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3732 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3734 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3735 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3737 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3740 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3741 miscellaneous code fixes
3743 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3746 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3747 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3748 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3749 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3750 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3751 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3752 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3753 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3755 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3756 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3757 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3758 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3760 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3761 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3762 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3763 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3764 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3765 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3766 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3767 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3768 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3770 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3773 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3774 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3775 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3776 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3777 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3778 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3779 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3780 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3782 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3783 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3786 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3787 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3788 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3789 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3790 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3791 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3792 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3793 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3794 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3795 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3796 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3797 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3798 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3800 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3801 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3802 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3803 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3804 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3805 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3806 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3808 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3809 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3810 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3811 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3812 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3813 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3814 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3815 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3816 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3817 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3819 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3820 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3821 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3822 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3823 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3825 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3826 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3827 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3828 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3829 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3830 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3831 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3833 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3834 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3835 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3836 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3837 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3838 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3841 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3842 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3843 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3846 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3847 if any retry times were supplied.
3849 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3850 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3851 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3853 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3855 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3857 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3858 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3859 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3860 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3861 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3862 before) are ignored.
3864 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3865 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3867 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3868 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3869 committing the later change.]
3871 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3872 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3873 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3874 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3875 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3876 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3877 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3878 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3879 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3881 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3882 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3883 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3884 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3885 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3886 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3887 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3888 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3889 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3891 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3892 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3893 hammering the server.
3895 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3896 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3898 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3900 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3901 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3902 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3904 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3905 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3906 one case where this was not true.
3908 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3909 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3910 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3911 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3914 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3915 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3916 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3917 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3918 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3919 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3920 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3921 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3922 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3925 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3926 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3927 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3928 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3930 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3931 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3933 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3934 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3935 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3937 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3939 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3941 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3943 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3944 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3945 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3946 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3948 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3949 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3951 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3952 be meaningful with "accept".
3954 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3955 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3957 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3958 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3959 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3961 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3962 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3963 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3964 there is data to show.
3965 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3967 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3968 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3969 as well as the number of messages.
3971 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3972 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3973 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3975 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3976 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3977 have a flag are now skipped.
3979 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3980 Added the -emptyok flag.
3982 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3983 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3985 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3986 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3987 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3989 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3992 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3993 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3995 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3997 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3998 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4000 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4002 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4003 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4004 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4005 contravention of the specifications.
4007 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4008 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4009 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4011 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4012 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4013 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4015 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4017 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4018 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4019 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4020 some point in the past.
4022 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4023 transport during callout processing was broken.
4025 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4026 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4028 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4029 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4031 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4032 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4034 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4040 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4041 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4043 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4044 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4045 there is data to show.
4046 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4048 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4049 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4051 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4052 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4054 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4055 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4057 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4058 submissions from trusted users.
4060 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4061 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4063 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4064 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4065 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4066 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4067 there is now a framework to start from.
4069 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4070 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4071 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4073 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4075 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4077 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4079 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4080 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4081 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4083 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4086 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4087 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4088 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4090 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4091 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4092 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4095 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4096 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4097 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4098 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4099 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4101 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4102 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4104 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4106 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4107 operations in malware.c.
4109 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4112 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4113 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4114 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4117 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4118 statements to "add_header".
4120 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4121 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4123 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4124 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4127 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4131 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4132 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4133 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4136 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4137 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4139 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4140 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4142 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4143 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4144 any possible encoding problems.
4146 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4147 but not after initializing Perl.
4149 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4150 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4151 apparently, which is not desirable.
4153 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4156 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4159 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4161 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4162 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4163 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4164 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4166 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4167 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4168 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4170 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4171 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4172 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4175 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4176 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4177 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4178 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4179 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4185 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4186 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4188 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4191 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4192 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4193 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4194 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4195 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4196 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4197 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4198 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4201 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4203 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4204 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4205 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4207 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4208 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4209 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4212 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4213 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4215 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4216 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4217 option (which defaults to 0600).
4219 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4221 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4222 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4223 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4224 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4225 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4226 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4227 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4229 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4235 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4236 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4237 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4238 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4239 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4240 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4243 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4244 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4246 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4248 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4249 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4250 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4251 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4252 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4255 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4256 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4258 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4259 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4260 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4261 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4262 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4264 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4265 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4266 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4267 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4269 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4270 be the same on different OS.
4272 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4275 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4276 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4278 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4281 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4282 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4283 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4284 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4285 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4286 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4289 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4290 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4291 when Exim was called.
