1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique messmage IDs) from
9 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
10 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
13 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
14 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
16 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
17 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
18 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
19 not be modified by local-scan code.
21 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
22 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
24 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
25 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
28 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
29 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
31 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
32 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
39 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
40 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
41 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
43 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
44 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
45 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
46 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
48 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
49 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
50 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
51 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
52 so could be handling tainted values.
54 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
55 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
56 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
58 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
59 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
60 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
63 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
64 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
65 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
66 to align better with RFC 6125.
68 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
69 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
70 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
71 by adding a release action in that path.
73 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
74 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
75 dynamically-created buffers.
77 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
78 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
79 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
80 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
82 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
83 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
84 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
85 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
87 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
88 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
89 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
91 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
92 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
93 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
94 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
96 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
97 excluded, not matching the documentation.
99 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
100 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
102 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
103 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
104 this was a coding error.
106 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
107 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
108 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
109 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
110 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
111 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
112 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
114 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
115 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
116 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
117 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
119 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
120 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
121 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
122 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
123 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
125 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
126 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
129 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
130 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
131 domain-parking registrar.
133 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
134 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
135 after removing the newline.
137 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
138 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
139 option set, which was previously used.
141 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
144 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
145 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
146 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
147 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
149 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
150 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
151 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
152 exim.dev.20160529.3).
154 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
155 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
156 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
158 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
159 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
160 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
163 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
164 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
165 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
167 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
168 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
169 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
170 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
173 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
174 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
175 there, handle PRX and TFO.
177 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
178 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
179 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
180 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
181 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
183 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
184 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
185 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
186 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
189 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
190 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
192 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
195 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
196 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
197 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
198 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
199 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
201 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
203 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
204 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
205 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
206 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
207 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
208 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
210 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
211 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
213 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
214 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
215 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
217 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
218 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
221 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
222 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
223 of a new variable: $auth4.
225 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
226 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
227 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
228 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
229 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
231 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
232 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
233 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
234 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
236 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
237 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
238 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
240 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
241 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
242 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
243 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
246 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
247 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
248 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
251 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
252 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
253 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
254 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
256 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
257 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
259 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
260 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
261 looked as if if might be one.
263 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
264 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
265 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
266 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
267 messages can show the proxy information.
269 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
270 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
271 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
272 "queue_time_exclusive".
274 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
275 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
276 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
278 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
279 making it unusable in complex expressions.
281 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
282 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
285 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
287 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
289 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
291 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
292 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
293 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
294 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
296 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
297 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
299 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
300 better. Reported by Qualys.
302 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
303 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
306 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
308 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
311 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
313 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
314 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
315 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
316 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
318 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
319 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
321 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
322 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
323 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
324 mode until after various protocol state checks.
325 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
327 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
329 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
330 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
332 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
335 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
336 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
337 executed child processes (if any).
339 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
342 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
343 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
344 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
345 been reported on other platforms.
347 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
349 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
350 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
351 Not supported on Solaris 10.
353 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
354 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
355 since fakereject was originally introduced.
357 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
358 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
360 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
361 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
362 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
365 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
366 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
367 which only permit IP addresses.
373 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
374 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
375 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
377 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
379 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
380 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
383 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
384 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
385 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
387 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
389 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
391 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
392 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
393 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
395 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
396 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
397 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
399 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
400 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
402 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
403 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
406 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
407 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
408 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
409 should both provide the file and set the option.
410 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
412 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
413 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
415 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
416 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
417 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
418 Authentication-Results: header.
420 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
421 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
422 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
423 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
425 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
426 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
427 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
428 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
429 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
430 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
431 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
433 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
434 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
435 copies while it is still usable.
437 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
438 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
439 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
441 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
442 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
444 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
445 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
446 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
447 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
449 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
450 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
451 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
454 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
455 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
456 - the pipe transport command
457 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
458 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
460 - paths used by single-key lookups
461 Previously this was permitted.
463 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
464 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
465 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
466 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
468 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
469 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
470 support larger malloc requests.
472 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
473 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
474 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
475 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
477 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
478 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
479 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
480 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
483 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
484 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
485 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
486 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
487 data being length-specified.
489 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
490 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
491 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
492 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
494 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
495 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
496 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
497 not being properly tracked.
499 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
500 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
501 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
502 minute could be seen.
504 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
505 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
506 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
508 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
509 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
511 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
512 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
515 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
517 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
518 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
520 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
521 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
522 filesystem as sufficient validation.
524 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
525 argument is supplied.
527 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
528 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
529 access under Exim's current working directory.
531 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
532 Previously no event was raised.
534 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
535 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
536 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
539 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
540 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
541 the size of the signature hash.
543 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
544 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
546 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
547 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
548 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
549 dropped between messages.
551 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
552 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
553 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
554 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
556 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
557 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
558 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
559 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
560 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
561 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
562 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
563 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
564 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
566 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
567 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
568 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
570 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
571 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
578 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
579 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
581 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
582 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
585 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
588 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
590 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
592 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
593 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
595 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
596 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
597 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
598 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
599 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
600 suitably configured).
602 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
603 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
605 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
606 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
609 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
610 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
612 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
613 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
614 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
615 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
618 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
619 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
620 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
622 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
625 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
626 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
628 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
629 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
630 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
631 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
634 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
635 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
636 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
637 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
640 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
641 shared (NFS) environment.
643 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
644 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
647 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
648 on some platforms for bit 31.
650 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
651 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
652 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
653 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
654 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
655 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
656 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
657 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
659 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
661 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
662 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
664 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
665 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
668 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
669 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
672 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
673 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
674 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
677 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
678 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
679 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
681 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
682 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
683 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
684 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
685 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
687 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
690 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
691 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
692 be requested on all coneections.
694 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
695 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
697 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
699 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
700 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
701 one for these; the option was ignored.
703 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
704 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
705 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
706 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
708 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
709 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
710 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
713 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
714 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
715 error ignored was made.
717 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
719 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
720 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
721 values, to catch one form of exploit.
723 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
724 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
725 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
727 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
728 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
731 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
732 them in our smtp response.
734 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
735 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
736 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
737 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
738 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
740 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
741 link count into consideration.
743 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
744 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
746 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
747 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
748 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
751 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
753 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
755 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
757 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
758 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
759 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
760 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
762 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
764 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
765 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
768 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
769 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
770 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
772 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
773 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
774 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
776 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
777 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
778 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
779 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
780 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
781 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
782 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
783 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
785 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
786 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
787 resulted in an indefinite loop.
789 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
790 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
791 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
797 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
798 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
800 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
801 non-signal-safe functions being used.
803 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
804 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
805 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
807 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
808 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
809 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
811 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
812 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
813 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
814 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
815 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
818 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
819 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
821 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
822 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
823 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
824 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
825 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
826 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
827 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
829 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
830 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
832 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
835 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
836 Previously this would segfault.
838 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
841 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
842 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
843 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
844 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
845 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
846 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
848 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
850 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
851 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
852 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
853 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
855 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
857 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
858 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
859 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
860 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
862 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
864 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
866 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
867 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
868 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
870 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
871 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
872 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
874 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
876 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
877 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
878 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
879 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
881 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
882 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
883 promised '?' replacement.
885 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
887 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
888 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
889 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
890 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
891 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
893 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
894 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
895 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
897 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
898 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
899 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
901 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
902 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
903 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
905 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
906 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
907 hope that is portable enough.
909 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
910 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
911 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
912 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
914 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
915 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
916 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
918 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
919 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
920 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
921 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
923 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
924 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
926 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
927 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
928 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
929 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
931 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
932 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
933 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
935 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
936 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
937 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
938 the previous G, M, k.
940 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
941 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
944 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
945 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
946 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
947 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
949 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
950 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
952 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
953 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
954 off past the nul-terimation.
