1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
281 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
283 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
284 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
285 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
286 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
288 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
289 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
291 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
292 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
293 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
294 mode until after various protocol state checks.
295 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
297 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
299 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
300 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
302 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
305 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
306 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
307 executed child processes (if any).
309 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
312 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
313 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
314 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
315 been reported on other platforms.
317 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
319 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
320 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualsy.
321 Not supported on Solaris 10.
327 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
328 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
329 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
331 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
333 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
334 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
337 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
338 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
339 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
341 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
343 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
345 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
346 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
347 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
349 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
350 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
351 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
353 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
354 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
356 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
357 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
360 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
361 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
362 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
363 should both provide the file and set the option.
364 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
366 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
367 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
369 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
370 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
371 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
372 Authentication-Results: header.
374 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
375 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
376 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
377 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
379 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
380 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
381 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
382 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
383 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
384 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
385 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
387 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
388 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
389 copies while it is still usable.
391 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
392 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
393 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
395 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
396 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
398 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
399 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
400 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
401 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
403 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
404 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
405 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
408 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
409 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
410 - the pipe transport command
411 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
412 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
414 - paths used by single-key lookups
415 Previously this was permitted.
417 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
418 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
419 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
420 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
422 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
423 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
424 support larger malloc requests.
426 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
427 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
428 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
429 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
431 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
432 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
433 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
434 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
437 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
438 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
439 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
440 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
441 data being length-specified.
443 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
444 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
445 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
446 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
448 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
449 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
450 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
451 not being properly tracked.
453 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
454 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
455 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
456 minute could be seen.
458 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
459 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
460 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
462 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
463 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
465 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
466 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
469 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
471 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
472 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
474 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
475 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
476 filesystem as sufficient validation.
478 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
479 argument is supplied.
481 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
482 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
483 access under Exim's current working directory.
485 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
486 Previously no event was raised.
488 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
489 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
490 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
493 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
494 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
495 the size of the signature hash.
497 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
498 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
500 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
501 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
502 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
503 dropped between messages.
505 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
506 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
507 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
508 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
510 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
511 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
512 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
513 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
514 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
515 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
516 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
517 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
518 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
520 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
521 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
522 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
524 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
525 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
532 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
533 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
535 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
536 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
539 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
542 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
544 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
546 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
547 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
549 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
550 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
551 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
552 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
553 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
554 suitably configured).
556 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
557 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
559 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
560 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
563 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
564 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
566 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
567 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
568 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
569 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
572 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
573 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
574 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
576 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
579 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
580 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
582 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
583 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
584 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
585 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
588 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
589 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
590 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
591 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
594 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
595 shared (NFS) environment.
597 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
598 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
601 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
602 on some platforms for bit 31.
604 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
605 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
606 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
607 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
608 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
609 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
610 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
611 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
613 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
615 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
616 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
618 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
619 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
622 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
623 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
626 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
627 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
628 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
631 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
632 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
633 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
635 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
636 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
637 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
638 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
639 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
641 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
644 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
645 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
646 be requested on all coneections.
648 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
649 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
651 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
653 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
654 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
655 one for these; the option was ignored.
657 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
658 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
659 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
660 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
662 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
663 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
664 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
667 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
668 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
669 error ignored was made.
671 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
673 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
674 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
675 values, to catch one form of exploit.
677 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
678 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
679 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
681 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
682 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
685 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
686 them in our smtp response.
688 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
689 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
690 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
691 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
692 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
694 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
695 link count into consideration.
697 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
698 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
700 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
701 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
702 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
705 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
707 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
709 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
711 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
712 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
713 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
714 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
716 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
718 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
719 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
722 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
723 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
724 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
726 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
727 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
728 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
730 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
731 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
732 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
733 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
734 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
735 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
736 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
737 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
739 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
740 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
741 resulted in an indefinite loop.
743 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
744 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
745 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
751 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
752 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
754 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
755 non-signal-safe functions being used.
757 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
758 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
759 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
761 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
762 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
763 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
765 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
766 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
767 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
768 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
769 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
772 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
773 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
775 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
776 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
777 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
778 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
779 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
780 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
781 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
783 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
784 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
786 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
789 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
790 Previously this would segfault.
792 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
795 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
796 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
797 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
798 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
799 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
800 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
802 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
804 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
805 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
806 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
807 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
809 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
811 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
812 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
813 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
814 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
816 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
818 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
820 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
821 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
822 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
824 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
825 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
826 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
828 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
830 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
831 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
832 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
833 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
835 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
836 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
837 promised '?' replacement.
