1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
177 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
178 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
179 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
181 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
183 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
184 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
187 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
188 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
189 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
191 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
193 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
195 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
196 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
197 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
199 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
200 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
201 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
203 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
204 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
206 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
207 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
210 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
211 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
212 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
213 should both provide the file and set the option.
214 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
216 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
217 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
219 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
220 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
221 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
222 Authentication-Results: header.
224 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
225 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
226 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
227 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
229 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
230 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
231 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
232 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
233 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
234 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
235 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
237 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
238 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
239 copies while it is still usable.
241 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
242 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
243 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
245 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
246 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
248 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
249 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
250 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
251 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
253 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
254 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
255 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
258 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
259 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
260 - the pipe transport command
261 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
262 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
264 - paths used by single-key lookups
265 Previously this was permitted.
267 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
268 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
269 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
270 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
272 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
273 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
274 support larger malloc requests.
276 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
277 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
278 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
279 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
281 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
282 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
283 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
284 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
287 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
288 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
289 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
290 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
291 data being length-specified.
293 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
294 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
295 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
296 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
298 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
299 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
300 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
301 not being properly tracked.
303 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
304 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
305 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
306 minute could be seen.
308 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
309 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
310 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
312 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
313 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
315 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
316 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
319 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
321 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
322 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
324 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
325 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
326 filesystem as sufficient validation.
328 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
329 argument is supplied.
331 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
332 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
333 access under Exim's current working directory.
335 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
336 Previously no event was raised.
338 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
339 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
340 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
343 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
344 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
345 the size of the signature hash.
347 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
348 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
350 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
351 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
352 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
353 dropped between messages.
355 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
356 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
357 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
358 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
360 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
361 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
362 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
363 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
364 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
365 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
366 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
367 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
368 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
370 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
371 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
372 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
374 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
375 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
382 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
383 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
385 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
386 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
389 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
392 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
394 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
396 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
397 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
399 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
400 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
401 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
402 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
403 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
404 suitably configured).
406 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
407 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
409 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
410 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
413 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
414 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
416 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
417 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
418 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
419 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
422 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
423 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
424 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
426 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
429 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
430 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
432 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
433 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
434 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
435 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
438 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
439 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
440 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
441 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
444 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
445 shared (NFS) environment.
447 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
448 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
451 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
452 on some platforms for bit 31.
454 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
455 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
456 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
457 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
458 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
459 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
460 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
461 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
463 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
465 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
466 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
468 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
469 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
472 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
473 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
476 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
477 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
478 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
481 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
482 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
483 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
485 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
486 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
487 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
488 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
489 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
491 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
494 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
495 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
496 be requested on all coneections.
498 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
499 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
501 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
503 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
504 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
505 one for these; the option was ignored.
507 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
508 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
509 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
510 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
512 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
513 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
514 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
517 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
518 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
519 error ignored was made.
521 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
523 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
524 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
525 values, to catch one form of exploit.
527 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
528 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
529 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
531 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
532 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
535 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
536 them in our smtp response.
538 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
539 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
540 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
541 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
542 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
544 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
545 link count into consideration.
547 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
548 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
550 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
551 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
552 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
555 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
557 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
559 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
561 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
562 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
563 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
564 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
566 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
568 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
569 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
572 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
573 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
574 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
576 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
577 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
578 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
580 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
581 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
582 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
583 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
584 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
585 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
586 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
587 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
589 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
590 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
591 resulted in an indefinite loop.
593 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
594 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
595 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
601 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
602 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
604 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
605 non-signal-safe functions being used.
607 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
608 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
609 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
611 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
612 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
613 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
615 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
616 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
617 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
618 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
619 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
622 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
623 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
625 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
626 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
627 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
628 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
629 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
630 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
631 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
633 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
634 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
636 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
639 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
640 Previously this would segfault.
642 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
645 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
646 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
647 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
648 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
649 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
650 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
652 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
654 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
655 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
656 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
657 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
659 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
661 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
662 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
663 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
664 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
666 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
668 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
670 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
671 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
672 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
674 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
675 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
676 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
678 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
680 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
681 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
682 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
683 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
685 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
686 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
687 promised '?' replacement.
689 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
691 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
692 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
693 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
694 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
695 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
697 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
698 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
699 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
701 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
702 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
703 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
705 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
706 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
707 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
709 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
710 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
711 hope that is portable enough.
713 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
714 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
715 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
716 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
718 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
719 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
720 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
722 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
723 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
724 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
725 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
727 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
728 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
730 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
731 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
732 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
733 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
735 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
736 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
737 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
739 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
740 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
741 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
742 the previous G, M, k.
744 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
745 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
748 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
749 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
750 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
751 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
753 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
754 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
756 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
757 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
758 off past the nul-terimation.
760 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
761 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
762 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
763 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
764 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
766 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
768 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
769 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
770 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
773 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
774 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
776 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
777 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
778 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
780 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
781 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
782 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
784 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
785 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
791 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
792 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
793 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
794 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
795 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
796 be defined in redis_servers.
798 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
799 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
801 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
802 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
803 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
804 extant use locations.
806 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
807 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
809 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
810 Previously only the last row was returned.
812 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
813 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
814 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
815 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
818 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
819 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
820 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
821 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
822 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
823 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
824 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
825 Main pool for expansions.
826 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
827 active in the testsuite.
828 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
830 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
831 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
832 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
833 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
836 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
837 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
840 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
841 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
842 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
844 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
845 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
846 ClamAV interface method is removed.
848 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
849 rows affected is given instead).
851 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
852 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
854 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
855 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
856 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
857 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
858 for all multi-message initiating connections.
860 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
861 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
862 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
864 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
865 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
866 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
867 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
870 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
871 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
872 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
875 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
877 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
878 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
880 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
881 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
882 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
884 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
885 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
886 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
889 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
890 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
892 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
893 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
894 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
896 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
897 for the build is renamed.
899 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
900 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
901 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
903 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
904 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
905 result replacing the original.
907 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
908 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
909 and the resources needed to be freed.
911 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
913 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
916 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
917 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
918 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
919 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
921 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
922 length value. Previously this would segfault.
924 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
925 newer versions of the scanner.
927 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
928 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
929 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
930 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
931 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
932 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
933 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
935 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
936 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
937 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
938 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
939 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
940 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
941 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
942 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
943 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
944 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
946 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
947 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
949 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
951 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
952 allows proper process termination in container environments.
954 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
955 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
957 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
958 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
959 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
961 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
962 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
963 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
964 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
966 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
967 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
970 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
971 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
973 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
974 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
975 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
976 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
977 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
979 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
980 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
983 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
984 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
986 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
989 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
990 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
991 "bare" representation.
993 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
994 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
995 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
996 corrupted the output.
1002 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1003 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1004 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1005 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1007 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1008 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1010 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1011 This permits better logging.
1013 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1014 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1015 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1016 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1017 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1018 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1020 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1021 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1024 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1025 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1026 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1028 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1029 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1031 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1032 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1033 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1034 client, there is no benefit for these.
1035 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1036 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1037 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1040 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1041 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1043 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1044 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1045 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1047 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1048 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1050 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1051 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1052 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1053 signature and again for transmission.
1055 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1056 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1057 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1059 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1060 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1061 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1062 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1063 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1064 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1065 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1067 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1068 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1069 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1070 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1072 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1073 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1074 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1075 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1076 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1077 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1080 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1081 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1082 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1083 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1086 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1087 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1088 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1089 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1092 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1093 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1096 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1097 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1098 banner-time rejection.