956 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
957 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
958 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
959 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
960 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
962 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
964 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
965 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
966 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
969 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
970 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
972 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
973 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
974 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
976 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
977 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
978 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
980 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
981 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
987 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
988 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
989 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
990 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
991 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
992 be defined in redis_servers.
994 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
995 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
997 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
998 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
999 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1000 extant use locations.
1002 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1003 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1005 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1006 Previously only the last row was returned.
1008 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1009 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1010 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1011 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1014 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1015 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1016 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1017 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1018 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1019 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1020 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1021 Main pool for expansions.
1022 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1023 active in the testsuite.
1024 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1026 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1027 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1028 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1029 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1032 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1033 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1036 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1037 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1038 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1040 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1041 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1042 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1044 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1045 rows affected is given instead).
1047 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1048 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1050 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1051 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1052 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1053 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1054 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1056 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1057 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1058 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1060 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1061 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1062 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1063 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1066 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1067 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1068 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1071 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1073 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1074 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1076 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1077 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1078 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1080 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1081 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1082 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1085 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1086 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1088 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1089 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1090 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1092 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1093 for the build is renamed.
1095 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1096 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1097 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1099 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1100 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1101 result replacing the original.
1103 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1104 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1105 and the resources needed to be freed.
1107 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1109 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1112 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1113 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1114 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1115 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1117 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1118 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1120 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1121 newer versions of the scanner.
1123 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1124 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1125 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1126 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1127 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1128 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1129 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1131 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1132 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1133 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1134 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1135 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1136 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1137 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1138 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1139 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1140 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1142 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1143 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1145 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1147 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1148 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1150 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1151 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1153 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1154 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1155 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1157 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1158 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1159 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1160 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1162 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1163 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1166 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1167 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1169 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1170 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1171 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1172 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1173 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1175 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1176 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1179 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1180 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1182 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1185 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1186 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1187 "bare" representation.
1189 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1190 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1191 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1192 corrupted the output.
1198 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1199 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1200 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1201 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1203 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1204 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1206 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1207 This permits better logging.
1209 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1210 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1211 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1212 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1213 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1214 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1216 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1217 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1220 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1221 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1222 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1224 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1225 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1227 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1228 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1229 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1230 client, there is no benefit for these.
1231 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1232 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1233 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1236 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1237 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1239 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1240 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1241 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1243 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1244 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1246 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1247 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1248 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1249 signature and again for transmission.
1251 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1252 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1253 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1255 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1256 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1257 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1258 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1259 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1260 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1261 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1263 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1264 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1265 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1266 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1268 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1269 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1270 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1271 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1272 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1273 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1276 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1277 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1278 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1279 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1282 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1283 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1284 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1285 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1288 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1289 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1292 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1293 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1294 banner-time rejection.
1296 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1299 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1300 is the name of a transport.
1303 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1305 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1306 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1308 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1309 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1310 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1313 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1314 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1315 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1316 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1318 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1319 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1320 initial verify call returned a defer.
1322 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1323 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1325 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1326 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1328 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1329 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1331 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1332 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1334 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1335 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1338 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1339 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1341 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1342 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1343 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1345 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1346 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1347 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1348 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1350 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1351 and confused the parent.
1353 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1354 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1356 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1359 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1360 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1361 out-of-order delivery.
1363 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1364 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1365 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1368 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1369 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1372 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1373 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1374 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1376 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1377 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1378 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1379 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1380 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1381 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1383 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1384 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1385 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1387 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1388 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1389 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1391 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1392 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1393 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1394 though a different problem.
1400 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1401 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1403 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1405 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1406 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1408 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1409 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1411 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1412 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1413 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1414 before acknowledging the chunk.
1416 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1417 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1418 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1420 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1421 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1422 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1425 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1426 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1427 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1429 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1430 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1432 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1433 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1434 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1435 body hash calculated value.
1437 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1438 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1439 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1441 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1443 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1444 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1446 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1447 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1448 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1450 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1451 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1452 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1453 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1454 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1455 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1457 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1458 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1459 past that check, despite the cost.
1461 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1462 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1463 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1465 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1466 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1467 TLS library to consume.
1469 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1471 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1473 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1474 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1475 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1476 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1477 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1478 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1479 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1481 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1483 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1485 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1486 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1487 should be warning-free.
1489 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1491 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1492 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1494 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1495 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1496 general solution here.
1498 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1499 already-broken messages in the queue.
1501 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1503 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1509 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1510 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1512 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1513 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1514 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1516 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1517 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1518 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1519 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1520 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1521 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1522 if one fails this test.
1523 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1524 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1526 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1527 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1529 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1530 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1532 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1533 in rewrites and routers.
1535 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1536 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1538 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1539 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1541 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1543 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1546 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1547 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1548 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1549 connection after a verify cache hit.
1550 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1552 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1553 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1555 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1556 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1557 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1558 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1559 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1561 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1562 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1564 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1565 Previously they were not counted.
1567 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1568 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1569 that needed the lookup.
1571 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1572 distinguished as "(=".
1574 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1575 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1577 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1579 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1580 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1582 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1583 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1585 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1586 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1589 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1590 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1591 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1592 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1594 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1596 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1597 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1598 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1600 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1601 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1602 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1605 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1606 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1607 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1610 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1611 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1612 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1614 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1615 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1618 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1620 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1621 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1623 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1624 are not in the system include path.
1626 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1627 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1628 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1629 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1631 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1632 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1633 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1635 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1637 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1638 an incoming connection.
1640 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1643 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1644 fallback to "prime256v1".
1646 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1647 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1653 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1654 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1655 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1656 client dropping the TLS connection.
1658 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1659 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1661 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1662 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1663 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1664 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1667 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1668 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1669 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1670 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1671 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1672 check on the next write.
1674 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1675 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1676 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1677 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1678 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1680 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1681 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1683 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1684 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1685 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1687 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1688 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1689 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1690 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1692 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1693 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1695 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1696 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1698 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1699 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1700 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1703 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1705 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1707 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1709 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1710 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1712 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1713 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1715 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1717 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1718 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1720 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1722 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1723 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1725 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1727 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1728 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1729 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1730 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1731 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1732 they will retry in-clear.
1733 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1734 at installation time.
1736 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1737 with the $config_file variable.
1739 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1740 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1741 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1742 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1743 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1745 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1746 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1747 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1748 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1749 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1751 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1753 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1754 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1755 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1756 list order is no longer honoured.
1758 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1759 for DKIM processing.
1761 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1762 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1764 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1765 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1766 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1767 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1769 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1770 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1772 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1773 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1775 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1776 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1778 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1780 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1781 cached by the daemon.
1783 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1784 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1786 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1787 keys are given for lookup.
1789 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1790 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1791 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1792 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1794 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1795 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1796 server-side so match that on older versions.
1798 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1799 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1800 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1802 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1803 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1805 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1806 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1807 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1808 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1809 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1810 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1811 initial truncated version.
1813 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1815 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1817 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1818 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1820 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1822 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1824 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1825 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1828 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1829 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1832 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1833 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1835 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1836 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1839 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1840 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1841 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1843 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1844 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1845 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1846 extraction. Accept either.
1852 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1855 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1857 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1860 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1861 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1862 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1863 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1865 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1866 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1867 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1869 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1870 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1871 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1874 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1877 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1878 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1879 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1880 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1881 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1883 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1884 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1885 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1887 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1889 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1890 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1892 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1893 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1895 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1898 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1899 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1901 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1902 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1903 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1905 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1906 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1907 specify a port-range.
1909 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1910 timeout value per server.
1912 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1913 now have the list separator specified.
1915 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1918 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1921 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1923 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1924 rather than the verbs used.
1926 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1927 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1929 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1931 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1932 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1934 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1935 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1937 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1938 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1940 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1942 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1944 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1945 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1946 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1947 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1949 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1951 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1952 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1954 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1955 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1957 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1959 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1961 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1963 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1964 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1966 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1967 added for tls authenticator.