839 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
841 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
842 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
843 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
844 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
845 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
847 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
848 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
849 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
851 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
852 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
853 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
855 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
856 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
857 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
859 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
860 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
861 hope that is portable enough.
863 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
864 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
865 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
866 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
868 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
869 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
870 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
872 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
873 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
874 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
875 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
877 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
878 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
880 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
881 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
882 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
883 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
885 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
886 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
887 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
889 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
890 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
891 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
892 the previous G, M, k.
894 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
895 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
898 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
899 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
900 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
901 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
903 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
904 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
906 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
907 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
908 off past the nul-terimation.
910 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
911 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
912 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
913 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
914 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
916 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
918 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
919 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
920 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
923 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
924 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
926 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
927 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
928 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
930 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
931 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
932 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
934 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
935 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
941 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
942 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
943 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
944 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
945 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
946 be defined in redis_servers.
948 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
949 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
951 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
952 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
953 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
954 extant use locations.
956 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
957 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
959 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
960 Previously only the last row was returned.
962 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
963 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
964 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
965 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
968 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
969 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
970 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
971 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
972 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
973 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
974 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
975 Main pool for expansions.
976 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
977 active in the testsuite.
978 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
980 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
981 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
982 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
983 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
986 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
987 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
990 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
991 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
992 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
994 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
995 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
996 ClamAV interface method is removed.
998 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
999 rows affected is given instead).
1001 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1002 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1004 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1005 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1006 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1007 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1008 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1010 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1011 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1012 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1014 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1015 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1016 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1017 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1020 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1021 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1022 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1025 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1027 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1028 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1030 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1031 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1032 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1034 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1035 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1036 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1039 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1040 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1042 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1043 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1044 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1046 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1047 for the build is renamed.
1049 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1050 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1051 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1053 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1054 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1055 result replacing the original.
1057 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1058 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1059 and the resources needed to be freed.
1061 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1063 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1066 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1067 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1068 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1069 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1071 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1072 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1074 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1075 newer versions of the scanner.
1077 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1078 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1079 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1080 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1081 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1082 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1083 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1085 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1086 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1087 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1088 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1089 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1090 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1091 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1092 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1093 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1094 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1096 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1097 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1099 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1101 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1102 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1104 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1105 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1107 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1108 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1109 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1111 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1112 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1113 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1114 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1116 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1117 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1120 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1121 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1123 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1124 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1125 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1126 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1127 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1129 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1130 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1133 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1134 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1136 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1139 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1140 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1141 "bare" representation.
1143 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1144 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1145 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1146 corrupted the output.
1152 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1153 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1154 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1155 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1157 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1158 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1160 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1161 This permits better logging.
1163 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1164 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1165 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1166 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1167 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1168 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1170 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1171 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1174 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1175 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1176 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1178 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1179 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1181 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1182 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1183 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1184 client, there is no benefit for these.
1185 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1186 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1187 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1190 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1191 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1193 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1194 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1195 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1197 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1198 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1200 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1201 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1202 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1203 signature and again for transmission.
1205 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1206 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1207 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1209 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1210 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1211 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1212 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1213 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1214 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1215 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1217 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1218 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1219 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1220 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1222 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1223 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1224 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1225 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1226 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1227 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1230 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1231 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1232 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1233 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1236 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1237 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1238 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1239 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1242 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1243 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1246 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1247 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1248 banner-time rejection.
1250 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1253 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1254 is the name of a transport.
1257 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1259 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1260 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1262 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1263 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1264 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1267 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1268 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1269 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1270 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1272 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1273 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1274 initial verify call returned a defer.
1276 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1277 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1279 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1280 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1282 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1283 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1285 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1286 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1288 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1289 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1292 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1293 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1295 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1296 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1297 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1299 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1300 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1301 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1302 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1304 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1305 and confused the parent.
1307 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1308 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1310 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1313 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1314 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1315 out-of-order delivery.
1317 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1318 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1319 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1322 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1323 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1326 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1327 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1328 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1330 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1331 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1332 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1333 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1334 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1335 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1337 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1338 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1339 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1341 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1342 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1343 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1345 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1346 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1347 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1348 though a different problem.
1354 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1355 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1357 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1359 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1360 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1362 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1363 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1365 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1366 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1367 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1368 before acknowledging the chunk.