4293 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4294 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4296 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4297 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4298 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4299 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4301 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4302 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4303 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4304 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4307 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4308 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4309 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4311 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4312 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4313 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4315 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4318 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4319 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4320 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4321 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4322 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4323 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4324 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4325 values from the SRV records were lost.
4327 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4328 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4329 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4331 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4332 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4333 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4335 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4336 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4337 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4338 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4339 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4340 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4341 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4342 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4343 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4344 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4346 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4347 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4348 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4350 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4351 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4353 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4354 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4355 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4356 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4359 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4360 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4361 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4363 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4364 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4365 PH/23 above applies.
4367 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4368 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4369 (for which there is an explicit test).
4371 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4373 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4374 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4375 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4376 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4377 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4379 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4380 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4381 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4382 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4384 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4385 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4386 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4388 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4390 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4392 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4393 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4394 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4396 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4397 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4398 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4399 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4400 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4402 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4403 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4404 the message gets confusing).
4406 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4407 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4408 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4409 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4411 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4412 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4413 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4414 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4417 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4418 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4419 the different processes.
4421 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4423 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4425 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4426 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4428 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4429 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4431 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4432 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4433 messages matching specified criteria.
4435 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4437 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4438 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4440 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4441 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4442 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4443 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4444 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4445 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4446 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4447 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4448 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4449 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4451 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4452 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4453 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4455 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4457 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4458 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4459 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4460 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4461 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4462 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4463 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4466 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4467 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4469 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4471 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4473 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4475 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4476 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4477 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4478 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4479 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4480 size of the count of files.
4482 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4484 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4487 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4488 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4489 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4490 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4492 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4493 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4494 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4496 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4497 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4498 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4499 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4500 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4502 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4503 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4505 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4506 will now be deprecated.
4508 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4510 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4511 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4512 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4514 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4515 with very large, slow to parse queues
4517 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4519 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4521 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4522 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4523 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4526 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4527 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4528 Sieve code now uses this.
4530 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4531 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4533 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4534 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4536 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4538 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4539 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4540 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4541 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4542 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4544 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4545 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4546 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4547 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4549 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4551 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4553 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4554 is preferred over IPv4.
4556 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4557 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4558 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4559 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4560 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4561 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4562 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4564 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4565 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4566 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4568 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4570 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4571 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4572 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4573 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4574 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4575 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4576 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4577 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4578 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4579 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4580 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4582 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4583 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4584 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4590 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4592 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4593 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4595 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4596 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4597 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4599 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4601 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4604 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4607 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4608 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4609 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4612 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4613 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4615 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4616 inside the third argument.
4618 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4619 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4622 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4623 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4625 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4626 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4628 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4630 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4631 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4634 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4636 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4637 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4638 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4639 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4640 identical. For example:
4642 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4644 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4645 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4646 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4648 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4649 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4650 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4651 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4653 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4654 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4655 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4658 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4660 o fixes some comments
4661 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4662 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4663 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4664 and documents the missing references header update
4668 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4669 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4672 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4673 Electronic Mail") by including:
4675 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4677 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4678 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4679 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4680 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4681 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4683 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4685 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4687 The auto-replied keyword:
4689 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4690 message by an automatic process,
4692 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4694 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4695 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4697 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4698 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4701 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4702 to the default Received: header definition.
4704 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4706 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4707 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4708 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4710 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4711 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4712 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4714 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4715 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4716 and treats the condition as false.
4718 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4720 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4721 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4722 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4723 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4724 not changing the active code.
4726 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4727 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4729 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4730 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4732 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4735 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4736 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4737 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4738 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4739 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4740 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4741 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4742 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4743 the text comparison.
4745 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4746 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4747 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4748 The same fix has been applied.
4754 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4755 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4758 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4759 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4761 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4763 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4764 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4765 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4766 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4767 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4769 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4770 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4771 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4772 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4775 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4783 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4784 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4786 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4788 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4790 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4791 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4792 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4794 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4795 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4796 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4798 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4799 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4802 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4803 ${stat: expansion item.
4805 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4806 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4808 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4809 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4812 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4814 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4817 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4818 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4820 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4822 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4823 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4824 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4825 the end of the subprocess.
4827 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4828 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4829 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4830 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4831 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4833 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4835 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4837 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4838 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4840 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4842 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4844 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4845 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4848 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4850 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4851 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4852 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4854 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4855 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4857 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4858 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4860 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4861 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4863 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4864 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4866 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4867 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4868 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4869 contributed by a Radius user.