1100 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1103 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1104 is the name of a transport.
1107 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1109 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1110 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1112 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1113 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1114 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1117 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1118 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1119 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1120 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1122 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1123 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1124 initial verify call returned a defer.
1126 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1127 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1129 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1130 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1132 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1133 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1135 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1136 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1138 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1139 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1142 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1143 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1145 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1146 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1147 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1149 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1150 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1151 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1152 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1154 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1155 and confused the parent.
1157 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1158 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1160 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1163 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1164 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1165 out-of-order delivery.
1167 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1168 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1169 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1172 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1173 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1176 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1177 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1178 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1180 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1181 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1182 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1183 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1184 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1185 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1187 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1188 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1189 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1191 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1192 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1193 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1195 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1196 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1197 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1198 though a different problem.
1204 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1205 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1207 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1209 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1210 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1212 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1213 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1215 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1216 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1217 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1218 before acknowledging the chunk.
1220 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1221 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1222 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1224 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1225 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1226 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1229 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1230 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1231 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1233 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1234 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1236 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1237 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1238 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1239 body hash calculated value.
1241 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1242 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1243 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1245 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1247 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1248 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1250 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1251 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1252 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1254 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1255 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1256 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1257 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1258 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1259 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1261 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1262 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1263 past that check, despite the cost.
1265 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1266 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1267 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1269 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1270 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1271 TLS library to consume.
1273 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1275 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1277 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1278 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1279 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1280 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1281 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1282 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1283 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1285 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1287 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1289 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1290 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1291 should be warning-free.
1293 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1295 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1296 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1298 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1299 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1300 general solution here.
1302 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1303 already-broken messages in the queue.
1305 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1307 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1313 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1314 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1316 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1317 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1318 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1320 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1321 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1322 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1323 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1324 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1325 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1326 if one fails this test.
1327 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1328 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1330 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1331 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1333 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1334 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1336 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1337 in rewrites and routers.
1339 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1340 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1342 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1343 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1345 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1347 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1350 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1351 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1352 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1353 connection after a verify cache hit.
1354 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1356 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1357 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1359 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1360 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1361 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1362 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1363 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1365 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1366 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1368 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1369 Previously they were not counted.
1371 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1372 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1373 that needed the lookup.
1375 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1376 distinguished as "(=".
1378 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1379 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1381 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1383 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1384 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1386 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1387 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1389 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1390 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1393 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1394 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1395 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1396 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1398 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1400 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1401 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1402 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1404 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1405 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1406 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1409 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1410 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1411 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1414 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1415 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1416 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1418 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1419 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1422 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1424 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1425 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1427 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1428 are not in the system include path.
1430 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1431 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1432 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1433 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1435 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1436 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1437 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1439 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1441 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1442 an incoming connection.
1444 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1447 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1448 fallback to "prime256v1".
1450 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1451 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1457 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1458 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1459 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1460 client dropping the TLS connection.
1462 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1463 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1465 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1466 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1467 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1468 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1471 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1472 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1473 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1474 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1475 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1476 check on the next write.
1478 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1479 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1480 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1481 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1482 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1484 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1485 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1487 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1488 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1489 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1491 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1492 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1493 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1494 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1496 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1497 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1499 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1500 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1502 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1503 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1504 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1507 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1509 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1511 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1513 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1514 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1516 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1517 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1519 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1521 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1522 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1524 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1526 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1527 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1529 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1531 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1532 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1533 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1534 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1535 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1536 they will retry in-clear.
1537 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1538 at installation time.
1540 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1541 with the $config_file variable.
1543 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1544 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1545 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1546 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1547 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1549 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1550 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1551 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1552 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1553 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1555 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1557 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1558 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1559 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1560 list order is no longer honoured.
1562 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1563 for DKIM processing.
1565 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1566 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1568 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1569 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1570 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1571 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1573 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1574 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1576 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1577 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1579 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1580 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1582 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1584 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1585 cached by the daemon.
1587 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1588 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1590 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1591 keys are given for lookup.
1593 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1594 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1595 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1596 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1598 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1599 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1600 server-side so match that on older versions.
1602 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1603 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1604 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1606 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1607 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1609 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1610 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1611 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1612 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1613 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1614 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1615 initial truncated version.
1617 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1619 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1621 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1622 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1624 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1626 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1628 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1629 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1632 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1633 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1636 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1637 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1639 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1640 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1643 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1644 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1645 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1647 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1648 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1649 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1650 extraction. Accept either.
1656 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1659 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1661 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1664 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1665 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1666 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1667 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1669 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1670 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1671 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1673 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1674 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1675 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1678 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1681 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1682 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1683 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1684 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1685 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1687 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1688 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1689 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1691 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1693 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1694 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1696 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1697 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1699 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1702 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1703 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1705 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1706 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1707 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1709 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1710 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1711 specify a port-range.
1713 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1714 timeout value per server.
1716 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1717 now have the list separator specified.
1719 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1722 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1725 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1727 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1728 rather than the verbs used.
1730 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1731 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1733 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1735 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1736 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1738 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1739 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1741 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1742 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1744 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1746 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1748 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1749 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1750 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1751 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1753 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1755 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1756 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1758 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1759 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1761 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1763 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1765 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1767 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1768 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1770 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1771 added for tls authenticator.
1773 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1779 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1780 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1781 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1782 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1783 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1784 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1785 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1787 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1788 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1789 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1790 function when detected.
1792 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1793 cause callback expansion.
1795 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1796 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1797 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1798 instead of bool when processing it.
1800 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1801 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1803 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1805 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1807 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1809 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1810 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1812 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1813 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1814 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1815 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1816 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1817 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1819 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1820 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1823 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1824 version 3.3.6 or later.
1826 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1827 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1828 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1829 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1830 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1831 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1834 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1835 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1837 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1838 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1839 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1842 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1843 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1844 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1846 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1847 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1849 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1850 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1853 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1855 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1856 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1858 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1859 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1862 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1864 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1867 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1868 output list separator was used.
1873 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1874 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1877 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1878 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1880 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1882 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1883 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1889 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1891 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1892 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1893 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1894 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1895 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1896 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1898 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1899 utilities have not been installed.
1901 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1902 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1904 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1905 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1907 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1908 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1909 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1910 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1912 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1914 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1915 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1917 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1920 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1922 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1923 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1924 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1926 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1927 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1928 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1929 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1930 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1931 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1933 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1935 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1936 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1938 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1941 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1943 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1945 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1946 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1948 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1949 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1951 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1953 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1955 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1956 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1958 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1959 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1960 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1962 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1963 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1964 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1967 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1969 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1970 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1973 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1974 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1977 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1978 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1980 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1981 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1983 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1985 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1986 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1987 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1989 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1990 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1992 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1993 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1996 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1997 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1998 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2000 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2002 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2003 Christian Aistleitner.
2005 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2007 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2008 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2010 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2011 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2013 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2014 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2016 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2017 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2019 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2020 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2022 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2023 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2024 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2026 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2028 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2029 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2032 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2034 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2035 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2042 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2044 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2045 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2047 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2050 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2051 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2054 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2056 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2057 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2058 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2059 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2060 using channel bindings instead).
2062 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2063 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2064 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2065 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2066 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2069 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2071 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2073 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2074 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2076 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2077 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2078 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2080 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2082 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2084 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2085 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2087 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2089 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2091 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2093 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2094 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2096 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2098 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2099 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2102 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2103 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2105 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2106 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2109 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2111 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2113 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2114 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2116 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2119 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2120 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2122 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2123 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2125 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2127 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2129 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2132 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2135 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2137 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2138 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2139 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2140 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2142 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2144 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2145 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2146 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2147 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2150 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2151 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2152 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2154 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2155 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2156 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2157 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2159 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2160 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2161 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2162 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2163 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2164 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2165 delivery, as in LMTP.