1370 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1371 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1372 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1374 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1375 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1376 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1379 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1380 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1381 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1383 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1384 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1386 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1387 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1388 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1389 body hash calculated value.
1391 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1392 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1393 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1395 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1397 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1398 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1400 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1401 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1402 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1404 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1405 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1406 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1407 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1408 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1409 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1411 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1412 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1413 past that check, despite the cost.
1415 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1416 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1417 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1419 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1420 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1421 TLS library to consume.
1423 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1425 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1427 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1428 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1429 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1430 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1431 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1432 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1433 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1435 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1437 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1439 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1440 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1441 should be warning-free.
1443 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1445 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1446 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1448 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1449 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1450 general solution here.
1452 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1453 already-broken messages in the queue.
1455 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1457 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1463 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1464 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1466 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1467 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1468 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1470 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1471 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1472 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1473 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1474 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1475 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1476 if one fails this test.
1477 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1478 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1480 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1481 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1483 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1484 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1486 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1487 in rewrites and routers.
1489 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1490 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1492 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1493 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1495 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1497 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1500 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1501 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1502 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1503 connection after a verify cache hit.
1504 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1506 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1507 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1509 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1510 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1511 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1512 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1513 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1515 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1516 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1518 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1519 Previously they were not counted.
1521 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1522 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1523 that needed the lookup.
1525 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1526 distinguished as "(=".
1528 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1529 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1531 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1533 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1534 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1536 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1537 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1539 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1540 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1543 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1544 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1545 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1546 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1548 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1550 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1551 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1552 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1554 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1555 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1556 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1559 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1560 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1561 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1564 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1565 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1566 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1568 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1569 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1572 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1574 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1575 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1577 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1578 are not in the system include path.
1580 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1581 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1582 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1583 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1585 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1586 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1587 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1589 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1591 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1592 an incoming connection.
1594 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1597 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1598 fallback to "prime256v1".
1600 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1601 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1607 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1608 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1609 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1610 client dropping the TLS connection.
1612 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1613 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1615 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1616 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1617 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1618 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1621 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1622 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1623 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1624 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1625 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1626 check on the next write.
1628 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1629 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1630 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1631 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1632 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1634 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1635 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1637 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1638 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1639 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1641 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1642 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1643 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1644 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1646 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1647 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1649 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1650 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1652 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1653 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1654 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1657 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1659 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1661 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1663 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1664 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1666 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1667 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1669 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1671 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1672 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1674 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1676 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1677 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1679 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1681 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1682 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1683 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1684 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1685 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1686 they will retry in-clear.
1687 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1688 at installation time.
1690 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1691 with the $config_file variable.
1693 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1694 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1695 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1696 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1697 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1699 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1700 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1701 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1702 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1703 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1705 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1707 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1708 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1709 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1710 list order is no longer honoured.
1712 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1713 for DKIM processing.
1715 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1716 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1718 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1719 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1720 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1721 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1723 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1724 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1726 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1727 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1729 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1730 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1732 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1734 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1735 cached by the daemon.
1737 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1738 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1740 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1741 keys are given for lookup.
1743 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1744 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1745 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1746 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1748 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1749 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1750 server-side so match that on older versions.
1752 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1753 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1754 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1756 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1757 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1759 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1760 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1761 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1762 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1763 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1764 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1765 initial truncated version.
1767 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1769 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1771 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1772 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1774 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1776 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1778 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1779 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1782 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1783 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1786 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1787 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1789 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1790 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1793 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1794 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1795 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1797 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1798 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1799 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1800 extraction. Accept either.
1806 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1809 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1811 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1814 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1815 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1816 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1817 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1819 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1820 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1821 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1823 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1824 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1825 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1828 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1831 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1832 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1833 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1834 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1835 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1837 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1838 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1839 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1841 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1843 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1844 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1846 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1847 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1849 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1852 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1853 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1855 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1856 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1857 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1859 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1860 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1861 specify a port-range.
1863 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1864 timeout value per server.
1866 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1867 now have the list separator specified.
1869 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1872 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1875 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1877 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1878 rather than the verbs used.
1880 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1881 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1883 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1885 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1886 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1888 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1889 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1891 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1892 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1894 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1896 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1898 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1899 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1900 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1901 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1903 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1905 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1906 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1908 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1909 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1911 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1913 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1915 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1917 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1918 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1920 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1921 added for tls authenticator.