4871 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4872 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4874 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4875 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4877 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4880 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4881 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4884 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4885 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4886 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4887 header lines when this was not necessary.
4889 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4891 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4892 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4893 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4896 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4899 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4900 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4901 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4902 return code was incorrect.
4904 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4906 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4908 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4910 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4912 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4913 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4914 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4915 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4916 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4919 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4921 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4922 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4923 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4924 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4925 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4926 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4927 which is clearly wrong.
4929 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4931 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4932 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4933 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4936 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4937 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4939 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4941 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4942 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4944 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4945 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4947 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4948 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4950 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4951 recipients, not senders.
4953 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4954 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4956 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4958 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4960 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4961 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4962 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4963 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4965 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4967 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4968 clock is set back in time.
4970 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4971 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4973 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4974 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4976 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4977 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4980 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4981 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4984 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4987 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4989 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4990 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4991 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4993 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4994 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4995 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4996 helo verification defer as a failure.
4998 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4999 actual error message.
5005 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5007 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5008 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5009 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5010 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5012 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5014 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5015 can still be requested.
5017 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5018 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5019 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5020 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5022 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5023 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5024 circumstances, but probably never did.
5026 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5027 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5028 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5031 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5033 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5034 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5036 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5038 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5040 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5041 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5042 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5043 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5044 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5045 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5047 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5048 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5049 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5050 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5051 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5052 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5054 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5055 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5057 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5058 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5060 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5061 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5063 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5065 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5067 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5069 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5071 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5073 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5075 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5077 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5078 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5079 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5081 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5082 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5083 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5084 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5086 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5087 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5088 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5090 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5091 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5092 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5093 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5095 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5096 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5099 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5100 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5101 should work with maildirs and everything.
5103 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5104 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5106 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5109 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5110 function for BDB 4.3.
5112 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5114 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5115 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5118 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5119 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5120 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5121 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5122 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5123 formatting function string_vformat().
5125 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5126 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5127 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5128 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5129 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5130 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5131 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5132 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5134 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5135 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5138 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5139 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5141 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5142 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5143 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5144 test. It is now used for both.
5146 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5147 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5148 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5149 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5150 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5151 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5153 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5154 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5155 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5158 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5159 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5160 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5162 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5163 experimental DomainKeys support:
5165 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5166 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5167 the control was given.
5169 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5171 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5173 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5175 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5176 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5177 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5180 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5181 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5182 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5183 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5184 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5185 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5188 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5189 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5190 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5191 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5192 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5193 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5195 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5196 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5197 do -d+all out of habit.
5199 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5200 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5203 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5204 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5205 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5206 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5207 record types that Exim uses.
5209 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5210 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5211 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5212 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5213 non-existent file that was broken.
5215 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5216 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5218 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5219 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5220 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5222 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5224 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5225 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5226 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5227 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5228 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5231 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5232 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5233 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5234 at a slight CPU cost.
5236 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5237 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5239 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5242 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5244 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5245 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5251 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5252 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5254 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5256 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5258 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5259 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5261 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5262 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5263 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5264 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5265 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5266 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5269 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5270 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5271 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5272 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5275 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5276 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5277 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5278 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5279 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5280 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5281 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5284 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5285 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5287 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5288 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5289 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5290 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5291 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5292 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5294 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5295 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5296 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5297 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5299 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5302 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5303 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5305 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5306 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5307 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5308 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5311 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5313 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5314 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5316 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5317 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5318 to what was transported.)
5320 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5322 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5323 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5324 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5325 spamd_address settings.
5327 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5328 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5329 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5330 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5331 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5333 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5335 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5336 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5337 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5338 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5339 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5341 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5342 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5344 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5345 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5346 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5347 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5348 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5349 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5350 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5353 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5354 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5355 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5356 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5357 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5358 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5359 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5362 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5364 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5365 driver and ACL definitions.
5367 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5368 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5370 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5371 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5372 understands it better than I do:
5374 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5375 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5377 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5378 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5379 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5380 => three warnings about OTP not working
5381 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5383 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5384 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5385 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5386 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5388 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5389 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5391 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5392 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5393 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5395 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5396 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5399 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5400 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5403 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5404 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5405 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5407 warn !verify = sender
5408 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5410 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5411 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5413 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5415 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5416 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5418 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5419 nomenclature these days.)