1969 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1975 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1976 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1977 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1978 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1979 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1980 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1981 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1983 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1984 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1985 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1986 function when detected.
1988 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1989 cause callback expansion.
1991 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1992 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1993 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1994 instead of bool when processing it.
1996 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1997 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1999 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2001 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2003 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2005 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2006 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2008 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2009 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2010 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2011 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2012 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2013 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2015 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2016 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2019 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2020 version 3.3.6 or later.
2022 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2023 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2024 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2025 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2026 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2027 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2030 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2031 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2033 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2034 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2035 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2038 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2039 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2040 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2042 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2043 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2045 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2046 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2049 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2051 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2052 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2054 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2055 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2058 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2060 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2063 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2064 output list separator was used.
2069 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2070 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2073 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2074 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2076 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2078 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2079 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2085 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2087 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2088 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2089 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2090 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2091 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2092 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2094 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2095 utilities have not been installed.
2097 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2098 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2100 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2101 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2103 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2104 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2105 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2106 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2108 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2110 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2111 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2113 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2116 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2118 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2119 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2120 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2122 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2123 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2124 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2125 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2126 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2127 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2129 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2131 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2132 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2134 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2137 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2139 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2141 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2142 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2144 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2145 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2147 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2149 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2151 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2152 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2154 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2155 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2156 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2158 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2159 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2160 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2163 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2165 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2166 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2169 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2170 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2173 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2174 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2176 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2177 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2179 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2181 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2182 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2183 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2185 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2186 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2188 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2189 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2192 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2193 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2194 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2196 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2198 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2199 Christian Aistleitner.
2201 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2203 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2204 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2206 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2207 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2209 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2210 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2212 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2213 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2215 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2216 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2218 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2219 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2220 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2222 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2224 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2225 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2228 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2230 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2231 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2238 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2240 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2241 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2243 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2246 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2247 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2250 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2252 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2253 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2254 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2255 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2256 using channel bindings instead).
2258 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2259 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2260 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2261 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2262 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2265 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2267 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2269 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2270 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2272 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2273 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2274 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2276 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2278 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2280 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2281 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2283 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2285 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2287 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2289 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2290 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2292 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2294 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2295 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2298 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2299 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2301 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2302 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2305 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2307 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2309 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2310 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2312 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2315 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2316 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2318 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2319 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2321 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2323 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2325 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2328 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2331 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2333 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2334 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2335 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2336 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2338 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2340 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2341 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2342 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2343 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2346 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2347 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2348 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2350 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2351 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2352 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2353 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2355 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2356 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2357 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2358 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2359 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2360 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2361 delivery, as in LMTP.
2363 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2364 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2366 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2368 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2372 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2373 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2374 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2375 username as equal to the username.
2377 This change corrects that bug.
2379 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2380 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2381 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2383 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2385 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2386 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2387 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2388 NULL dereference and crash.
2390 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2392 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2393 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2394 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2396 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2398 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2399 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2400 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2401 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2402 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2403 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2404 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2405 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2406 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2407 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2408 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2410 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2411 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2413 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2414 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2417 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2418 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2419 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2420 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2421 an empty string is now equivalent.
2423 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2424 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2425 not performing validation itself.
2427 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2428 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2430 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2433 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2435 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2436 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2437 other false fix of the same issue.
2438 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2441 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2442 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2444 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2445 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2446 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2448 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2449 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2450 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2452 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2454 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2456 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2457 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2459 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2462 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2463 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2464 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2465 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2466 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2468 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2469 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2471 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2472 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2475 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2476 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2477 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2478 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2480 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2482 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2483 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2484 from multiple comments on this bug.
2486 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2488 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2489 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2492 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2493 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2495 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2496 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2502 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2504 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2510 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2511 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2512 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2514 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2516 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2519 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2521 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2523 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2525 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2526 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2528 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2529 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2531 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2532 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2534 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2535 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2536 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2538 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2540 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2541 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2543 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2545 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2547 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2548 non-compliant senders.
2549 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2551 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2552 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2553 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2555 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2556 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2557 in spool file corruption.
2559 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2560 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2561 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2564 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2565 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2566 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2568 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2569 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2571 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2573 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2575 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2577 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2578 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2579 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2581 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2582 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2583 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2584 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2586 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2587 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2589 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2590 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2591 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2592 resolver implementation change.
2594 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2595 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2597 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2599 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2601 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2602 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2604 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2605 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2607 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2608 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2610 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2611 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2612 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2613 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2614 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2616 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2618 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2619 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2620 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2622 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2624 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2625 read-only, out of scope).
2626 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2628 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2629 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2630 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2631 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2633 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2635 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2636 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2637 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2638 real issues in debug logging.
2640 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2641 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2643 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2644 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2645 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2647 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2648 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2649 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2652 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2653 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2655 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2656 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2657 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2658 needs to override this, it can.
2660 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2661 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2662 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2664 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2665 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2666 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2667 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2669 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2675 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2676 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2678 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2680 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2683 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2684 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2686 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2687 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2688 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2690 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2691 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2692 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2693 not safe for signals.
2695 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2696 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2697 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2698 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2701 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2703 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2704 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2705 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2706 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2707 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2709 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2710 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2711 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2712 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2713 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2714 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2716 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2717 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2718 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2719 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2721 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2722 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2723 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2724 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2726 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2727 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2728 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2729 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2730 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2731 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2732 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2733 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2734 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2736 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2737 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2738 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2739 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2741 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2742 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2743 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2744 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2745 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2746 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2747 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2748 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2749 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2750 details in the main documentation.
2752 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2754 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2756 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2757 repository when doing development or release builds.
2759 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2760 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2762 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2763 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2766 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2768 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2769 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2771 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2772 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2774 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2775 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2777 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2778 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2780 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2781 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2783 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2785 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2788 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2789 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2790 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2792 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2794 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2796 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2797 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2803 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2805 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2806 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2808 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2810 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2812 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2815 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2816 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2818 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2819 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2821 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2822 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2824 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2827 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2828 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2830 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2831 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2832 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2833 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2835 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2836 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2842 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2845 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2846 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2847 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2849 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2850 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2852 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2853 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2854 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2856 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2857 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2859 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2860 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2862 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2863 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2865 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2866 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2868 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2869 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2871 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2874 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2875 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2877 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2878 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2880 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2881 SQL string expansion failure details.
2882 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2884 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2885 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2887 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2888 extern declarations in function scope.
2889 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2891 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2892 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2893 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2896 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2897 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2899 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2900 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2902 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2903 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2905 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2906 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2908 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2909 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2912 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2914 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2916 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2917 Patch by Simon Arlott
2919 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2920 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2926 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2927 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2929 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2930 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2932 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2934 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2935 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2936 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2938 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2939 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2940 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2942 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2943 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2944 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2945 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2947 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2948 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2949 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2950 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2952 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2953 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2954 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2957 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2960 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2961 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2962 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2963 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2964 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2970 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2971 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2972 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2974 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2975 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2977 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2979 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2981 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2983 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2985 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2987 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2988 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2989 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2990 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2992 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2993 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2994 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2995 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2996 more caution in buffer sizes.
2998 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3000 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3002 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3004 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3006 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3008 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3010 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3012 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3013 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3014 ignore trailing whitespace.
3016 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3018 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3021 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3022 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3024 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3025 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3026 Notification from John Horne.
3028 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3031 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3032 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3035 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3038 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3039 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3040 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3042 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3043 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3044 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3047 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3048 option (effectively making it always true).
3050 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3051 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3053 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3054 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3056 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3057 run-time user, instead of root.