1923 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1929 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1930 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1931 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1932 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1933 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1934 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1935 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1937 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1938 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1939 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1940 function when detected.
1942 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1943 cause callback expansion.
1945 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1946 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1947 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1948 instead of bool when processing it.
1950 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1951 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1953 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1955 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1957 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1959 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1960 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1962 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1963 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1964 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1965 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1966 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1967 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1969 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1970 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1973 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1974 version 3.3.6 or later.
1976 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1977 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1978 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1979 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1980 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1981 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1984 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1985 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1987 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1988 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1989 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1992 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1993 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1994 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1996 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1997 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1999 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2000 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2003 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2005 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2006 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2008 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2009 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2012 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2014 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2017 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2018 output list separator was used.
2023 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2024 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2027 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2028 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2030 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2032 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2033 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2039 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2041 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2042 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2043 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2044 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2045 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2046 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2048 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2049 utilities have not been installed.
2051 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2052 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2054 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2055 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2057 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2058 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2059 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2060 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2062 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2064 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2065 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2067 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2070 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2072 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2073 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2074 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2076 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2077 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2078 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2079 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2080 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2081 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2083 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2085 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2086 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2088 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2091 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2093 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2095 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2096 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2098 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2099 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2101 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2103 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2105 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2106 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2108 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2109 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2110 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2112 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2113 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2114 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2117 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2119 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2120 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2123 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2124 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2127 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2128 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2130 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2131 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2133 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2135 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2136 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2137 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2139 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2140 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2142 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2143 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2146 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2147 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2148 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2150 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2152 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2153 Christian Aistleitner.
2155 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2157 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2158 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2160 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2161 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2163 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2164 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2166 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2167 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2169 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2170 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2172 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2173 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2174 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2176 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2178 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2179 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2182 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2184 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2185 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2192 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2194 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2195 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2197 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2200 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2201 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2204 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2206 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2207 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2208 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2209 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2210 using channel bindings instead).
2212 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2213 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2214 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2215 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2216 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2219 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2221 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2223 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2224 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2226 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2227 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2228 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2230 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2232 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2234 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2235 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2237 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2239 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2241 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2243 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2244 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2246 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2248 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2249 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2252 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2253 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2255 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2256 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2259 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2261 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2263 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2264 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2266 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2269 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2270 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2272 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2273 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2275 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2277 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2279 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2282 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2285 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2287 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2288 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2289 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2290 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2292 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2294 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2295 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2296 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2297 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2300 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2301 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2302 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2304 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2305 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2306 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2307 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2309 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2310 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2311 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2312 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2313 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2314 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2315 delivery, as in LMTP.
2317 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2318 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2320 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2322 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2326 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2327 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2328 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2329 username as equal to the username.
2331 This change corrects that bug.
2333 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2334 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2335 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2337 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2339 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2340 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2341 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2342 NULL dereference and crash.
2344 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2346 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2347 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2348 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2350 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2352 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2353 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2354 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2355 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2356 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2357 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2358 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2359 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2360 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2361 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2362 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2364 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2365 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2367 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2368 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2371 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2372 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2373 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2374 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2375 an empty string is now equivalent.
2377 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2378 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2379 not performing validation itself.
2381 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2382 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2384 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2387 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2389 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2390 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2391 other false fix of the same issue.
2392 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2395 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2396 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2398 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2399 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2400 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2402 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2403 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2404 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2406 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2408 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2410 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2411 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2413 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2416 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2417 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2418 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2419 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2420 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2422 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2423 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2425 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2426 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2429 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2430 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2431 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2432 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2434 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2436 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2437 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2438 from multiple comments on this bug.
2440 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2442 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2443 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2446 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2447 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2449 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2450 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2456 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2458 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2464 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2465 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2466 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2468 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2470 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2473 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2475 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2477 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2479 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2480 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2482 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2483 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2485 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2486 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2488 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2489 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2490 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2492 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2494 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2495 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2497 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2499 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2501 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2502 non-compliant senders.
2503 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2505 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2506 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2507 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2509 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2510 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2511 in spool file corruption.
2513 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2514 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2515 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2518 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2519 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2520 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2522 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2523 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2525 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2527 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2529 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2531 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2532 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2533 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2535 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2536 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2537 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2538 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2540 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2541 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2543 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2544 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2545 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2546 resolver implementation change.