5421 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5422 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5424 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5425 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5426 . First host does not offer TLS;
5427 . First host accepts first address;
5428 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5429 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5430 . Second host accepts second address.
5431 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5432 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5435 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5436 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5437 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5438 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5439 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5441 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5442 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5444 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5445 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5447 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5448 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5449 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5451 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5452 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5455 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5457 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5458 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5459 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5460 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5461 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5462 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5463 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5465 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5466 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5467 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5468 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5469 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5471 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5472 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5475 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5476 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5477 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5478 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5479 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5480 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5482 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5484 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5485 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5486 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5487 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5488 printable escape sequences.
5490 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5491 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5494 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5495 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5498 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5499 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5500 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5501 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5502 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5504 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5505 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5506 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5508 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5510 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5511 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5514 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5515 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5516 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5517 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5518 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5519 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5520 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5521 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5522 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5525 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5526 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5527 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5528 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5532 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5533 ----------------------------------------
5535 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5536 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5537 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5538 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5539 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5540 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5543 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5544 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5545 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5546 historical information.
5552 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5554 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5555 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5557 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5558 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5561 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5562 filter fails to execute.
5564 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5565 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5566 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5567 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5568 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5570 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5572 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5573 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5574 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5575 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5577 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5578 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5579 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5580 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5581 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5583 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5585 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5587 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5588 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5589 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5590 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5592 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5593 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5594 sender verification.
5596 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5597 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5599 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5601 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5604 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5605 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5607 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5608 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5610 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5611 information about exactly what failed.
5613 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5615 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5616 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5617 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5619 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5620 It is now set to "smtps".
5622 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5623 ignore_target_hosts.
5625 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5626 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5627 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5628 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5631 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5632 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5633 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5635 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5636 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5637 wake it up if nothing else does.
5639 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5640 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5641 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5644 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5645 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5647 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5649 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5650 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5651 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5652 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5653 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5654 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5655 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5656 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5658 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5659 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5660 than one IP address.
5662 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5663 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5664 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5665 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5667 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5668 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5669 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5670 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5671 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5674 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5675 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5676 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5677 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5679 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5680 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5683 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5684 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5685 $sender_host_address.
5687 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5688 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5689 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5690 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5691 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5694 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5696 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5697 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5699 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5700 just the host names, not the priorities.
5702 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5703 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5704 controlled by a keyword.
5706 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5707 multiple records are returned.
5709 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5710 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5713 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5715 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5716 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5718 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5719 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5720 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5722 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5724 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5726 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5728 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5729 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5730 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5731 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5732 because the tests only now provoked it.
5734 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5735 (this can affect the format of dates).
5737 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5738 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5739 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5740 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5742 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5744 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5745 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5746 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5747 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5749 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5750 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5751 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5753 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5756 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5757 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5758 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5759 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5760 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5761 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5764 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5765 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5766 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5769 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5770 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5771 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5773 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5774 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5775 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5776 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5777 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5778 so I produce this patch..."
5780 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5781 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5784 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5785 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5786 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5787 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5790 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5792 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5793 long debug lines gets shown.
5795 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5796 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5798 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5800 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5801 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5802 of $primary_hostname.
5804 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5805 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5806 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5807 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5808 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5809 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5810 by change 4.50/55 above.
5812 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5813 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5814 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5815 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5816 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5817 running as the user.
5820 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5821 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5822 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5825 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5826 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5828 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5829 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5830 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5831 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5832 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5834 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5835 This has been fixed.
5837 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5838 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5839 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5840 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5843 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5845 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5846 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5847 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5848 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5850 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5851 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5853 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5854 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5855 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5857 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5858 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5859 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5862 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5863 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5864 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5866 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5867 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5868 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5869 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5871 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5872 during host lookups.
5874 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5875 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5877 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5879 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5880 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5881 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5882 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5883 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5886 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5887 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5889 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5890 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5891 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5893 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5895 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5896 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5897 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5898 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5899 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5900 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5903 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5904 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5905 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5906 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5907 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5909 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5912 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5914 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5915 "vacation" handling.
5917 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5918 OS variants using glibc.
5920 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5923 ----------------------------------------------------
5924 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5925 ----------------------------------------------------
5931 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5932 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5935 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5936 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5939 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5940 filter fails to execute.