2167 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2168 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2170 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2172 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2176 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2177 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2178 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2179 username as equal to the username.
2181 This change corrects that bug.
2183 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2184 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2185 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2187 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2189 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2190 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2191 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2192 NULL dereference and crash.
2194 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2196 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2197 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2198 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2200 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2202 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2203 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2204 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2205 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2206 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2207 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2208 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2209 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2210 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2211 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2212 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2214 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2215 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2217 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2218 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2221 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2222 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2223 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2224 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2225 an empty string is now equivalent.
2227 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2228 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2229 not performing validation itself.
2231 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2232 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2234 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2237 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2239 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2240 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2241 other false fix of the same issue.
2242 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2245 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2246 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2248 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2249 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2250 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2252 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2253 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2254 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2256 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2258 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2260 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2261 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2263 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2266 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2267 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2268 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2269 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2270 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2272 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2273 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2275 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2276 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2279 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2280 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2281 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2282 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2284 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2286 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2287 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2288 from multiple comments on this bug.
2290 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2292 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2293 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2296 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2297 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2299 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2300 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2306 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2308 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2314 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2315 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2316 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2318 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2320 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2323 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2325 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2327 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2329 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2330 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2332 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2333 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2335 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2336 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2338 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2339 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2340 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2342 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2344 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2345 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2347 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2349 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2351 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2352 non-compliant senders.
2353 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2355 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2356 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2357 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2359 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2360 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2361 in spool file corruption.
2363 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2364 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2365 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2368 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2369 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2370 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2372 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2373 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2375 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2377 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2379 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2381 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2382 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2383 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2385 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2386 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2387 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2388 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2390 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2391 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2393 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2394 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2395 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2396 resolver implementation change.
2398 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2399 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2401 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2403 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2405 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2406 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2408 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2409 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2411 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2412 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2414 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2415 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2416 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2417 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2418 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2420 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2422 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2423 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2424 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2426 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2428 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2429 read-only, out of scope).
2430 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2432 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2433 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2434 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2435 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2437 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2439 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2440 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2441 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2442 real issues in debug logging.
2444 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2445 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2447 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2448 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2449 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2451 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2452 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2453 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2456 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2457 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2459 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2460 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2461 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2462 needs to override this, it can.
2464 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2465 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2466 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2468 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2469 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2470 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2471 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2473 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2479 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2480 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2482 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2484 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2487 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2488 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2490 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2491 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2492 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2494 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2495 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2496 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2497 not safe for signals.
2499 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2500 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2501 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2502 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2505 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2507 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2508 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2509 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2510 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2511 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2513 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2514 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2515 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2516 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2517 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2518 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2520 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2521 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2522 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2523 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2525 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2526 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2527 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2528 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2530 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2531 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2532 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2533 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2534 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2535 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2536 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2537 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2538 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2540 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2541 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2542 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2543 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2545 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2546 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2547 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2548 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2549 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2550 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2551 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2552 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2553 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2554 details in the main documentation.
2556 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2558 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2560 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2561 repository when doing development or release builds.
2563 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2564 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2566 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2567 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2570 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2572 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2573 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2575 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2576 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2578 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2579 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2581 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2582 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2584 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2585 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2587 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2589 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2592 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2593 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2594 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2596 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2598 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2600 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2601 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2607 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2609 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2610 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2612 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2614 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2616 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2619 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2620 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2622 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2623 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2625 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2626 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2628 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2631 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2632 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2634 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2635 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2636 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2637 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2639 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2640 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2646 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2649 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2650 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2651 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2653 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2654 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2656 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2657 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2658 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2660 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2661 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2663 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2664 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2666 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2667 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2669 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2670 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2672 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2673 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2675 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2678 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2679 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2681 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2682 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2684 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2685 SQL string expansion failure details.
2686 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2688 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2689 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2691 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2692 extern declarations in function scope.
2693 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2695 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2696 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2697 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2700 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2701 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2703 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2704 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2706 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2707 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2709 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2710 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2712 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2713 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2716 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2718 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2720 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2721 Patch by Simon Arlott
2723 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2724 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2730 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2731 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2733 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2734 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2736 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2738 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2739 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2740 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2742 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2743 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2744 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2746 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2747 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2748 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2749 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2751 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2752 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2753 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2754 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2756 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2757 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2758 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2761 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2764 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2765 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2766 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2767 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2768 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2774 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2775 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2776 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2778 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2779 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2781 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2783 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2785 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2787 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2789 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2791 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2792 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2793 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2794 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2796 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2797 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2798 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2799 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2800 more caution in buffer sizes.
2802 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2804 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2806 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2808 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2810 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2812 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2814 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2816 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2817 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2818 ignore trailing whitespace.
2820 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2822 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2825 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2826 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2828 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2829 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2830 Notification from John Horne.
2832 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2835 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2836 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2839 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2842 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2843 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2844 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2846 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2847 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2848 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2851 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2852 option (effectively making it always true).
2854 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2855 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2857 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2858 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2860 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2861 run-time user, instead of root.
2863 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2864 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2866 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2867 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2870 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2871 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2872 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2874 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2876 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2882 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2883 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2886 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2887 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2890 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2891 Patch from Alain Williams
2893 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2895 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2896 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2898 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2899 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2901 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2903 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2905 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2906 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2908 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2910 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2912 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2913 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2914 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2916 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2917 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2919 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2920 Patch by Simon Arlott
2922 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2923 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2929 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2931 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2933 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2935 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2937 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2943 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2944 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2946 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2947 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2950 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2951 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2952 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2954 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2955 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2957 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2958 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2959 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2960 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2962 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2963 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2964 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2966 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2968 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2970 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2971 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2973 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2975 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2976 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2977 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2978 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2980 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2981 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2983 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2985 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2987 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2988 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2990 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2991 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2993 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2994 that they are available at delivery time.
2996 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2998 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2999 incoming_port log selectors.
3001 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3002 setting expands to an empty string.
3004 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3005 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3007 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3008 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3010 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3011 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3013 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3014 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3016 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3017 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3019 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3020 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3022 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3024 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3025 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3027 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3028 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3030 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3032 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3033 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3035 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3037 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3039 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3042 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3043 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3045 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3046 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3048 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3049 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3051 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3052 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3054 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3055 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3057 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3058 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3060 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3061 plus update to original patch.
3063 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3065 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3066 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3068 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3070 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3072 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3074 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3076 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3077 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3079 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3080 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3082 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3083 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3085 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3086 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3088 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3090 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3092 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3094 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3100 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3101 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3102 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3104 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3105 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3106 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3107 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3108 build errors in sieve.c.
3110 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3111 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3112 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3114 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3116 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3118 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3120 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3126 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3128 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3129 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3130 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3131 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3132 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3133 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3134 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3135 for iplsearch lookups.
3137 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3138 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3139 previously such lookups could never work.
3141 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3142 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3143 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3145 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3148 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3149 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3150 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3151 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3152 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3153 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3155 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3156 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3158 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3159 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3160 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3161 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3162 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3163 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3165 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3168 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3170 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3171 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3174 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3175 by clients under certain conditions.