3059 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3060 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3062 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3063 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3066 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3067 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3068 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3070 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3072 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3078 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3079 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3082 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3083 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3086 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3087 Patch from Alain Williams
3089 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3091 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3092 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3094 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3095 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3097 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3099 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3101 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3102 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3104 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3106 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3108 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3109 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3110 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3112 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3113 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3115 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3116 Patch by Simon Arlott
3118 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3119 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3125 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3127 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3129 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3131 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3133 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3139 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3140 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3142 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3143 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3146 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3147 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3148 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3150 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3151 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3153 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3154 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3155 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3156 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3158 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3159 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3160 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3162 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3164 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3166 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3167 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3169 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3171 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3172 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3173 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3174 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3176 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3177 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3179 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3181 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3183 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3184 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3186 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3187 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3189 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3190 that they are available at delivery time.
3192 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3194 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3195 incoming_port log selectors.
3197 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3198 setting expands to an empty string.
3200 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3201 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3203 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3204 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3206 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3207 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3209 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3210 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3212 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3213 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3215 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3216 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3218 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3220 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3221 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3223 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3224 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3226 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3228 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3229 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3231 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3233 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3235 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3238 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3239 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3241 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3242 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3244 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3245 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3247 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3248 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3250 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3251 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3253 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3254 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3256 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3257 plus update to original patch.
3259 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3261 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3262 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3264 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3266 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3268 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3270 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3272 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3273 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3275 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3276 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3278 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3279 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3281 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3282 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3284 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3286 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3288 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3290 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3296 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3297 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3298 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3300 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3301 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3302 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3303 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3304 build errors in sieve.c.
3306 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3307 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3308 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3310 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3312 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3314 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3316 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3322 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3324 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3325 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3326 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3327 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3328 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3329 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3330 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3331 for iplsearch lookups.
3333 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3334 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3335 previously such lookups could never work.
3337 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3338 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3339 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3341 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3344 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3345 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3346 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3347 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3348 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3349 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3351 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3352 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3354 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3355 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3356 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3357 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3358 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3359 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3361 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3364 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3366 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3367 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3370 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3371 by clients under certain conditions.
3373 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3374 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3376 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3378 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3379 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3381 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3383 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3385 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3387 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3388 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3390 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3392 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3393 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3395 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3397 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3399 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3400 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3401 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3402 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3404 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3405 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3406 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3408 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3409 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3411 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3413 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3415 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3417 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3418 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3419 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3425 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3426 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3429 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3430 issue a MAIL command.
3432 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3434 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3436 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3437 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3438 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3439 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3440 item. This has been fixed.
3442 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3443 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3445 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3446 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3448 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3449 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3450 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3452 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3454 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3455 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3456 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3457 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3458 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3460 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3461 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3462 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3464 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3465 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3466 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3467 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3469 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3471 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3473 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3474 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3475 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3476 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3477 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3479 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3481 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3482 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3483 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3486 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3488 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3490 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3492 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3494 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3496 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3497 no_callout_flush is set.
3499 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3500 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3501 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3504 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3506 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3507 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3508 other ACL rejections are.
3510 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3511 with slight modification.
3513 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3514 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3516 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3517 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3520 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3521 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3523 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3525 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3526 expansion side effects.
3528 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3529 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3530 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3533 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3534 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3535 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3537 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3538 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3539 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3540 were accidentally chopped off.
3542 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3543 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3544 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3545 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3546 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3547 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3548 pipelining has not been advertised.
3550 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3552 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3553 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3554 This has been fixed.
3556 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3557 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3558 reported on Solaris.
3560 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3561 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3562 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3563 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3564 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3565 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3566 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3568 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3571 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3573 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3575 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3576 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3577 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3578 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3579 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3580 criteria to be more general.
3582 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3583 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3584 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3585 host_all_ignored option.
3587 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3588 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3589 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3590 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3591 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3592 is what is supposed to happen).
3594 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3595 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3596 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3597 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3598 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3601 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3602 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3603 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3604 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3605 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3606 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3609 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3611 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3612 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3614 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3615 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3617 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3619 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3621 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3622 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3623 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3624 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3625 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3626 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3627 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3628 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3629 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3630 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3631 least in a lot of common cases.
3633 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3634 advertised in response to EHLO.
3640 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3641 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3643 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3644 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3646 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3647 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3648 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3650 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3651 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3652 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3653 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3654 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3660 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3661 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3664 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3665 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3666 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3668 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3669 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3670 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3671 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3672 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3673 rather than extend the field.
3679 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3680 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3681 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3682 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3685 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3686 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3687 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3689 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3690 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3691 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3693 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3694 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3695 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3698 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3699 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3700 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3701 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3702 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3703 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3704 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3705 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3706 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3707 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3708 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3710 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3713 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3714 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3715 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3716 ignores EPIPE as well.
3718 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3719 (quoted-printable decoding).
3721 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3722 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3724 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3726 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3728 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3730 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3731 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3733 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3736 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3737 miscellaneous code fixes
3739 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3742 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3743 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3744 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3745 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3746 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3747 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3748 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3749 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3751 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3752 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3753 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3754 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3756 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3757 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3758 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3759 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3760 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3761 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3762 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3763 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3764 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3766 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3769 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3770 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3771 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3772 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3773 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3774 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3775 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3776 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3778 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3779 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3782 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3783 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3784 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3785 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3786 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3787 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3788 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3789 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3790 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3791 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3792 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3793 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3794 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3796 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3797 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3798 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3799 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3800 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3801 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3802 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3804 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3805 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3806 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3807 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3808 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3809 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3810 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3811 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3812 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3813 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3815 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3816 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3817 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3818 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3819 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3821 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3822 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3823 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3824 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3825 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3826 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3827 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3829 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3830 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3831 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3832 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3833 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3834 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3837 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3838 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3839 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3842 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3843 if any retry times were supplied.
3845 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3846 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3847 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3849 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3851 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3853 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3854 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3855 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3856 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3857 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3858 before) are ignored.
3860 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3861 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3863 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3864 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3865 committing the later change.]
3867 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3868 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3869 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3870 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3871 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3872 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3873 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3874 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3875 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3877 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3878 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3879 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3880 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3881 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3882 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3883 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3884 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3885 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3887 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3888 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3889 hammering the server.
3891 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3892 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3894 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3896 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3897 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3898 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3900 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3901 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3902 one case where this was not true.
3904 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3905 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3906 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3907 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3910 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3911 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3912 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3913 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3914 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3915 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3916 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3917 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3918 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3921 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3922 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3923 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3924 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3926 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3927 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3929 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3930 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3931 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3933 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3935 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3937 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3939 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3940 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3941 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3942 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3944 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3945 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3947 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3948 be meaningful with "accept".
3950 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3951 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3953 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3954 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3955 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3957 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3958 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3959 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3960 there is data to show.
3961 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3963 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3964 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3965 as well as the number of messages.
3967 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3968 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3969 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3971 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3972 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3973 have a flag are now skipped.
3975 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3976 Added the -emptyok flag.
3978 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3979 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3981 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3982 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3983 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3985 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3988 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3989 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3991 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3993 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3994 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3996 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3998 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3999 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4000 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4001 contravention of the specifications.
4003 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4004 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4005 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4007 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4008 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4009 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4011 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4013 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4014 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4015 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4016 some point in the past.
4018 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4019 transport during callout processing was broken.
4021 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4022 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4024 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4025 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4027 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4028 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4030 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4036 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4037 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4039 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4040 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4041 there is data to show.
4042 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4044 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4045 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4047 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4048 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4050 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4051 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4053 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4054 submissions from trusted users.
4056 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4057 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4059 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4060 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4061 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4062 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4063 there is now a framework to start from.
4065 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4066 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4067 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4069 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4071 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4073 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4075 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4076 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4077 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4079 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4082 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4083 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4084 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4086 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4087 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4088 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4091 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4092 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4093 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4094 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4095 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4097 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4098 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4100 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4102 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4103 operations in malware.c.
4105 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4108 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4109 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4110 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4113 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4114 statements to "add_header".
4116 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4117 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4119 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4120 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4123 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4127 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4128 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4129 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4132 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4133 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4135 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4136 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4138 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4139 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4140 any possible encoding problems.
4142 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4143 but not after initializing Perl.