2548 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2549 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2551 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2553 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2555 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2556 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2558 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2559 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2561 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2562 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2564 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2565 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2566 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2567 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2568 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2570 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2572 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2573 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2574 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2576 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2578 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2579 read-only, out of scope).
2580 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2582 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2583 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2584 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2585 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2587 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2589 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2590 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2591 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2592 real issues in debug logging.
2594 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2595 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2597 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2598 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2599 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2601 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2602 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2603 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2606 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2607 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2609 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2610 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2611 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2612 needs to override this, it can.
2614 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2615 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2616 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2618 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2619 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2620 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2621 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2623 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2629 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2630 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2632 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2634 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2637 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2638 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2640 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2641 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2642 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2644 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2645 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2646 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2647 not safe for signals.
2649 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2650 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2651 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2652 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2655 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2657 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2658 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2659 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2660 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2661 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2663 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2664 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2665 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2666 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2667 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2668 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2670 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2671 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2672 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2673 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2675 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2676 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2677 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2678 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2680 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2681 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2682 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2683 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2684 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2685 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2686 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2687 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2688 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2690 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2691 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2692 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2693 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2695 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2696 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2697 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2698 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2699 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2700 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2701 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2702 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2703 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2704 details in the main documentation.
2706 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2708 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2710 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2711 repository when doing development or release builds.
2713 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2714 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2716 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2717 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2720 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2722 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2723 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2725 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2726 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2728 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2729 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2731 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2732 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2734 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2735 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2737 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2739 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2742 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2743 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2744 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2746 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2748 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2750 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2751 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2757 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2759 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2760 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2762 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2764 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2766 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2769 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2770 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2772 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2773 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2775 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2776 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2778 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2781 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2782 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2784 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2785 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2786 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2787 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2789 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2790 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2796 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2799 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2800 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2801 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2803 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2804 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2806 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2807 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2808 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2810 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2811 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2813 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2814 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2816 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2817 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2819 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2820 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2822 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2823 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2825 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2828 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2829 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2831 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2832 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2834 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2835 SQL string expansion failure details.
2836 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2838 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2839 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2841 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2842 extern declarations in function scope.
2843 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2845 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2846 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2847 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2850 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2851 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2853 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2854 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2856 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2857 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2859 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2860 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2862 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2863 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2866 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2868 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2870 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2871 Patch by Simon Arlott
2873 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2874 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2880 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2881 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2883 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2884 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2886 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2888 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2889 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2890 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2892 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2893 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2894 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2896 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2897 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2898 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2899 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2901 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2902 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2903 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2904 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2906 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2907 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2908 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2911 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2914 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2915 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2916 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2917 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2918 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2924 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2925 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2926 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2928 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2929 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2931 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2933 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2935 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2937 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2939 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2941 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2942 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2943 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2944 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2946 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2947 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2948 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2949 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2950 more caution in buffer sizes.
2952 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2954 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2956 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2958 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2960 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2962 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2964 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2966 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2967 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2968 ignore trailing whitespace.
2970 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2972 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2975 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2976 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2978 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2979 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2980 Notification from John Horne.
2982 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2985 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2986 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2989 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2992 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2993 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2994 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2996 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2997 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2998 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3001 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3002 option (effectively making it always true).
3004 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3005 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3007 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3008 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3010 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3011 run-time user, instead of root.
3013 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3014 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3016 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3017 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3020 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3021 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3022 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3024 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3026 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3032 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3033 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3036 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3037 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3040 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3041 Patch from Alain Williams
3043 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3045 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3046 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3048 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3049 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3051 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3053 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3055 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3056 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3058 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3060 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3062 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3063 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3064 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3066 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3067 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3069 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3070 Patch by Simon Arlott
3072 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3073 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3079 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3081 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3083 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3085 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3087 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3093 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3094 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3096 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3097 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3100 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3101 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3102 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3104 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3105 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3107 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3108 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3109 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3110 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3112 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3113 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3114 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3116 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3118 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3120 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3121 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3123 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3125 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3126 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3127 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3128 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3130 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3131 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3133 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3135 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3137 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3138 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3140 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3141 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3143 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3144 that they are available at delivery time.
3146 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3148 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3149 incoming_port log selectors.
3151 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3152 setting expands to an empty string.
3154 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3155 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3157 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3158 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3160 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3161 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3163 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3164 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3166 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3167 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3169 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3170 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3172 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3174 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3175 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3177 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3178 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3180 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3182 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3183 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3185 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3187 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3189 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3192 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3193 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3195 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3196 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3198 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3199 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3201 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3202 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3204 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3205 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3207 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3208 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3210 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3211 plus update to original patch.