3177 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3178 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3180 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3182 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3183 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3185 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3187 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3189 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3191 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3192 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3194 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3196 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3197 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3199 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3201 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3203 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3204 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3205 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3206 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3208 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3209 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3210 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3212 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3213 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3215 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3217 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3219 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3221 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3222 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3223 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3229 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3230 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3233 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3234 issue a MAIL command.
3236 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3238 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3240 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3241 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3242 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3243 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3244 item. This has been fixed.
3246 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3247 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3249 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3250 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3252 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3253 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3254 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3256 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3258 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3259 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3260 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3261 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3262 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3264 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3265 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3266 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3268 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3269 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3270 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3271 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3273 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3275 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3277 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3278 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3279 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3280 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3281 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3283 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3285 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3286 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3287 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3290 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3292 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3294 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3296 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3298 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3300 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3301 no_callout_flush is set.
3303 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3304 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3305 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3308 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3310 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3311 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3312 other ACL rejections are.
3314 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3315 with slight modification.
3317 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3318 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3320 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3321 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3324 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3325 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3327 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3329 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3330 expansion side effects.
3332 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3333 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3334 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3337 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3338 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3339 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3341 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3342 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3343 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3344 were accidentally chopped off.
3346 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3347 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3348 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3349 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3350 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3351 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3352 pipelining has not been advertised.
3354 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3356 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3357 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3358 This has been fixed.
3360 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3361 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3362 reported on Solaris.
3364 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3365 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3366 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3367 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3368 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3369 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3370 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3372 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3375 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3377 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3379 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3380 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3381 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3382 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3383 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3384 criteria to be more general.
3386 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3387 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3388 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3389 host_all_ignored option.
3391 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3392 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3393 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3394 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3395 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3396 is what is supposed to happen).
3398 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3399 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3400 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3401 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3402 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3405 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3406 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3407 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3408 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3409 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3410 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3413 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3415 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3416 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3418 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3419 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3421 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3423 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3425 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3426 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3427 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3428 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3429 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3430 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3431 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3432 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3433 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3434 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3435 least in a lot of common cases.
3437 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3438 advertised in response to EHLO.
3444 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3445 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3447 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3448 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3450 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3451 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3452 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3454 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3455 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3456 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3457 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3458 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3464 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3465 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3468 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3469 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3470 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3472 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3473 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3474 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3475 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3476 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3477 rather than extend the field.
3483 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3484 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3485 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3486 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3489 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3490 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3491 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3493 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3494 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3495 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3497 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3498 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3499 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3502 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3503 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3504 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3505 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3506 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3507 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3508 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3509 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3510 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3511 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3512 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3514 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3517 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3518 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3519 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3520 ignores EPIPE as well.
3522 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3523 (quoted-printable decoding).
3525 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3526 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3528 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3530 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3532 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3534 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3535 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3537 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3540 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3541 miscellaneous code fixes
3543 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3546 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3547 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3548 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3549 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3550 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3551 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3552 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3553 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3555 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3556 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3557 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3558 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3560 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3561 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3562 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3563 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3564 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3565 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3566 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3567 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3568 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3570 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3573 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3574 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3575 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3576 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3577 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3578 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3579 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3580 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3582 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3583 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3586 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3587 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3588 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3589 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3590 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3591 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3592 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3593 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3594 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3595 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3596 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3597 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3598 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3600 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3601 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3602 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3603 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3604 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3605 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3606 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3608 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3609 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3610 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3611 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3612 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3613 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3614 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3615 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3616 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3617 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3619 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3620 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3621 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3622 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3623 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3625 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3626 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3627 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3628 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3629 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3630 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3631 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3633 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3634 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3635 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3636 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3637 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3638 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3641 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3642 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3643 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3646 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3647 if any retry times were supplied.
3649 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3650 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3651 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3653 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3655 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3657 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3658 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3659 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3660 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3661 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3662 before) are ignored.
3664 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3665 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3667 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3668 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3669 committing the later change.]
3671 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3672 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3673 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3674 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3675 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3676 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3677 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3678 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3679 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3681 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3682 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3683 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3684 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3685 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3686 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3687 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3688 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3689 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3691 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3692 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3693 hammering the server.
3695 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3696 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3698 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3700 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3701 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3702 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3704 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3705 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3706 one case where this was not true.
3708 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3709 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3710 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3711 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3714 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3715 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3716 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3717 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3718 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3719 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3720 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3721 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3722 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3725 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3726 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3727 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3728 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3730 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3731 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3733 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3734 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3735 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3737 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3739 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3741 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3743 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3744 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3745 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3746 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3748 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3749 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3751 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3752 be meaningful with "accept".
3754 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3755 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3757 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3758 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3759 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3761 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3762 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3763 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3764 there is data to show.
3765 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3767 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3768 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3769 as well as the number of messages.
3771 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3772 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3773 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3775 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3776 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3777 have a flag are now skipped.
3779 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3780 Added the -emptyok flag.
3782 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3783 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3785 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3786 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3787 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3789 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3792 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3793 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3795 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3797 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3798 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3800 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3802 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3803 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3804 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3805 contravention of the specifications.
3807 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3808 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3809 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3811 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3812 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3813 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3815 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3817 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3818 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3819 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3820 some point in the past.
3822 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3823 transport during callout processing was broken.
3825 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3826 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3828 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3829 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3831 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3832 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3834 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3840 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3841 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3843 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3844 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3845 there is data to show.
3846 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3848 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3849 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3851 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3852 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3854 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3855 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3857 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3858 submissions from trusted users.
3860 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3861 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3863 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3864 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3865 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3866 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3867 there is now a framework to start from.
3869 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3870 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3871 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3873 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3875 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3877 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3879 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3880 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3881 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3883 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3886 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3887 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3888 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3890 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3891 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3892 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3895 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3896 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3897 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3898 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3899 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3901 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3902 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3904 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3906 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3907 operations in malware.c.
3909 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3912 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3913 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3914 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3917 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3918 statements to "add_header".
3920 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3921 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3923 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3924 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3927 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3931 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3932 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3933 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3936 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3937 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3939 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3940 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3942 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3943 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3944 any possible encoding problems.
3946 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3947 but not after initializing Perl.
3949 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3950 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3951 apparently, which is not desirable.
3953 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3956 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3959 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3961 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3962 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3963 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3964 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3966 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3967 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3968 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3970 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3971 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3972 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3975 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3976 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3977 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3978 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3979 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3985 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3986 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3988 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3991 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3992 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3993 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3994 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3995 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3996 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3997 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3998 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4001 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4003 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4004 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4005 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4007 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4008 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4009 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4012 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4013 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4015 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4016 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4017 option (which defaults to 0600).
4019 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4021 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4022 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4023 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4024 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4025 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4026 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4027 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4029 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4035 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4036 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4037 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4038 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4039 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4040 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4043 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4044 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4046 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4048 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4049 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4050 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4051 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4052 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4055 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4056 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4058 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4059 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4060 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4061 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4062 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4064 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4065 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4066 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4067 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4069 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4070 be the same on different OS.
4072 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4075 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4076 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4078 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4081 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4082 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4083 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4084 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4085 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4086 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4089 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4090 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4091 when Exim was called.
4093 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4094 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4096 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4097 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4098 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4099 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4101 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4102 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4103 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4104 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4107 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4108 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4109 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4111 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4112 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4113 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4115 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4118 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4119 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4120 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4121 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4122 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4123 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4124 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4125 values from the SRV records were lost.
4127 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4128 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4129 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4131 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4132 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4133 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4135 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4136 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4137 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4138 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4139 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4140 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4141 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4142 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4143 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4144 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4146 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4147 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4148 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4150 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4151 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4153 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4154 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4155 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4156 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4159 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4160 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4161 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4163 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4164 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4165 PH/23 above applies.