4145 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4146 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4147 apparently, which is not desirable.
4149 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4152 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4155 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4157 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4158 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4159 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4160 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4162 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4163 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4164 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4166 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4167 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4168 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4171 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4172 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4173 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4174 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4175 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4181 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4182 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4184 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4187 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4188 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4189 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4190 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4191 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4192 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4193 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4194 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4197 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4199 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4200 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4201 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4203 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4204 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4205 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4208 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4209 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4211 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4212 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4213 option (which defaults to 0600).
4215 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4217 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4218 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4219 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4220 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4221 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4222 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4223 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4225 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4231 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4232 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4233 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4234 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4235 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4236 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4239 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4240 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4242 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4244 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4245 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4246 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4247 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4248 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4251 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4252 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4254 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4255 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4256 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4257 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4258 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4260 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4261 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4262 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4263 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4265 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4266 be the same on different OS.
4268 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4271 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4272 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4274 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4277 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4278 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4279 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4280 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4281 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4282 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4285 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4286 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4287 when Exim was called.
4289 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4290 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4292 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4293 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4294 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4295 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4297 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4298 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4299 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4300 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4303 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4304 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4305 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4307 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4308 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4309 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4311 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4314 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4315 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4316 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4317 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4318 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4319 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4320 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4321 values from the SRV records were lost.
4323 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4324 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4325 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4327 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4328 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4329 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4331 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4332 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4333 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4334 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4335 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4336 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4337 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4338 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4339 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4340 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4342 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4343 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4344 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4346 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4347 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4349 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4350 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4351 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4352 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4355 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4356 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4357 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4359 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4360 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4361 PH/23 above applies.
4363 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4364 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4365 (for which there is an explicit test).
4367 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4369 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4370 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4371 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4372 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4373 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4375 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4376 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4377 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4378 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4380 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4381 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4382 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4384 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4386 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4388 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4389 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4390 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4392 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4393 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4394 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4395 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4396 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4398 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4399 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4400 the message gets confusing).
4402 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4403 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4404 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4405 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4407 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4408 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4409 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4410 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4413 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4414 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4415 the different processes.
4417 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4419 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4421 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4422 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4424 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4425 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4427 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4428 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4429 messages matching specified criteria.
4431 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4433 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4434 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4436 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4437 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4438 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4439 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4440 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4441 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4442 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4443 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4444 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4445 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4447 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4448 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4449 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4451 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4453 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4454 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4455 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4456 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4457 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4458 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4459 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4462 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4463 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4465 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4467 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4469 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4471 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4472 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4473 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4474 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4475 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4476 size of the count of files.
4478 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4480 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4483 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4484 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4485 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4486 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4488 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4489 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4490 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4492 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4493 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4494 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4495 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4496 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4498 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4499 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4501 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4502 will now be deprecated.
4504 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4506 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4507 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4508 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4510 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4511 with very large, slow to parse queues
4513 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4515 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4517 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4518 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4519 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4522 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4523 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4524 Sieve code now uses this.
4526 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4527 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4529 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4530 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4532 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4534 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4535 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4536 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4537 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4538 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4540 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4541 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4542 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4543 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4545 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4547 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4549 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4550 is preferred over IPv4.
4552 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4553 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4554 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4555 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4556 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4557 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4558 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4560 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4561 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4562 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4564 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4566 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4567 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4568 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4569 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4570 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4571 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4572 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4573 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4574 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4575 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4576 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4578 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4579 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4580 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4586 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4588 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4589 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4591 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4592 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4593 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4595 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4597 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4600 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4603 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4604 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4605 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4608 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4609 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4611 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4612 inside the third argument.
4614 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4615 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4618 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4619 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4621 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4622 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4624 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4626 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4627 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4630 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4632 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4633 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4634 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4635 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4636 identical. For example:
4638 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4640 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4641 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4642 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4644 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4645 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4646 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4647 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4649 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4650 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4651 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4654 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4656 o fixes some comments
4657 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4658 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4659 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4660 and documents the missing references header update
4664 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4665 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4668 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4669 Electronic Mail") by including:
4671 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4673 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4674 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4675 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4676 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4677 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4679 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4681 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4683 The auto-replied keyword:
4685 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4686 message by an automatic process,
4688 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4690 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4691 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4693 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4694 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4697 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4698 to the default Received: header definition.
4700 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4702 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4703 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4704 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4706 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4707 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4708 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4710 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4711 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4712 and treats the condition as false.
4714 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4716 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4717 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4718 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4719 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4720 not changing the active code.
4722 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4723 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4725 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4726 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4728 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4731 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4732 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4733 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4734 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4735 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4736 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4737 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4738 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4739 the text comparison.
4741 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4742 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4743 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4744 The same fix has been applied.
4750 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4751 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4754 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4755 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4757 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4759 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4760 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4761 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4762 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4763 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4765 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4766 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4767 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4768 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4771 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4779 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4780 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4782 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4784 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4786 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4787 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4788 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4790 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4791 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4792 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4794 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4795 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4798 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4799 ${stat: expansion item.
4801 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4802 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4804 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4805 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4808 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4810 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4813 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4814 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4816 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4818 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4819 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4820 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4821 the end of the subprocess.
4823 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4824 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4825 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4826 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4827 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4829 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4831 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4833 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4834 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4836 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4838 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4840 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4841 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4844 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4846 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4847 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4848 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4850 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4851 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4853 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4854 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4856 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4857 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4859 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4860 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4862 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4863 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4864 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4865 contributed by a Radius user.
4867 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4868 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4870 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4871 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4873 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4876 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4877 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4880 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4881 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4882 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4883 header lines when this was not necessary.
4885 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4887 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4888 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4889 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4892 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4895 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4896 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4897 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4898 return code was incorrect.
4900 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4902 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4904 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4906 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4908 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4909 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4910 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4911 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4912 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4915 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4917 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4918 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4919 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4920 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4921 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4922 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4923 which is clearly wrong.
4925 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4927 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4928 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4929 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4932 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4933 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4935 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4937 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4938 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4940 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4941 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4943 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4944 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4946 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4947 recipients, not senders.
4949 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4950 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4952 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4954 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4956 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4957 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4958 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4959 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4961 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4963 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4964 clock is set back in time.
4966 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4967 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4969 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4970 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4972 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4973 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4976 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4977 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4980 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4983 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4985 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4986 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4987 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4989 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4990 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4991 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4992 helo verification defer as a failure.
4994 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4995 actual error message.
5001 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5003 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5004 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5005 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5006 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5008 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5010 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5011 can still be requested.
5013 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5014 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5015 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5016 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5018 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5019 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5020 circumstances, but probably never did.
5022 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5023 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5024 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5027 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5029 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5030 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5032 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5034 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5036 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5037 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5038 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5039 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5040 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5041 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5043 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5044 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5045 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5046 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5047 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5048 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5050 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5051 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5053 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5054 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5056 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5057 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5059 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5061 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5063 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5065 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5067 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5069 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5071 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5073 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5074 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5075 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5077 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5078 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5079 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5080 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5082 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5083 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5084 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5086 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5087 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5088 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5089 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5091 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5092 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5095 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5096 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5097 should work with maildirs and everything.
5099 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5100 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5102 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5105 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5106 function for BDB 4.3.
5108 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5110 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5111 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5114 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5115 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5116 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5117 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5118 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5119 formatting function string_vformat().
5121 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5122 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5123 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5124 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5125 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5126 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5127 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5128 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5130 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5131 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5134 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5135 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5137 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5138 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5139 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5140 test. It is now used for both.
5142 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5143 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5144 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5145 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5146 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5147 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5149 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5150 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5151 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5154 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5155 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5156 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5158 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5159 experimental DomainKeys support:
5161 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5162 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5163 the control was given.
5165 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5167 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5169 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5171 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5172 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5173 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5176 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5177 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5178 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5179 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5180 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5181 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5184 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5185 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5186 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5187 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5188 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5189 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5191 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5192 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5193 do -d+all out of habit.