5942 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5943 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5944 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5945 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5946 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5948 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5949 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5950 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5951 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5953 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5954 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5955 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5956 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5957 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5959 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5961 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5962 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5963 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5964 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5966 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5967 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5968 sender verification.
5970 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5971 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5973 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5974 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5976 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5977 ignore_target_hosts.
5979 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5980 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5981 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5982 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5985 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5986 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5987 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5989 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5990 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5991 wake it up if nothing else does.
5993 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5994 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5995 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5998 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5999 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6001 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6003 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6004 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6007 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6008 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6011 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6012 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6013 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6014 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6015 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6018 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6019 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6022 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6023 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6024 $sender_host_address.
6026 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6028 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6029 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6030 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6032 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6035 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6036 (this can affect the format of dates).
6038 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6039 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6040 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6041 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6043 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6044 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6045 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6047 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6048 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6049 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6050 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6052 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6053 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6054 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6056 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6059 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6060 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6061 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6062 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6063 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6064 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6067 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6068 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6069 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6070 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6073 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6074 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6075 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6076 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6077 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6078 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6079 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6081 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6082 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6083 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6084 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6085 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6086 running as the user.
6089 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6090 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6091 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6094 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6095 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6096 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6097 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6098 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6100 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6101 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6102 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6103 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6106 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6107 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6108 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6109 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6110 because the tests only now provoked it.
6116 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6117 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6118 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6119 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6120 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6121 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6122 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6124 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6125 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6128 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6130 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6132 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6133 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6136 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6137 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6138 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6139 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6140 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6142 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6143 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6145 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6147 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6149 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6152 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6153 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6155 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6156 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6157 affecting debugging statements).
6159 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6161 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6162 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6163 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6164 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6165 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6166 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6167 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6168 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6169 after the received time, and all would be well.
6171 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6172 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6173 condition in an expansion string.
6175 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6177 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6178 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6179 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6180 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6181 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6182 job under whatever limits there are.
6184 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6186 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6189 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6190 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6191 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6192 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6195 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6196 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6197 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6198 binary data in such strings.
6200 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6202 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6203 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6204 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6205 failure, which is pointless.
6207 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6209 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6211 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6212 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6213 Sender: header lines.
6215 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6216 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6217 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6219 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6220 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6221 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6222 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6223 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6226 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6227 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6228 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6229 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6230 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6232 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6233 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6234 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6237 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6238 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6240 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6241 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6243 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6245 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6247 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6249 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6252 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6254 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6256 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6257 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6258 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6259 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6261 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6262 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6268 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6269 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6270 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6272 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6273 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6274 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6275 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6276 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6277 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6279 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6280 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6281 verification failure".
6283 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6284 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6285 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6286 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6288 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6289 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6290 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6291 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6292 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6293 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6294 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6295 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6296 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6297 treated as a timeout.
6299 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6300 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6301 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6302 not set for Exim filters).
6304 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6305 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6306 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6308 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6310 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6311 try to make them clearer.
6313 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6314 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6316 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6318 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6320 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6321 only the Cygwin environment.
6323 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6324 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6325 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6326 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6327 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6329 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6330 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6331 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6332 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6333 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6334 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6335 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6337 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6338 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6340 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6342 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6343 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6344 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6346 To: susanne@some.where
6348 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6349 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6350 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6351 of addresses in From: header lines).
6353 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6354 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6355 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6357 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6358 treated as non-personal.
6360 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6361 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6363 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6365 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6367 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6368 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6369 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6371 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6372 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6374 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6375 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6376 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6377 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6378 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6379 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6381 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6382 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6383 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6384 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6385 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6386 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6387 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6388 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6390 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6392 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6393 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6395 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6396 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6397 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6399 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6400 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6402 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6403 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6404 rather than long int.
6406 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6408 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6414 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6415 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6416 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6417 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6418 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6419 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6425 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6426 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6428 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6429 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6430 socklen_t is defined.
6432 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6435 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6438 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6439 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6440 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6441 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6442 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6444 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6445 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6446 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6447 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6449 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6450 of flapping under certain conditions.
6452 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6453 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6454 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6456 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6458 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6460 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6461 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6462 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6463 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6465 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6466 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6467 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6468 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6469 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6470 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6471 preserved with the message after it was received.
6473 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6474 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6475 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6476 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6477 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6478 test suite worked just fine.
6480 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6481 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6482 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6484 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6485 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6488 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6489 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6490 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6491 does not fully solve it.