4167 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4168 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4169 (for which there is an explicit test).
4171 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4173 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4174 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4175 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4176 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4177 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4179 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4180 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4181 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4182 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4184 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4185 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4186 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4188 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4190 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4192 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4193 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4194 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4196 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4197 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4198 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4199 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4200 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4202 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4203 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4204 the message gets confusing).
4206 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4207 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4208 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4209 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4211 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4212 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4213 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4214 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4217 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4218 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4219 the different processes.
4221 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4223 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4225 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4226 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4228 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4229 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4231 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4232 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4233 messages matching specified criteria.
4235 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4237 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4238 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4240 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4241 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4242 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4243 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4244 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4245 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4246 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4247 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4248 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4249 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4251 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4252 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4253 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4255 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4257 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4258 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4259 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4260 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4261 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4262 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4263 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4266 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4267 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4269 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4271 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4273 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4275 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4276 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4277 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4278 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4279 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4280 size of the count of files.
4282 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4284 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4287 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4288 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4289 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4290 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4292 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4293 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4294 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4296 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4297 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4298 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4299 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4300 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4302 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4303 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4305 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4306 will now be deprecated.
4308 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4310 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4311 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4312 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4314 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4315 with very large, slow to parse queues
4317 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4319 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4321 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4322 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4323 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4326 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4327 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4328 Sieve code now uses this.
4330 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4331 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4333 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4334 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4336 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4338 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4339 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4340 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4341 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4342 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4344 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4345 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4346 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4347 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4349 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4351 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4353 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4354 is preferred over IPv4.
4356 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4357 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4358 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4359 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4360 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4361 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4362 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4364 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4365 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4366 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4368 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4370 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4371 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4372 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4373 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4374 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4375 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4376 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4377 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4378 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4379 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4380 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4382 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4383 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4384 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4390 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4392 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4393 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4395 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4396 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4397 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4399 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4401 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4404 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4407 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4408 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4409 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4412 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4413 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4415 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4416 inside the third argument.
4418 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4419 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4422 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4423 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4425 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4426 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4428 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4430 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4431 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4434 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4436 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4437 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4438 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4439 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4440 identical. For example:
4442 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4444 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4445 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4446 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4448 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4449 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4450 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4451 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4453 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4454 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4455 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4458 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4460 o fixes some comments
4461 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4462 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4463 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4464 and documents the missing references header update
4468 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4469 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4472 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4473 Electronic Mail") by including:
4475 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4477 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4478 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4479 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4480 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4481 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4483 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4485 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4487 The auto-replied keyword:
4489 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4490 message by an automatic process,
4492 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4494 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4495 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4497 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4498 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4501 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4502 to the default Received: header definition.
4504 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4506 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4507 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4508 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4510 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4511 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4512 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4514 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4515 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4516 and treats the condition as false.
4518 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4520 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4521 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4522 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4523 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4524 not changing the active code.
4526 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4527 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4529 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4530 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4532 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4535 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4536 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4537 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4538 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4539 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4540 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4541 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4542 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4543 the text comparison.
4545 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4546 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4547 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4548 The same fix has been applied.
4554 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4555 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4558 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4559 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4561 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4563 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4564 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4565 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4566 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4567 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4569 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4570 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4571 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4572 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4575 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4583 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4584 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4586 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4588 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4590 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4591 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4592 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4594 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4595 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4596 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4598 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4599 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4602 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4603 ${stat: expansion item.
4605 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4606 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4608 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4609 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4612 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4614 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4617 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4618 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4620 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4622 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4623 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4624 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4625 the end of the subprocess.
4627 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4628 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4629 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4630 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4631 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4633 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4635 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4637 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4638 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4640 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4642 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4644 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4645 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4648 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4650 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4651 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4652 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4654 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4655 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4657 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4658 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4660 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4661 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4663 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4664 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4666 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4667 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4668 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4669 contributed by a Radius user.
4671 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4672 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4674 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4675 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4677 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4680 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4681 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4684 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4685 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4686 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4687 header lines when this was not necessary.
4689 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4691 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4692 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4693 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4696 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4699 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4700 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4701 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4702 return code was incorrect.
4704 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4706 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4708 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4710 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4712 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4713 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4714 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4715 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4716 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4719 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4721 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4722 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4723 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4724 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4725 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4726 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4727 which is clearly wrong.
4729 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4731 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4732 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4733 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4736 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4737 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4739 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4741 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4742 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4744 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4745 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4747 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4748 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4750 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4751 recipients, not senders.
4753 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4754 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4756 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4758 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4760 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4761 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4762 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4763 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4765 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4767 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4768 clock is set back in time.
4770 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4771 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4773 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4774 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4776 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4777 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4780 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4781 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4784 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4787 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4789 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4790 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4791 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4793 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4794 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4795 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4796 helo verification defer as a failure.
4798 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4799 actual error message.
4805 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4807 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4808 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4809 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4810 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4812 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4814 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4815 can still be requested.
4817 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4818 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4819 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4820 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4822 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4823 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4824 circumstances, but probably never did.
4826 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4827 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4828 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4831 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4833 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4834 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4836 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4838 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4840 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4841 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4842 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4843 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4844 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4845 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4847 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4848 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4849 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4850 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4851 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4852 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4854 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4855 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4857 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4858 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4860 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4861 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4863 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4865 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4867 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4869 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4871 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4873 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4875 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4877 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4878 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4879 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4881 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4882 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4883 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4884 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4886 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4887 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4888 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4890 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4891 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4892 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4893 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4895 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4896 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4899 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4900 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4901 should work with maildirs and everything.
4903 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4904 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4906 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4909 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4910 function for BDB 4.3.
4912 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4914 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4915 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4918 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4919 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4920 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4921 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4922 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4923 formatting function string_vformat().
4925 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4926 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4927 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4928 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4929 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4930 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4931 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4932 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4934 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4935 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4938 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4939 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4941 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4942 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4943 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4944 test. It is now used for both.
4946 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4947 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4948 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4949 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4950 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4951 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4953 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4954 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4955 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4958 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4959 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4960 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4962 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4963 experimental DomainKeys support:
4965 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4966 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4967 the control was given.
4969 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4971 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4973 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4975 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4976 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4977 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4980 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4981 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4982 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4983 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4984 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4985 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4988 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4989 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4990 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4991 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4992 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4993 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4995 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4996 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4997 do -d+all out of habit.
4999 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5000 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5003 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5004 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5005 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5006 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5007 record types that Exim uses.
5009 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5010 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5011 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5012 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5013 non-existent file that was broken.
5015 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5016 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5018 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5019 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5020 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5022 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5024 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5025 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5026 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5027 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5028 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5031 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5032 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5033 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5034 at a slight CPU cost.
5036 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5037 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5039 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5042 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5044 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5045 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5051 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5052 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5054 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5056 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5058 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5059 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5061 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5062 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5063 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5064 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5065 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5066 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5069 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5070 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5071 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5072 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5075 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5076 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5077 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5078 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5079 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5080 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5081 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5084 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5085 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5087 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5088 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5089 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5090 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5091 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5092 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5094 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5095 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5096 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5097 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5099 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5102 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5103 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5105 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5106 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5107 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5108 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5111 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5113 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5114 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5116 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5117 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5118 to what was transported.)
5120 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5122 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5123 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5124 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5125 spamd_address settings.