3213 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3215 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3216 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3218 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3220 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3222 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3224 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3226 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3227 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3229 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3230 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3232 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3233 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3235 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3236 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3238 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3240 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3242 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3244 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3250 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3251 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3252 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3254 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3255 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3256 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3257 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3258 build errors in sieve.c.
3260 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3261 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3262 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3264 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3266 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3268 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3270 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3276 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3278 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3279 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3280 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3281 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3282 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3283 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3284 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3285 for iplsearch lookups.
3287 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3288 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3289 previously such lookups could never work.
3291 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3292 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3293 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3295 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3298 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3299 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3300 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3301 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3302 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3303 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3305 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3306 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3308 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3309 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3310 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3311 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3312 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3313 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3315 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3318 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3320 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3321 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3324 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3325 by clients under certain conditions.
3327 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3328 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3330 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3332 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3333 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3335 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3337 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3339 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3341 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3342 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3344 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3346 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3347 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3349 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3351 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3353 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3354 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3355 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3356 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3358 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3359 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3360 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3362 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3363 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3365 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3367 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3369 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3371 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3372 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3373 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3379 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3380 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3383 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3384 issue a MAIL command.
3386 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3388 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3390 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3391 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3392 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3393 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3394 item. This has been fixed.
3396 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3397 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3399 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3400 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3402 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3403 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3404 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3406 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3408 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3409 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3410 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3411 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3412 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3414 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3415 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3416 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3418 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3419 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3420 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3421 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3423 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3425 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3427 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3428 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3429 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3430 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3431 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3433 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3435 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3436 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3437 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3440 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3442 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3444 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3446 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3448 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3450 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3451 no_callout_flush is set.
3453 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3454 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3455 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3458 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3460 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3461 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3462 other ACL rejections are.
3464 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3465 with slight modification.
3467 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3468 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3470 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3471 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3474 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3475 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3477 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3479 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3480 expansion side effects.
3482 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3483 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3484 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3487 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3488 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3489 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3491 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3492 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3493 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3494 were accidentally chopped off.
3496 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3497 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3498 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3499 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3500 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3501 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3502 pipelining has not been advertised.
3504 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3506 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3507 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3508 This has been fixed.
3510 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3511 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3512 reported on Solaris.
3514 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3515 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3516 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3517 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3518 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3519 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3520 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3522 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3525 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3527 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3529 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3530 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3531 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3532 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3533 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3534 criteria to be more general.
3536 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3537 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3538 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3539 host_all_ignored option.
3541 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3542 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3543 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3544 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3545 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3546 is what is supposed to happen).
3548 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3549 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3550 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3551 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3552 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3555 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3556 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3557 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3558 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3559 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3560 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3563 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3565 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3566 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3568 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3569 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3571 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3573 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3575 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3576 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3577 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3578 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3579 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3580 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3581 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3582 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3583 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3584 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3585 least in a lot of common cases.
3587 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3588 advertised in response to EHLO.
3594 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3595 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3597 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3598 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3600 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3601 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3602 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3604 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3605 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3606 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3607 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3608 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3614 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3615 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3618 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3619 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3620 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3622 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3623 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3624 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3625 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3626 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3627 rather than extend the field.
3633 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3634 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3635 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3636 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3639 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3640 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3641 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3643 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3644 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3645 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3647 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3648 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3649 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3652 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3653 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3654 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3655 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3656 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3657 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3658 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3659 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3660 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3661 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3662 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3664 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3667 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3668 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3669 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3670 ignores EPIPE as well.
3672 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3673 (quoted-printable decoding).
3675 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3676 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3678 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3680 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3682 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3684 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3685 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3687 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3690 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3691 miscellaneous code fixes
3693 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3696 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3697 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3698 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3699 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3700 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3701 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3702 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3703 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3705 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3706 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3707 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3708 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3710 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3711 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3712 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3713 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3714 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3715 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3716 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3717 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3718 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3720 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3723 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3724 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3725 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3726 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3727 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3728 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3729 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3730 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3732 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3733 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3736 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3737 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3738 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3739 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3740 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3741 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3742 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3743 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3744 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3745 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3746 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3747 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3748 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3750 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3751 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3752 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3753 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3754 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3755 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3756 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3758 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3759 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3760 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3761 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3762 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3763 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3764 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3765 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3766 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3767 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3769 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3770 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3771 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3772 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3773 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3775 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3776 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3777 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3778 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3779 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3780 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3781 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3783 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3784 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3785 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3786 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3787 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3788 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3791 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3792 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3793 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3796 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3797 if any retry times were supplied.