5195 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5196 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5199 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5200 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5201 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5202 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5203 record types that Exim uses.
5205 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5206 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5207 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5208 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5209 non-existent file that was broken.
5211 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5212 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5214 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5215 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5216 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5218 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5220 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5221 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5222 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5223 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5224 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5227 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5228 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5229 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5230 at a slight CPU cost.
5232 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5233 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5235 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5238 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5240 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5241 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5247 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5248 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5250 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5252 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5254 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5255 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5257 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5258 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5259 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5260 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5261 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5262 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5265 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5266 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5267 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5268 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5271 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5272 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5273 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5274 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5275 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5276 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5277 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5280 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5281 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5283 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5284 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5285 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5286 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5287 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5288 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5290 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5291 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5292 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5293 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5295 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5298 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5299 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5301 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5302 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5303 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5304 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5307 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5309 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5310 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5312 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5313 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5314 to what was transported.)
5316 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5318 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5319 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5320 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5321 spamd_address settings.
5323 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5324 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5325 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5326 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5327 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5329 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5331 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5332 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5333 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5334 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5335 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5337 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5338 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5340 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5341 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5342 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5343 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5344 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5345 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5346 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5349 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5350 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5351 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5352 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5353 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5354 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5355 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5358 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5360 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5361 driver and ACL definitions.
5363 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5364 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5366 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5367 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5368 understands it better than I do:
5370 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5371 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5373 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5374 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5375 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5376 => three warnings about OTP not working
5377 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5379 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5380 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5381 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5382 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5384 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5385 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5387 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5388 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5389 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5391 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5392 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5395 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5396 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5399 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5400 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5401 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5403 warn !verify = sender
5404 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5406 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5407 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5409 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5411 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5412 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5414 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5415 nomenclature these days.)
5417 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5418 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5420 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5421 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5422 . First host does not offer TLS;
5423 . First host accepts first address;
5424 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5425 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5426 . Second host accepts second address.
5427 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5428 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5431 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5432 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5433 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5434 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5435 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5437 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5438 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5440 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5441 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5443 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5444 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5445 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5447 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5448 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5451 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5453 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5454 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5455 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5456 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5457 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5458 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5459 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5461 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5462 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5463 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5464 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5465 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5467 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5468 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5471 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5472 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5473 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5474 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5475 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5476 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5478 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5480 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5481 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5482 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5483 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5484 printable escape sequences.
5486 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5487 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5490 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5491 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5494 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5495 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5496 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5497 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5498 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5500 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5501 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5502 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5504 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5506 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5507 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5510 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5511 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5512 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5513 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5514 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5515 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5516 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5517 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5518 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5521 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5522 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5523 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5524 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5528 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5529 ----------------------------------------
5531 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5532 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5533 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5534 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5535 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5536 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5539 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5540 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5541 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5542 historical information.
5548 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5550 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5551 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5553 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5554 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5557 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5558 filter fails to execute.
5560 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5561 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5562 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5563 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5564 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5566 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5568 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5569 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5570 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5571 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5573 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5574 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5575 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5576 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5577 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5579 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5581 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5583 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5584 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5585 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5586 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5588 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5589 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5590 sender verification.
5592 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5593 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5595 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5597 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5600 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5601 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5603 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5604 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5606 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5607 information about exactly what failed.
5609 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5611 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5612 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5613 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5615 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5616 It is now set to "smtps".
5618 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5619 ignore_target_hosts.
5621 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5622 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5623 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5624 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5627 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5628 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5629 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5631 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5632 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5633 wake it up if nothing else does.
5635 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5636 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5637 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5640 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5641 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5643 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5645 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5646 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5647 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5648 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5649 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5650 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5651 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5652 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5654 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5655 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5656 than one IP address.
5658 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5659 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5660 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5661 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5663 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5664 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5665 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5666 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5667 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5670 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5671 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5672 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5673 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5675 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5676 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5679 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5680 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5681 $sender_host_address.
5683 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5684 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5685 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5686 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5687 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5690 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5692 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5693 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5695 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5696 just the host names, not the priorities.
5698 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5699 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5700 controlled by a keyword.
5702 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5703 multiple records are returned.
5705 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5706 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5709 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5711 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5712 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5714 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5715 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5716 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5718 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5720 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5722 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5724 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5725 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5726 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5727 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5728 because the tests only now provoked it.
5730 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5731 (this can affect the format of dates).
5733 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5734 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5735 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5736 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5738 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5740 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5741 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5742 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5743 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5745 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5746 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5747 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5749 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5752 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5753 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5754 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5755 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5756 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5757 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5760 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5761 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5762 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5765 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5766 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5767 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5769 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5770 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5771 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5772 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5773 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5774 so I produce this patch..."
5776 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5777 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5780 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5781 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5782 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5783 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5786 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5788 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5789 long debug lines gets shown.
5791 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5792 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5794 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5796 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5797 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5798 of $primary_hostname.
5800 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5801 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5802 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5803 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5804 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5805 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5806 by change 4.50/55 above.
5808 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5809 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5810 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5811 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5812 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5813 running as the user.
5816 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5817 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5818 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5821 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5822 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5824 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5825 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5826 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5827 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5828 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5830 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5831 This has been fixed.
5833 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5834 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5835 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5836 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5839 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5841 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5842 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5843 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5844 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5846 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5847 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5849 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5850 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5851 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5853 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5854 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5855 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5858 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5859 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5860 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5862 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5863 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5864 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5865 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5867 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5868 during host lookups.
5870 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5871 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5873 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5875 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5876 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5877 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5878 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5879 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5882 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5883 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5885 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5886 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5887 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5889 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5891 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5892 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5893 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5894 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5895 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5896 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5899 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5900 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5901 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5902 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5903 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5905 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5908 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5910 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5911 "vacation" handling.
5913 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5914 OS variants using glibc.
5916 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5919 ----------------------------------------------------
5920 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5921 ----------------------------------------------------
5927 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5928 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5931 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5932 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5935 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5936 filter fails to execute.
5938 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5939 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5940 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5941 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5942 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5944 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5945 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5946 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5947 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5949 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5950 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5951 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5952 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5953 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5955 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5957 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5958 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5959 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5960 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5962 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5963 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5964 sender verification.
5966 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5967 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5969 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5970 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5972 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5973 ignore_target_hosts.
5975 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5976 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5977 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5978 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5981 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5982 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5983 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5985 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5986 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5987 wake it up if nothing else does.
5989 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5990 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5991 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5994 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5995 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5997 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5999 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6000 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6003 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6004 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6007 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6008 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6009 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6010 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6011 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6014 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6015 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6018 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6019 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6020 $sender_host_address.
6022 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6024 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6025 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6026 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6028 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6031 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6032 (this can affect the format of dates).
6034 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6035 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6036 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6037 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6039 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6040 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6041 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6043 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6044 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6045 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6046 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6048 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6049 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6050 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6052 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6055 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6056 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6057 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6058 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6059 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6060 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6063 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6064 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6065 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6066 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6069 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6070 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6071 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6072 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6073 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6074 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6075 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6077 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6078 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6079 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6080 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6081 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6082 running as the user.
6085 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6086 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6087 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6090 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6091 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6092 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6093 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6094 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6096 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6097 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6098 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6099 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6102 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6103 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6104 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6105 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6106 because the tests only now provoked it.
6112 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6113 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6114 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6115 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6116 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6117 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6118 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6120 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6121 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6124 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6126 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6128 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6129 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6132 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6133 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6134 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6135 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6136 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6138 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6139 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6141 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6143 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6145 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6148 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6149 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6151 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6152 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6153 affecting debugging statements).
6155 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6157 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6158 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6159 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6160 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6161 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6162 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6163 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6164 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6165 after the received time, and all would be well.
6167 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6168 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6169 condition in an expansion string.