5127 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5128 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5129 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5130 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5131 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5133 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5135 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5136 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5137 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5138 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5139 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5141 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5142 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5144 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5145 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5146 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5147 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5148 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5149 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5150 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5153 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5154 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5155 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5156 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5157 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5158 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5159 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5162 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5164 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5165 driver and ACL definitions.
5167 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5168 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5170 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5171 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5172 understands it better than I do:
5174 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5175 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5177 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5178 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5179 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5180 => three warnings about OTP not working
5181 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5183 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5184 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5185 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5186 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5188 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5189 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5191 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5192 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5193 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5195 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5196 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5199 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5200 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5203 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5204 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5205 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5207 warn !verify = sender
5208 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5210 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5211 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5213 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5215 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5216 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5218 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5219 nomenclature these days.)
5221 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5222 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5224 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5225 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5226 . First host does not offer TLS;
5227 . First host accepts first address;
5228 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5229 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5230 . Second host accepts second address.
5231 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5232 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5235 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5236 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5237 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5238 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5239 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5241 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5242 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5244 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5245 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5247 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5248 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5249 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5251 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5252 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5255 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5257 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5258 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5259 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5260 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5261 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5262 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5263 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5265 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5266 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5267 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5268 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5269 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5271 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5272 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5275 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5276 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5277 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5278 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5279 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5280 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5282 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5284 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5285 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5286 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5287 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5288 printable escape sequences.
5290 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5291 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5294 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5295 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5298 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5299 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5300 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5301 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5302 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5304 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5305 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5306 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5308 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5310 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5311 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5314 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5315 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5316 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5317 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5318 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5319 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5320 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5321 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5322 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5325 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5326 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5327 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5328 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5332 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5333 ----------------------------------------
5335 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5336 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5337 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5338 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5339 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5340 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5343 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5344 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5345 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5346 historical information.
5352 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5354 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5355 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5357 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5358 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5361 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5362 filter fails to execute.
5364 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5365 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5366 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5367 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5368 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5370 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5372 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5373 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5374 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5375 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5377 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5378 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5379 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5380 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5381 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5383 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5385 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5387 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5388 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5389 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5390 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5392 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5393 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5394 sender verification.
5396 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5397 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5399 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5401 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5404 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5405 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5407 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5408 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5410 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5411 information about exactly what failed.
5413 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5415 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5416 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5417 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5419 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5420 It is now set to "smtps".
5422 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5423 ignore_target_hosts.
5425 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5426 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5427 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5428 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5431 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5432 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5433 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5435 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5436 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5437 wake it up if nothing else does.
5439 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5440 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5441 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5444 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5445 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5447 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5449 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5450 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5451 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5452 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5453 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5454 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5455 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5456 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5458 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5459 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5460 than one IP address.
5462 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5463 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5464 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5465 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5467 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5468 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5469 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5470 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5471 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5474 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5475 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5476 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5477 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5479 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5480 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5483 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5484 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5485 $sender_host_address.
5487 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5488 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5489 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5490 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5491 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5494 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5496 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5497 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5499 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5500 just the host names, not the priorities.
5502 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5503 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5504 controlled by a keyword.
5506 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5507 multiple records are returned.
5509 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5510 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5513 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5515 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5516 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5518 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5519 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5520 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5522 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5524 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5526 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5528 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5529 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5530 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5531 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5532 because the tests only now provoked it.
5534 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5535 (this can affect the format of dates).
5537 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5538 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5539 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5540 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5542 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5544 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5545 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5546 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5547 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5549 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5550 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5551 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5553 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5556 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5557 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5558 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5559 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5560 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5561 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5564 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5565 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5566 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5569 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5570 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5571 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5573 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5574 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5575 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5576 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5577 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5578 so I produce this patch..."
5580 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5581 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5584 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5585 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5586 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5587 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5590 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5592 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5593 long debug lines gets shown.
5595 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5596 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5598 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5600 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5601 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5602 of $primary_hostname.
5604 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5605 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5606 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5607 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5608 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5609 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5610 by change 4.50/55 above.
5612 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5613 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5614 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5615 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5616 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5617 running as the user.
5620 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5621 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5622 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5625 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5626 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5628 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5629 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5630 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5631 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5632 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5634 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5635 This has been fixed.
5637 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5638 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5639 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5640 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5643 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5645 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5646 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5647 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5648 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5650 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5651 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5653 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5654 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5655 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5657 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5658 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5659 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5662 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5663 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5664 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5666 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5667 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5668 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5669 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5671 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5672 during host lookups.
5674 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5675 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5677 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5679 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5680 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5681 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5682 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5683 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5686 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5687 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5689 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5690 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5691 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5693 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5695 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5696 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5697 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5698 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5699 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5700 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5703 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5704 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5705 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5706 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5707 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5709 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5712 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5714 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5715 "vacation" handling.
5717 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5718 OS variants using glibc.
5720 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5723 ----------------------------------------------------
5724 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5725 ----------------------------------------------------
5731 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5732 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5735 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5736 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5739 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5740 filter fails to execute.
5742 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5743 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5744 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5745 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5746 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5748 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5749 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5750 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5751 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5753 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5754 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5755 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5756 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5757 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5759 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5761 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5762 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5763 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5764 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5766 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5767 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5768 sender verification.
5770 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5771 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5773 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5774 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5776 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5777 ignore_target_hosts.
5779 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5780 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5781 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5782 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5785 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5786 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5787 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5789 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5790 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5791 wake it up if nothing else does.
5793 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5794 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5795 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5798 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5799 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5801 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5803 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5804 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5807 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5808 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5811 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5812 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5813 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5814 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5815 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5818 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5819 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5822 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5823 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5824 $sender_host_address.
5826 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5828 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5829 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5830 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5832 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5835 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5836 (this can affect the format of dates).
5838 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5839 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5840 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5841 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5843 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5844 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5845 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5847 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5848 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5849 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5850 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5852 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5853 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5854 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5856 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5859 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5860 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5861 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5862 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5863 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5864 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5867 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5868 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5869 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5870 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5873 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5874 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5875 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5876 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5877 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5878 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5879 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5881 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5882 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5883 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5884 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5885 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5886 running as the user.
5889 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5890 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5891 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5894 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5895 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5896 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5897 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5898 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5900 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5901 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5902 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5903 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5906 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5907 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5908 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5909 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5910 because the tests only now provoked it.
5916 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5917 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5918 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5919 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5920 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5921 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5922 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5924 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5925 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5928 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5930 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5932 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5933 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5936 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5937 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5938 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5939 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5940 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5942 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5943 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5945 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5947 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5949 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5952 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5953 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5955 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5956 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5957 affecting debugging statements).
5959 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5961 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5962 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5963 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5964 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5965 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5966 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5967 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5968 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5969 after the received time, and all would be well.
5971 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5972 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5973 condition in an expansion string.
5975 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5977 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5978 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5979 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5980 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5981 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5982 job under whatever limits there are.
5984 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5986 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5989 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5990 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5991 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5992 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5995 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5996 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5997 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5998 binary data in such strings.
6000 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6002 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6003 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6004 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6005 failure, which is pointless.
6007 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6009 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6011 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6012 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6013 Sender: header lines.
6015 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6016 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6017 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6019 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6020 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6021 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6022 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6023 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6026 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6027 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6028 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6029 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6030 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6032 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6033 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6034 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6037 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6038 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6040 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6041 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6043 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6045 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6047 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6049 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6052 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6054 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6056 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6057 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6058 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6059 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6061 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6062 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6068 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6069 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6070 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6072 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6073 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6074 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6075 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6076 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6077 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6079 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6080 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6081 verification failure".