3799 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3800 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3801 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3803 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3805 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3807 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3808 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3809 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3810 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3811 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3812 before) are ignored.
3814 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3815 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3817 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3818 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3819 committing the later change.]
3821 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3822 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3823 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3824 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3825 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3826 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3827 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3828 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3829 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3831 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3832 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3833 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3834 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3835 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3836 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3837 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3838 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3839 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3841 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3842 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3843 hammering the server.
3845 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3846 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3848 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3850 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3851 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3852 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3854 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3855 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3856 one case where this was not true.
3858 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3859 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3860 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3861 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3864 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3865 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3866 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3867 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3868 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3869 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3870 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3871 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3872 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3875 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3876 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3877 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3878 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3880 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3881 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3883 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3884 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3885 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3887 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3889 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3891 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3893 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3894 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3895 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3896 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3898 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3899 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3901 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3902 be meaningful with "accept".
3904 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3905 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3907 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3908 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3909 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3911 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3912 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3913 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3914 there is data to show.
3915 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3917 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3918 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3919 as well as the number of messages.
3921 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3922 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3923 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3925 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3926 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3927 have a flag are now skipped.
3929 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3930 Added the -emptyok flag.
3932 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3933 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3935 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3936 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3937 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3939 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3942 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3943 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3945 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3947 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3948 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3950 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3952 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3953 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3954 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3955 contravention of the specifications.
3957 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3958 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3959 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3961 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3962 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3963 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3965 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3967 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3968 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3969 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3970 some point in the past.
3972 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3973 transport during callout processing was broken.
3975 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3976 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3978 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3979 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3981 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3982 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3984 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3990 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3991 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3993 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3994 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3995 there is data to show.
3996 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3998 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3999 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4001 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4002 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4004 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4005 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4007 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4008 submissions from trusted users.
4010 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4011 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4013 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4014 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4015 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4016 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4017 there is now a framework to start from.
4019 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4020 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4021 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4023 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4025 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4027 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4029 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4030 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4031 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4033 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4036 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4037 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4038 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4040 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4041 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4042 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4045 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4046 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4047 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4048 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4049 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4051 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4052 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4054 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4056 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4057 operations in malware.c.
4059 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4062 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4063 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4064 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4067 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4068 statements to "add_header".
4070 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4071 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4073 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4074 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4077 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4081 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4082 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4083 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4086 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4087 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4089 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4090 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4092 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4093 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4094 any possible encoding problems.
4096 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4097 but not after initializing Perl.
4099 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4100 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4101 apparently, which is not desirable.
4103 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4106 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4109 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4111 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4112 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4113 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4114 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4116 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4117 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4118 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4120 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4121 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4122 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4125 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4126 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4127 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4128 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4129 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4135 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4136 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4138 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4141 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4142 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4143 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4144 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4145 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4146 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4147 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4148 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4151 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4153 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4154 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4155 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4157 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4158 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4159 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4162 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4163 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4165 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4166 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4167 option (which defaults to 0600).
4169 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4171 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4172 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4173 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4174 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4175 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4176 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4177 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4179 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4185 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4186 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4187 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4188 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4189 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4190 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4193 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4194 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4196 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4198 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4199 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4200 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4201 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4202 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4205 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4206 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4208 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4209 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4210 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4211 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4212 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4214 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4215 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4216 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4217 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4219 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4220 be the same on different OS.
4222 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4225 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4226 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4228 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4231 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4232 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4233 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4234 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4235 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4236 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4239 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4240 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4241 when Exim was called.
4243 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4244 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4246 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4247 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4248 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4249 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4251 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4252 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4253 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4254 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4257 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4258 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4259 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4261 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4262 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4263 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4265 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4268 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4269 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4270 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4271 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4272 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4273 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4274 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4275 values from the SRV records were lost.
4277 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4278 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4279 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4281 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4282 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4283 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4285 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4286 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4287 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4288 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4289 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4290 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4291 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4292 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4293 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4294 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4296 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4297 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4298 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4300 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4301 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4303 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4304 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4305 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4306 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4309 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4310 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4311 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4313 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4314 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4315 PH/23 above applies.