6171 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6173 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6174 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6175 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6176 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6177 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6178 job under whatever limits there are.
6180 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6182 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6185 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6186 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6187 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6188 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6191 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6192 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6193 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6194 binary data in such strings.
6196 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6198 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6199 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6200 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6201 failure, which is pointless.
6203 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6205 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6207 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6208 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6209 Sender: header lines.
6211 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6212 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6213 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6215 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6216 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6217 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6218 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6219 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6222 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6223 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6224 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6225 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6226 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6228 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6229 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6230 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6233 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6234 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6236 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6237 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6239 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6241 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6243 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6245 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6248 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6250 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6252 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6253 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6254 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6255 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6257 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6258 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6264 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6265 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6266 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6268 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6269 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6270 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6271 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6272 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6273 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6275 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6276 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6277 verification failure".
6279 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6280 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6281 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6282 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6284 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6285 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6286 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6287 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6288 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6289 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6290 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6291 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6292 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6293 treated as a timeout.
6295 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6296 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6297 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6298 not set for Exim filters).
6300 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6301 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6302 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6304 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6306 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6307 try to make them clearer.
6309 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6310 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6312 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6314 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6316 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6317 only the Cygwin environment.
6319 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6320 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6321 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6322 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6323 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6325 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6326 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6327 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6328 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6329 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6330 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6331 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6333 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6334 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6336 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6338 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6339 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6340 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6342 To: susanne@some.where
6344 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6345 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6346 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6347 of addresses in From: header lines).
6349 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6350 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6351 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6353 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6354 treated as non-personal.
6356 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6357 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6359 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6361 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6363 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6364 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6365 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6367 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6368 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6370 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6371 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6372 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6373 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6374 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6375 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6377 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6378 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6379 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6380 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6381 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6382 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6383 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6384 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6386 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6388 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6389 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6391 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6392 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6393 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6395 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6396 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6398 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6399 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6400 rather than long int.
6402 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6404 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6410 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6411 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6412 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6413 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6414 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6415 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6421 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6422 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6424 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6425 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6426 socklen_t is defined.
6428 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6431 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6434 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6435 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6436 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6437 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6438 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6440 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6441 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6442 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6443 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6445 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6446 of flapping under certain conditions.
6448 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6449 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6450 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6452 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6454 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6456 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6457 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6458 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6459 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6461 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6462 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6463 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6464 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6465 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6466 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6467 preserved with the message after it was received.
6469 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6470 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6471 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6472 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6473 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6474 test suite worked just fine.
6476 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6477 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6478 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6480 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6481 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6484 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6485 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6486 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6487 does not fully solve it.
6489 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6490 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6491 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6492 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6493 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6495 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6496 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6497 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6499 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6500 string, for example:
6502 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6504 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6505 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6506 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6507 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6508 the routers could not see them.
6510 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6511 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6513 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6514 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6517 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6518 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6519 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6520 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6521 that needed quoting.
6523 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6524 was not being matched caselessly.
6526 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6529 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6530 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6531 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6532 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6533 when use_sender is false.
6535 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6537 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6539 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6541 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6542 the configuration file.
6544 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6545 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6547 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6549 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6550 bytes in the message body.
6552 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6553 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6556 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6558 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6560 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6561 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6562 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6563 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6570 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6571 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6573 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6574 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6575 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6576 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6577 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6579 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6580 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6582 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6583 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6584 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6586 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6587 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6588 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6590 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6593 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6594 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6595 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6596 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6597 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6598 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6599 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6605 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6606 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6607 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6608 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6609 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6610 default (and expected) setting.
6612 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6613 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6614 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6615 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6617 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6618 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6620 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6623 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6624 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6625 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6626 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6627 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6628 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6630 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6631 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6632 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6634 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6635 part (NOT match_host).
6637 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6639 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6640 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6641 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6642 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6643 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6644 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6645 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6646 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6647 the same named file.
6649 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6650 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6653 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6654 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6655 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6656 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6659 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6660 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6661 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6663 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6665 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6667 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6669 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6670 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6672 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6673 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6674 before starting the TLS session.
6676 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6678 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6679 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6681 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6682 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6683 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6684 colon in the middle).
6690 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6691 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6692 multiple configurations are in use.
6694 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6695 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6696 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6697 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6698 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6699 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6701 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6702 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6704 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6705 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6706 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6708 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6709 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6712 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6713 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6715 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6717 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6718 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6720 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6728 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6729 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6730 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6731 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6732 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6734 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6737 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6738 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6739 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6740 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6741 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6742 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6744 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6745 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6746 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6747 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6748 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6749 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6750 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6753 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6754 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6755 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6756 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6757 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6759 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6761 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6762 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6763 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6765 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6767 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6768 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6769 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6772 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6773 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6775 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6776 Three changes have been made:
6778 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6779 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6780 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6781 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6782 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6784 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6787 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6788 the modified behaviour.
6794 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6797 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6798 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6800 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6801 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6802 try to track down a specific problem.
6804 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6805 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6806 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6808 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6811 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6812 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6813 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6814 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6815 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6816 some earlier ones do not.
6818 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6820 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6821 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6822 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6823 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6824 address literals are enabled, of course).
6826 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6828 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6829 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6830 by a command such as
6834 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6836 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6838 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6839 remained set. It is now erased.
6841 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6842 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6844 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6845 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6846 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6847 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6848 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6849 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6850 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6851 appropriate error code.
6853 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6854 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6855 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6856 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6857 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6858 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6860 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6861 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6862 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6864 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6865 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6866 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6867 terminate the header.
6869 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6870 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6871 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6873 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6874 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6875 (4.30/29). In particular:
6877 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6880 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6881 to write a maildirsize file.
6883 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6884 the transport, the new value overrides.
6886 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6889 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6890 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6891 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6894 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6895 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6896 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6899 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6900 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6901 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6903 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6904 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6907 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6908 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6909 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6911 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6913 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6915 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6917 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6918 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6921 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6922 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6923 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6924 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6925 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6926 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6927 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6930 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6931 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6932 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6933 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6934 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6937 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6938 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6939 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6940 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6941 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6942 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6943 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6944 cached value only when the same options are set.
6946 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6948 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6949 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6950 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6951 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6952 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6954 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6955 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6956 it is clearly obsolete.
6958 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6961 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6962 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6963 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6966 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6967 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6968 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6969 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6970 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6972 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6973 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6974 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6975 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6977 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6979 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6981 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6982 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6985 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6986 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6987 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6988 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6989 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6990 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6993 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6994 with the -f command-line option.
6996 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6997 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6998 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6999 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7000 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7001 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7003 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7004 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7007 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7008 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7009 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7010 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7011 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7012 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7013 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7014 buffer is too small.
7016 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7017 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7019 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7020 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7021 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7022 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7023 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7024 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7025 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7026 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7027 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7029 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7030 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7031 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7033 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7034 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7037 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7038 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7039 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7040 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7041 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7043 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7044 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7045 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7046 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7049 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7051 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7053 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7054 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7056 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7057 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7058 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7060 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7061 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7062 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7063 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7064 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7066 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7067 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7068 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7069 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7070 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7071 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7072 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7074 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7075 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7076 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7077 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7078 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7079 the test of how many are available.
7081 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7082 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7083 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7084 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7085 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7086 new message is started.
7088 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7089 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7091 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7092 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7094 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7095 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7096 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7099 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7100 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7101 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7102 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7103 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7104 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7105 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7107 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7108 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7109 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7110 interpreted as octal.
7112 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7115 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7116 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7117 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7118 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7119 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7120 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7122 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7123 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7124 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7125 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7127 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7128 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7129 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7130 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7132 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7133 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7136 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7137 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7139 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7141 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7142 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7143 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7144 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7146 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7147 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7148 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7149 supplied", which is not helpful.