6083 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6084 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6085 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6086 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6088 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6089 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6090 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6091 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6092 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6093 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6094 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6095 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6096 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6097 treated as a timeout.
6099 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6100 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6101 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6102 not set for Exim filters).
6104 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6105 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6106 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6108 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6110 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6111 try to make them clearer.
6113 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6114 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6116 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6118 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6120 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6121 only the Cygwin environment.
6123 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6124 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6125 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6126 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6127 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6129 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6130 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6131 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6132 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6133 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6134 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6135 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6137 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6138 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6140 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6142 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6143 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6144 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6146 To: susanne@some.where
6148 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6149 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6150 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6151 of addresses in From: header lines).
6153 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6154 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6155 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6157 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6158 treated as non-personal.
6160 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6161 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6163 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6165 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6167 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6168 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6169 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6171 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6172 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6174 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6175 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6176 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6177 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6178 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6179 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6181 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6182 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6183 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6184 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6185 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6186 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6187 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6188 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6190 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6192 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6193 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6195 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6196 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6197 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6199 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6200 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6202 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6203 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6204 rather than long int.
6206 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6208 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6214 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6215 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6216 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6217 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6218 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6219 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6225 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6226 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6228 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6229 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6230 socklen_t is defined.
6232 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6235 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6238 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6239 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6240 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6241 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6242 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6244 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6245 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6246 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6247 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6249 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6250 of flapping under certain conditions.
6252 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6253 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6254 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6256 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6258 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6260 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6261 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6262 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6263 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6265 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6266 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6267 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6268 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6269 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6270 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6271 preserved with the message after it was received.
6273 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6274 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6275 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6276 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6277 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6278 test suite worked just fine.
6280 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6281 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6282 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6284 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6285 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6288 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6289 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6290 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6291 does not fully solve it.
6293 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6294 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6295 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6296 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6297 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6299 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6300 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6301 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6303 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6304 string, for example:
6306 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6308 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6309 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6310 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6311 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6312 the routers could not see them.
6314 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6315 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6317 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6318 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6321 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6322 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6323 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6324 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6325 that needed quoting.
6327 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6328 was not being matched caselessly.
6330 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6333 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6334 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6335 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6336 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6337 when use_sender is false.
6339 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6341 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6343 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6345 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6346 the configuration file.
6348 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6349 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6351 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6353 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6354 bytes in the message body.
6356 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6357 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6360 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6362 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6364 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6365 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6366 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6367 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6374 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6375 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6377 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6378 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6379 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6380 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6381 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6383 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6384 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6386 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6387 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6388 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6390 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6391 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6392 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6394 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6397 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6398 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6399 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6400 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6401 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6402 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6403 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6409 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6410 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6411 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6412 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6413 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6414 default (and expected) setting.
6416 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6417 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6418 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6419 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6421 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6422 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6424 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6427 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6428 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6429 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6430 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6431 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6432 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6434 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6435 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6436 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6438 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6439 part (NOT match_host).
6441 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6443 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6444 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6445 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6446 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6447 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6448 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6449 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6450 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6451 the same named file.
6453 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6454 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6457 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6458 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6459 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6460 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6463 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6464 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6465 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6467 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6469 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6471 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6473 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6474 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6476 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6477 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6478 before starting the TLS session.
6480 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6482 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6483 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6485 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6486 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6487 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6488 colon in the middle).
6494 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6495 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6496 multiple configurations are in use.
6498 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6499 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6500 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6501 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6502 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6503 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6505 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6506 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6508 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6509 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6510 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6512 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6513 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6516 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6517 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6519 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6521 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6522 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6524 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6532 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6533 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6534 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6535 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6536 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6538 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6541 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6542 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6543 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6544 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6545 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6546 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6548 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6549 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6550 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6551 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6552 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6553 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6554 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6557 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6558 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6559 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6560 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6561 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6563 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6565 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6566 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6567 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6569 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6571 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6572 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6573 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6576 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6577 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6579 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6580 Three changes have been made:
6582 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6583 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6584 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6585 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6586 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6588 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6591 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6592 the modified behaviour.
6598 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6601 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6602 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6604 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6605 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6606 try to track down a specific problem.
6608 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6609 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6610 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6612 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6615 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6616 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6617 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6618 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6619 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6620 some earlier ones do not.
6622 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6624 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6625 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6626 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6627 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6628 address literals are enabled, of course).
6630 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6632 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6633 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6634 by a command such as
6638 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6640 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6642 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6643 remained set. It is now erased.
6645 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6646 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6648 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6649 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6650 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6651 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6652 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6653 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6654 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6655 appropriate error code.
6657 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6658 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6659 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6660 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6661 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6662 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6664 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6665 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6666 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6668 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6669 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6670 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6671 terminate the header.
6673 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6674 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6675 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6677 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6678 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6679 (4.30/29). In particular:
6681 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6684 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6685 to write a maildirsize file.
6687 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6688 the transport, the new value overrides.
6690 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6693 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6694 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6695 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6698 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6699 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6700 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6703 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6704 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6705 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6707 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6708 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6711 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6712 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6713 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6715 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6717 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6719 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6721 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6722 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6725 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6726 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6727 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6728 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6729 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6730 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6731 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6734 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6735 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6736 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6737 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6738 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6741 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6742 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6743 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6744 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6745 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6746 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6747 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6748 cached value only when the same options are set.
6750 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6752 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6753 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6754 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6755 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6756 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6758 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6759 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6760 it is clearly obsolete.
6762 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6765 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6766 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6767 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6770 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6771 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6772 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6773 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6774 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6776 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6777 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6778 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6779 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6781 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6783 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6785 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6786 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6789 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6790 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6791 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6792 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6793 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6794 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6797 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6798 with the -f command-line option.
6800 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6801 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6802 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6803 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6804 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6805 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6807 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6808 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6811 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6812 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6813 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6814 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6815 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6816 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6817 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6818 buffer is too small.
6820 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6821 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6823 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6824 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6825 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6826 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6827 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6828 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6829 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6830 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6831 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6833 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6834 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6835 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6837 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6838 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6841 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6842 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6843 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6844 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6845 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6847 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6848 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6849 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6850 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6853 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6855 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6857 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6858 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6860 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6861 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6862 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6864 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6865 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6866 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6867 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6868 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6870 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6871 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6872 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6873 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6874 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6875 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6876 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6878 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6879 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6880 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6881 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6882 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6883 the test of how many are available.
6885 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6886 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6887 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6888 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6889 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6890 new message is started.
6892 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6893 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6895 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6896 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6898 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6899 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6900 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6903 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6904 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6905 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6906 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6907 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6908 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6909 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6911 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6912 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6913 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6914 interpreted as octal.
6916 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6919 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6920 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6921 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6922 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6923 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6924 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6926 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6927 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6928 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6929 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6931 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6932 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6933 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6934 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6936 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6937 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6940 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6941 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6943 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6945 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6946 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6947 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6948 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6950 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6951 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6952 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6953 supplied", which is not helpful.
6955 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6956 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6957 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6959 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6960 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6961 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6962 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6963 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6964 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6965 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6966 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6968 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6969 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6970 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6971 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6972 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6974 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6975 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6976 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6977 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6978 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6979 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6981 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6982 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6983 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6985 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6987 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6988 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6989 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6992 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6994 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6995 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6996 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6997 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6998 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6999 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7000 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7001 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7003 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7004 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7005 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7006 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7007 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7009 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7012 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7013 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7014 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7015 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7016 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7017 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7018 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7019 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7020 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7026 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7027 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7028 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7030 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7033 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7034 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7035 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7037 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7038 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7039 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7040 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7041 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7042 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7044 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7045 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7046 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7047 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7048 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7049 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7050 the Exim test suite.