6493 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6494 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6495 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6496 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6497 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6499 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6500 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6501 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6503 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6504 string, for example:
6506 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6508 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6509 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6510 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6511 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6512 the routers could not see them.
6514 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6515 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6517 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6518 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6521 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6522 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6523 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6524 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6525 that needed quoting.
6527 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6528 was not being matched caselessly.
6530 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6533 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6534 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6535 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6536 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6537 when use_sender is false.
6539 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6541 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6543 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6545 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6546 the configuration file.
6548 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6549 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6551 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6553 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6554 bytes in the message body.
6556 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6557 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6560 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6562 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6564 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6565 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6566 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6567 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6574 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6575 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6577 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6578 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6579 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6580 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6581 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6583 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6584 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6586 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6587 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6588 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6590 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6591 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6592 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6594 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6597 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6598 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6599 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6600 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6601 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6602 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6603 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6609 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6610 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6611 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6612 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6613 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6614 default (and expected) setting.
6616 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6617 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6618 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6619 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6621 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6622 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6624 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6627 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6628 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6629 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6630 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6631 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6632 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6634 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6635 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6636 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6638 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6639 part (NOT match_host).
6641 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6643 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6644 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6645 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6646 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6647 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6648 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6649 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6650 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6651 the same named file.
6653 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6654 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6657 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6658 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6659 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6660 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6663 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6664 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6665 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6667 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6669 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6671 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6673 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6674 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6676 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6677 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6678 before starting the TLS session.
6680 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6682 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6683 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6685 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6686 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6687 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6688 colon in the middle).
6694 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6695 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6696 multiple configurations are in use.
6698 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6699 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6700 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6701 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6702 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6703 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6705 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6706 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6708 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6709 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6710 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6712 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6713 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6716 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6717 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6719 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6721 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6722 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6724 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6732 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6733 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6734 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6735 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6736 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6738 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6741 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6742 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6743 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6744 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6745 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6746 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6748 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6749 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6750 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6751 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6752 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6753 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6754 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6757 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6758 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6759 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6760 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6761 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6763 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6765 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6766 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6767 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6769 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6771 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6772 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6773 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6776 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6777 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6779 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6780 Three changes have been made:
6782 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6783 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6784 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6785 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6786 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6788 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6791 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6792 the modified behaviour.
6798 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6801 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6802 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6804 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6805 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6806 try to track down a specific problem.
6808 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6809 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6810 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6812 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6815 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6816 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6817 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6818 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6819 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6820 some earlier ones do not.
6822 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6824 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6825 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6826 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6827 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6828 address literals are enabled, of course).
6830 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6832 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6833 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6834 by a command such as
6838 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6840 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6842 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6843 remained set. It is now erased.
6845 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6846 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6848 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6849 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6850 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6851 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6852 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6853 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6854 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6855 appropriate error code.
6857 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6858 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6859 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6860 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6861 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6862 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6864 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6865 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6866 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6868 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6869 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6870 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6871 terminate the header.
6873 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6874 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6875 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6877 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6878 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6879 (4.30/29). In particular:
6881 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6884 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6885 to write a maildirsize file.
6887 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6888 the transport, the new value overrides.
6890 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6893 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6894 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6895 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6898 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6899 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6900 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6903 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6904 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6905 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6907 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6908 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6911 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6912 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6913 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6915 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6917 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6919 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6921 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6922 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6925 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6926 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6927 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6928 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6929 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6930 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6931 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6934 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6935 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6936 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6937 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6938 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6941 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6942 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6943 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6944 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6945 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6946 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6947 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6948 cached value only when the same options are set.
6950 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6952 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6953 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6954 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6955 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6956 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6958 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6959 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6960 it is clearly obsolete.
6962 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6965 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6966 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6967 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6970 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6971 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6972 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6973 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6974 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6976 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6977 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6978 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6979 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6981 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6983 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6985 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6986 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6989 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6990 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6991 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6992 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6993 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6994 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6997 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6998 with the -f command-line option.
7000 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7001 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7002 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7003 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7004 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7005 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7007 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7008 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7011 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7012 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7013 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7014 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7015 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7016 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7017 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7018 buffer is too small.
7020 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7021 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7023 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7024 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7025 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7026 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7027 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7028 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7029 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7030 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7031 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7033 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7034 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7035 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7037 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7038 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7041 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7042 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7043 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7044 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7045 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7047 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7048 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7049 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7050 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7053 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7055 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7057 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7058 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7060 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7061 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7062 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7064 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7065 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7066 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7067 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7068 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7070 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7071 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7072 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7073 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7074 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7075 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7076 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7078 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7079 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7080 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7081 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7082 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7083 the test of how many are available.