7151 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7152 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7153 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7155 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7156 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7157 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7158 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7159 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7160 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7161 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7162 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7164 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7165 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7166 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7167 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7168 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7170 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7171 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7172 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7173 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7174 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7175 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7177 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7178 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7179 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7181 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7183 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7184 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7185 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7188 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7190 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7191 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7192 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7193 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7194 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7195 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7196 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7197 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7199 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7200 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7201 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7202 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7203 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7205 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7208 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7209 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7210 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7211 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7212 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7213 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7214 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7215 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7216 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7222 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7223 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7224 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7226 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7229 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7230 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7231 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7233 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7234 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7235 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7236 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7237 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7238 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7240 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7241 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7242 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7243 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7244 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7245 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7246 the Exim test suite.
7248 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7249 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7250 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7251 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7253 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7254 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7255 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7256 specify it in this variable.
7258 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7259 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7260 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7261 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7263 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7264 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7265 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7266 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7268 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7269 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7270 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7271 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7272 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7274 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7276 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7279 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7280 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7281 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7282 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7283 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7285 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7286 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7288 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7289 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7290 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7291 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7292 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7294 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7295 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7297 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7298 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7299 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7301 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7302 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7304 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7305 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7307 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7308 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7309 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7311 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7312 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7314 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7315 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7316 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7317 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7319 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7321 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7322 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7323 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7324 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7326 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7328 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7329 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7331 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7333 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7334 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7335 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7336 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7337 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7338 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7340 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7342 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7343 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7346 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7348 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7349 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7351 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7352 550 Sender verify failed
7354 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7355 the final line of the response.
7357 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7358 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7359 all other user lookups.
7361 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7364 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7365 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7366 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7367 result into an int without checking.
7369 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7370 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7371 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7373 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7374 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7375 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7376 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7378 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7381 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7382 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7384 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7385 to the empty sender.
7387 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7388 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7389 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7390 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7391 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7392 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7393 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7396 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7397 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7398 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7399 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7402 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7403 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7405 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7408 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7409 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7411 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7413 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7414 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7417 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7418 as soon as it is encountered.
7420 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7422 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7425 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7426 recognizes a tab character.
7428 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7429 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7430 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7431 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7433 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7435 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7438 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7440 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7442 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7443 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7446 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7447 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7448 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7449 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7450 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7452 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7453 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7455 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7456 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7457 list (.included file names were always shown).
7459 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7460 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7461 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7464 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7465 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7467 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7469 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7471 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7473 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7474 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7475 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7476 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7477 failures to open the logs.
7479 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7480 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7481 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7482 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7483 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7484 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7485 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7491 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7492 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7493 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7496 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7497 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7498 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7500 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7501 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7502 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7504 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7505 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7506 causing some misleading effects.
7508 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7509 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7510 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7512 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7513 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7514 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7515 queue-runner function directly.
7521 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7524 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7525 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7526 was always written to the default place.
7528 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7529 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7530 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7532 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7534 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7536 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7537 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7538 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7540 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7541 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7544 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7545 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7546 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7548 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7549 command line option is disabled.
7551 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7552 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7554 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7556 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7558 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7559 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7561 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7563 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7564 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7565 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7566 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7567 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7568 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7570 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7571 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7574 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7575 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7577 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7578 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7580 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7581 received was valid base64.
7583 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7584 name of the variable that was being set.
7586 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7588 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7589 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7590 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7591 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7592 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7593 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7595 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7597 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7598 nor realm was specified.
7600 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7601 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7602 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7603 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7605 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7606 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7607 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7609 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7610 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7611 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7613 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7614 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7615 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7616 some systems use these upper case variants.
7618 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7619 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7620 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7621 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7623 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7625 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7626 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7628 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7629 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7632 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7634 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7635 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7636 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7637 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7639 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7642 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7643 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7644 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7646 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7647 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7649 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7650 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7651 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7652 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7654 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7655 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7656 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7658 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7660 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7661 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7662 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7663 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7666 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7667 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7668 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7670 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7672 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7673 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7675 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7676 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7678 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7679 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7680 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7681 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7682 when emails are that large.
7689 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7690 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7692 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7693 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7694 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7696 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7697 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7698 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7700 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7701 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7702 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7703 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7704 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7706 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7707 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7708 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7709 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7710 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7713 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7714 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7715 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7716 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7717 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7718 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7719 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7720 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7721 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7722 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7723 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7724 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7725 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7726 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7728 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7729 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7732 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7733 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7734 error should be diagnosed.
7736 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7737 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7738 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7739 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7740 appeared instead of "NULL".
7742 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7743 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7744 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7745 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7746 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7747 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7750 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7751 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7752 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7758 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7759 or receiver verification errors.
7761 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7764 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7765 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7766 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7767 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7769 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7770 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7771 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7772 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7773 shouldn't happen again.
7775 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7776 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7777 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7779 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7780 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7782 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7784 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7785 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7787 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7788 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7791 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7792 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7793 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7795 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7796 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7797 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7798 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7800 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7801 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7802 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7803 to define what should happen).
7805 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7806 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7807 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7809 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7811 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7813 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7814 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7816 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7817 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7818 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7819 structure in all cases.
7821 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7822 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7823 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7824 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7826 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7827 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7830 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7831 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7833 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7834 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7836 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7837 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7838 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7840 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7841 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7842 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7844 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7845 the book and for uniformity.
7847 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7849 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7850 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7851 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7852 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7853 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7854 non-existent command as the problem.
7856 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7857 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7858 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7860 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7862 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7863 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7864 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7866 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7867 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7868 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7869 timestamps using strftime().
7871 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7872 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7874 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7875 transport-time rewrites.
7877 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7878 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7879 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7880 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7882 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7883 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7885 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7886 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7887 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7888 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7891 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7892 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7893 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7894 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7895 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7896 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7897 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7899 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7900 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7901 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7902 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7903 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7905 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7906 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7907 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7908 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7909 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7910 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7911 remaining text gets split now.
7913 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7914 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7915 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7916 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7918 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7919 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7920 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7921 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7924 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7925 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7926 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7927 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7928 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7929 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7930 passed through if needed.
7932 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7933 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7934 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7935 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7936 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7937 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7939 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7940 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7941 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7942 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7943 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7945 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7946 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7947 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7948 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7949 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7951 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7952 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7955 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7956 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7957 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7958 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7959 mayhem of various kinds.
7961 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7962 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7963 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7964 the right test for positive values.
7966 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7967 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7968 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7969 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7970 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7971 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7972 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7973 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7974 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7975 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7978 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7981 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7982 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7985 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7986 the existing equality matching.
7988 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7989 dealing with inode numbers.
7991 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7992 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7993 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7995 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7996 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7997 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7998 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8001 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8002 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8003 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8004 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8005 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8006 relay addresses has also been removed.
8008 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8010 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8011 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8012 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8014 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8015 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8016 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8017 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8018 processing applies to CR:
8020 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8021 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8023 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8024 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8025 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8026 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8028 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8029 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8030 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8032 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8033 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8034 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8035 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8036 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8037 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8040 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8043 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8044 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8045 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8046 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8049 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8051 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8053 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8055 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8056 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8057 not considered personal.
8059 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8061 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8063 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8065 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8066 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8067 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8068 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8069 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8070 header lines, and spool format errors.
8072 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8073 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8074 for more flexibility.
8076 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8077 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8078 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8080 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8083 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8084 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8085 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8086 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8087 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8088 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8089 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8090 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8091 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8093 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8094 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8095 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8096 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8097 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8098 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8099 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8101 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8102 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8103 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8105 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8106 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8107 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8108 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8109 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8110 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8111 instead of killing the process with assert().
8113 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8114 than Unicode encoding.
8116 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8117 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8118 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8119 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8121 77. Added process_log_path.
8123 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8124 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8126 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8127 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8129 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8130 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8131 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8133 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8134 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8135 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8136 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8137 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8140 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8141 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8144 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8145 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8146 they will be used during message reception.
8152 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.