7052 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7053 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7054 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7055 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7057 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7058 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7059 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7060 specify it in this variable.
7062 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7063 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7064 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7065 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7067 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7068 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7069 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7070 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7072 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7073 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7074 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7075 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7076 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7078 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7080 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7083 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7084 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7085 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7086 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7087 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7089 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7090 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7092 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7093 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7094 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7095 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7096 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7098 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7099 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7101 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7102 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7103 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7105 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7106 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7108 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7109 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7111 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7112 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7113 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7115 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7116 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7118 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7119 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7120 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7121 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7123 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7125 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7126 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7127 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7128 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7130 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7132 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7133 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7135 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7137 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7138 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7139 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7140 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7141 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7142 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7144 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7146 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7147 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7150 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7152 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7153 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7155 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7156 550 Sender verify failed
7158 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7159 the final line of the response.
7161 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7162 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7163 all other user lookups.
7165 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7168 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7169 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7170 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7171 result into an int without checking.
7173 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7174 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7175 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7177 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7178 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7179 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7180 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7182 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7185 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7186 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7188 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7189 to the empty sender.
7191 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7192 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7193 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7194 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7195 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7196 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7197 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7200 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7201 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7202 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7203 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7206 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7207 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7209 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7212 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7213 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7215 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7217 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7218 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7221 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7222 as soon as it is encountered.
7224 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7226 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7229 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7230 recognizes a tab character.
7232 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7233 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7234 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7235 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7237 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7239 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7242 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7244 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7246 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7247 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7250 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7251 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7252 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7253 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7254 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7256 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7257 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7259 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7260 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7261 list (.included file names were always shown).
7263 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7264 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7265 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7268 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7269 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7271 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7273 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7275 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7277 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7278 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7279 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7280 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7281 failures to open the logs.
7283 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7284 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7285 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7286 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7287 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7288 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7289 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7295 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7296 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7297 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7300 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7301 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7302 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7304 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7305 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7306 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7308 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7309 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7310 causing some misleading effects.
7312 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7313 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7314 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7316 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7317 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7318 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7319 queue-runner function directly.
7325 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7328 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7329 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7330 was always written to the default place.
7332 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7333 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7334 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7336 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7338 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7340 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7341 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7342 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7344 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7345 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7348 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7349 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7350 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7352 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7353 command line option is disabled.
7355 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7356 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7358 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7360 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7362 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7363 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7365 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7367 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7368 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7369 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7370 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7371 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7372 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7374 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7375 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7378 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7379 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7381 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7382 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7384 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7385 received was valid base64.
7387 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7388 name of the variable that was being set.
7390 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7392 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7393 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7394 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7395 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7396 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7397 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7399 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7401 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7402 nor realm was specified.
7404 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7405 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7406 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7407 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7409 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7410 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7411 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7413 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7414 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7415 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7417 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7418 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7419 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7420 some systems use these upper case variants.
7422 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7423 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7424 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7425 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7427 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7429 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7430 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7432 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7433 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7436 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7438 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7439 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7440 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7441 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7443 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7446 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7447 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7448 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7450 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7451 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7453 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7454 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7455 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7456 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7458 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7459 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7460 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7462 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7464 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7465 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7466 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7467 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7470 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7471 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7472 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7474 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7476 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7477 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7479 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7480 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7482 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7483 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7484 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7485 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7486 when emails are that large.
7493 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7494 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7496 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7497 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7498 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7500 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7501 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7502 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7504 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7505 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7506 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7507 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7508 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7510 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7511 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7512 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7513 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7514 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7517 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7518 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7519 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7520 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7521 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7522 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7523 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7524 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7525 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7526 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7527 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7528 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7529 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7530 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7532 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7533 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7536 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7537 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7538 error should be diagnosed.
7540 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7541 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7542 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7543 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7544 appeared instead of "NULL".
7546 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7547 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7548 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7549 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7550 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7551 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7554 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7555 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7556 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7562 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7563 or receiver verification errors.
7565 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7568 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7569 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7570 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7571 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7573 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7574 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7575 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7576 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7577 shouldn't happen again.
7579 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7580 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7581 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7583 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7584 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7586 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7588 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7589 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7591 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7592 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7595 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7596 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7597 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7599 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7600 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7601 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7602 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7604 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7605 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7606 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7607 to define what should happen).
7609 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7610 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7611 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7613 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7615 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7617 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7618 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7620 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7621 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7622 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7623 structure in all cases.
7625 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7626 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7627 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7628 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7630 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7631 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7634 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7635 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7637 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7638 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7640 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7641 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7642 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7644 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7645 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7646 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7648 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7649 the book and for uniformity.
7651 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7653 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7654 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7655 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7656 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7657 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7658 non-existent command as the problem.
7660 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7661 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7662 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7664 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7666 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7667 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7668 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7670 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7671 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7672 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7673 timestamps using strftime().
7675 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7676 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7678 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7679 transport-time rewrites.
7681 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7682 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7683 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7684 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7686 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7687 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7689 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7690 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7691 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7692 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7695 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7696 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7697 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7698 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7699 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7700 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7701 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7703 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7704 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7705 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7706 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7707 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7709 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7710 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7711 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7712 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7713 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7714 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7715 remaining text gets split now.
7717 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7718 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7719 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7720 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7722 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7723 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7724 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7725 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7728 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7729 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7730 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7731 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7732 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7733 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7734 passed through if needed.
7736 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7737 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7738 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7739 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7740 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7741 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7743 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7744 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7745 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7746 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7747 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7749 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7750 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7751 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7752 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7753 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7755 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7756 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7759 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7760 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7761 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7762 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7763 mayhem of various kinds.
7765 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7766 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7767 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7768 the right test for positive values.
7770 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7771 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7772 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7773 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7774 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7775 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7776 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7777 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7778 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7779 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7782 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7785 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7786 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7789 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7790 the existing equality matching.
7792 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7793 dealing with inode numbers.
7795 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7796 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7797 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7799 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7800 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7801 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7802 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7805 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7806 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7807 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7808 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7809 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7810 relay addresses has also been removed.
7812 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7814 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7815 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7816 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7818 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7819 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7820 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7821 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7822 processing applies to CR:
7824 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7825 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7827 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7828 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7829 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7830 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7832 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7833 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7834 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7836 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7837 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7838 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7839 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7840 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7841 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7844 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7847 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7848 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7849 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7850 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7853 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7855 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7857 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7859 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7860 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7861 not considered personal.
7863 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7865 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7867 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7869 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7870 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7871 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7872 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7873 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7874 header lines, and spool format errors.
7876 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7877 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7878 for more flexibility.
7880 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7881 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7882 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7884 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7887 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7888 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7889 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7890 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7891 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7892 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7893 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7894 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7895 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7897 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7898 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7899 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7900 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7901 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7902 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7903 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7905 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7906 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7907 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7909 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7910 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7911 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7912 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7913 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7914 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7915 instead of killing the process with assert().
7917 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7918 than Unicode encoding.
7920 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7921 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7922 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7923 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7925 77. Added process_log_path.
7927 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7928 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7930 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7931 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7933 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7934 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7935 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7937 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7938 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7939 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7940 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7941 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7944 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7945 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7948 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7949 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7950 they will be used during message reception.
7956 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.