7085 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7086 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7087 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7088 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7089 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7090 new message is started.
7092 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7093 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7095 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7096 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7098 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7099 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7100 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7103 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7104 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7105 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7106 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7107 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7108 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7109 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7111 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7112 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7113 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7114 interpreted as octal.
7116 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7119 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7120 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7121 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7122 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7123 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7124 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7126 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7127 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7128 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7129 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7131 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7132 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7133 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7134 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7136 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7137 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7140 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7141 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7143 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7145 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7146 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7147 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7148 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7150 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7151 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7152 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7153 supplied", which is not helpful.
7155 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7156 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7157 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7159 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7160 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7161 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7162 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7163 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7164 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7165 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7166 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7168 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7169 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7170 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7171 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7172 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7174 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7175 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7176 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7177 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7178 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7179 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7181 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7182 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7183 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7185 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7187 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7188 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7189 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7192 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7194 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7195 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7196 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7197 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7198 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7199 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7200 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7201 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7203 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7204 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7205 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7206 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7207 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7209 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7212 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7213 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7214 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7215 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7216 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7217 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7218 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7219 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7220 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7226 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7227 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7228 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7230 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7233 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7234 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7235 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7237 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7238 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7239 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7240 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7241 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7242 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7244 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7245 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7246 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7247 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7248 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7249 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7250 the Exim test suite.
7252 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7253 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7254 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7255 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7257 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7258 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7259 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7260 specify it in this variable.
7262 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7263 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7264 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7265 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7267 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7268 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7269 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7270 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7272 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7273 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7274 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7275 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7276 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7278 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7280 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7283 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7284 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7285 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7286 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7287 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7289 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7290 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7292 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7293 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7294 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7295 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7296 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7298 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7299 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7301 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7302 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7303 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7305 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7306 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7308 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7309 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7311 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7312 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7313 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7315 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7316 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7318 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7319 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7320 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7321 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7323 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7325 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7326 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7327 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7328 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7330 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7332 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7333 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7335 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7337 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7338 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7339 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7340 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7341 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7342 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7344 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7346 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7347 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7350 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7352 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7353 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7355 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7356 550 Sender verify failed
7358 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7359 the final line of the response.
7361 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7362 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7363 all other user lookups.
7365 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7368 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7369 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7370 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7371 result into an int without checking.
7373 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7374 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7375 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7377 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7378 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7379 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7380 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7382 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7385 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7386 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7388 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7389 to the empty sender.
7391 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7392 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7393 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7394 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7395 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7396 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7397 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7400 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7401 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7402 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7403 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7406 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7407 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7409 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7412 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7413 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7415 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7417 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7418 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7421 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7422 as soon as it is encountered.
7424 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7426 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7429 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7430 recognizes a tab character.
7432 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7433 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7434 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7435 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7437 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7439 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7442 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7444 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7446 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7447 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7450 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7451 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7452 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7453 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7454 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7456 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7457 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7459 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7460 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7461 list (.included file names were always shown).
7463 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7464 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7465 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7468 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7469 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7471 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7473 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7475 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7477 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7478 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7479 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7480 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7481 failures to open the logs.
7483 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7484 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7485 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7486 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7487 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7488 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7489 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7495 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7496 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7497 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7500 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7501 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7502 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7504 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7505 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7506 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7508 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7509 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7510 causing some misleading effects.
7512 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7513 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7514 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7516 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7517 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7518 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7519 queue-runner function directly.
7525 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7528 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7529 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7530 was always written to the default place.
7532 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7533 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7534 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7536 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7538 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7540 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7541 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7542 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7544 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7545 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7548 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7549 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7550 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7552 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7553 command line option is disabled.
7555 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7556 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7558 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7560 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7562 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7563 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7565 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7567 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7568 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7569 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7570 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7571 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7572 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7574 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7575 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7578 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7579 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7581 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7582 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7584 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7585 received was valid base64.
7587 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7588 name of the variable that was being set.
7590 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7592 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7593 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7594 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7595 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7596 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7597 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7599 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7601 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7602 nor realm was specified.
7604 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7605 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7606 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7607 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7609 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7610 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7611 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7613 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7614 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7615 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7617 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7618 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7619 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7620 some systems use these upper case variants.
7622 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7623 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7624 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7625 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7627 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7629 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7630 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7632 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7633 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7636 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7638 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7639 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7640 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7641 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7643 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7646 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7647 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7648 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7650 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7651 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7653 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7654 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7655 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7656 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7658 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7659 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7660 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7662 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7664 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7665 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7666 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7667 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7670 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7671 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7672 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7674 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7676 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7677 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7679 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7680 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7682 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7683 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7684 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7685 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7686 when emails are that large.
7693 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7694 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7696 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7697 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7698 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7700 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7701 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7702 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7704 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7705 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7706 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7707 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7708 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7710 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7711 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7712 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7713 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7714 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7717 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7718 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7719 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7720 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7721 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7722 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7723 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7724 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7725 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7726 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7727 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7728 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7729 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7730 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7732 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7733 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7736 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7737 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7738 error should be diagnosed.
7740 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7741 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7742 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7743 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7744 appeared instead of "NULL".
7746 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7747 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7748 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7749 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7750 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7751 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7754 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7755 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7756 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7762 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7763 or receiver verification errors.
7765 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7768 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7769 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7770 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7771 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7773 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7774 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7775 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7776 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7777 shouldn't happen again.
7779 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7780 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7781 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7783 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7784 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7786 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7788 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7789 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7791 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7792 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7795 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7796 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7797 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7799 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7800 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7801 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7802 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7804 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7805 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7806 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7807 to define what should happen).
7809 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7810 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7811 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7813 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7815 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7817 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7818 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7820 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7821 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7822 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7823 structure in all cases.
7825 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7826 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7827 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7828 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7830 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7831 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7834 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7835 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7837 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7838 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7840 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7841 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7842 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7844 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7845 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7846 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7848 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7849 the book and for uniformity.
7851 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7853 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7854 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7855 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7856 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7857 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7858 non-existent command as the problem.
7860 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7861 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7862 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7864 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7866 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7867 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7868 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7870 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7871 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7872 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7873 timestamps using strftime().
7875 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7876 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7878 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7879 transport-time rewrites.
7881 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7882 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7883 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7884 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7886 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7887 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7889 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7890 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7891 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7892 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7895 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7896 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7897 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7898 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7899 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7900 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7901 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7903 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7904 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7905 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7906 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7907 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7909 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7910 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7911 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7912 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7913 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7914 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7915 remaining text gets split now.
7917 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7918 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7919 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7920 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7922 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7923 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7924 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7925 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7928 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7929 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7930 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7931 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7932 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7933 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7934 passed through if needed.
7936 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7937 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7938 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7939 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7940 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7941 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7943 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7944 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7945 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7946 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7947 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7949 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7950 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7951 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7952 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7953 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7955 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7956 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7959 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7960 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7961 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7962 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7963 mayhem of various kinds.
7965 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7966 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7967 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7968 the right test for positive values.
7970 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7971 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7972 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7973 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7974 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7975 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7976 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7977 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7978 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7979 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7982 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7985 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7986 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7989 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7990 the existing equality matching.
7992 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7993 dealing with inode numbers.
7995 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7996 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7997 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7999 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8000 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8001 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8002 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8005 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8006 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8007 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8008 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8009 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8010 relay addresses has also been removed.
8012 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8014 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8015 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8016 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8018 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8019 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8020 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8021 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8022 processing applies to CR:
8024 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8025 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8027 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8028 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8029 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8030 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8032 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8033 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8034 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8036 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8037 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8038 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8039 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8040 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8041 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8044 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8047 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8048 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8049 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8050 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8053 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8055 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8057 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8059 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8060 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8061 not considered personal.
8063 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8065 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8067 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8069 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8070 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8071 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8072 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8073 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8074 header lines, and spool format errors.
8076 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8077 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8078 for more flexibility.
8080 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8081 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8082 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8084 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8087 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8088 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8089 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8090 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8091 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8092 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8093 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8094 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8095 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8097 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8098 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8099 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8100 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8101 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8102 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8103 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8105 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8106 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8107 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8109 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8110 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8111 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8112 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8113 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8114 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8115 instead of killing the process with assert().
8117 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8118 than Unicode encoding.
8120 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8121 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8122 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8123 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8125 77. Added process_log_path.
8127 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8128 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8130 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8131 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8133 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8134 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8135 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8137 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8138 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8139 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8140 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8141 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8144 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8145 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8148 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8149 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8150 they will be used during message reception.
8156 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.