4317 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4318 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4319 (for which there is an explicit test).
4321 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4323 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4324 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4325 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4326 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4327 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4329 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4330 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4331 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4332 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4334 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4335 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4336 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4338 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4340 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4342 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4343 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4344 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4346 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4347 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4348 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4349 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4350 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4352 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4353 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4354 the message gets confusing).
4356 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4357 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4358 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4359 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4361 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4362 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4363 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4364 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4367 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4368 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4369 the different processes.
4371 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4373 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4375 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4376 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4378 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4379 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4381 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4382 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4383 messages matching specified criteria.
4385 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4387 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4388 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4390 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4391 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4392 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4393 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4394 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4395 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4396 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4397 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4398 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4399 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4401 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4402 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4403 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4405 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4407 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4408 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4409 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4410 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4411 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4412 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4413 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4416 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4417 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4419 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4421 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4423 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4425 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4426 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4427 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4428 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4429 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4430 size of the count of files.
4432 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4434 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4437 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4438 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4439 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4440 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4442 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4443 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4444 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4446 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4447 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4448 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4449 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4450 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4452 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4453 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4455 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4456 will now be deprecated.
4458 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4460 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4461 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4462 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4464 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4465 with very large, slow to parse queues
4467 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4469 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4471 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4472 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4473 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4476 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4477 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4478 Sieve code now uses this.
4480 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4481 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4483 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4484 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4486 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4488 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4489 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4490 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4491 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4492 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4494 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4495 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4496 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4497 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4499 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4501 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4503 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4504 is preferred over IPv4.
4506 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4507 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4508 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4509 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4510 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4511 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4512 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4514 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4515 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4516 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4518 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4520 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4521 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4522 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4523 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4524 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4525 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4526 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4527 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4528 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4529 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4530 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4532 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4533 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4534 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4540 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4542 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4543 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4545 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4546 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4547 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4549 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4551 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4554 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4557 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4558 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4559 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4562 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4563 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4565 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4566 inside the third argument.
4568 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4569 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4572 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4573 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4575 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4576 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4578 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4580 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4581 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4584 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4586 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4587 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4588 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4589 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4590 identical. For example:
4592 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4594 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4595 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4596 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4598 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4599 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4600 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4601 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4603 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4604 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4605 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4608 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4610 o fixes some comments
4611 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4612 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4613 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4614 and documents the missing references header update
4618 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4619 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4622 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4623 Electronic Mail") by including:
4625 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4627 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4628 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4629 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4630 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4631 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4633 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4635 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4637 The auto-replied keyword:
4639 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4640 message by an automatic process,
4642 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4644 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4645 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4647 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4648 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4651 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4652 to the default Received: header definition.
4654 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4656 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4657 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4658 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4660 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4661 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4662 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4664 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4665 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4666 and treats the condition as false.
4668 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4670 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4671 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4672 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4673 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4674 not changing the active code.
4676 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4677 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4679 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4680 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4682 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4685 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4686 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4687 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4688 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4689 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4690 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4691 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4692 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4693 the text comparison.
4695 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4696 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4697 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4698 The same fix has been applied.
4704 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4705 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4708 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4709 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4711 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4713 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4714 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4715 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4716 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4717 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4719 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4720 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4721 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4722 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4725 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4733 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4734 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4736 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4738 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4740 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4741 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4742 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4744 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4745 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4746 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4748 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4749 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4752 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4753 ${stat: expansion item.
4755 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4756 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4758 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4759 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4762 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4764 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4767 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4768 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4770 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4772 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4773 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4774 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4775 the end of the subprocess.
4777 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4778 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4779 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4780 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4781 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4783 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4785 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4787 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4788 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4790 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4792 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4794 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4795 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4798 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4800 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4801 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4802 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4804 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4805 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4807 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4808 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4810 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4811 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4813 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4814 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4816 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4817 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4818 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4819 contributed by a Radius user.
4821 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4822 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4824 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4825 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4827 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4830 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4831 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4834 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4835 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4836 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4837 header lines when this was not necessary.
4839 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4841 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4842 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4843 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4846 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4849 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4850 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4851 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4852 return code was incorrect.
4854 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4856 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4858 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4860 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4862 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4863 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4864 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4865 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4866 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4869 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4871 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4872 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4873 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4874 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4875 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4876 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4877 which is clearly wrong.
4879 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4881 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4882 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4883 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4886 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4887 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4889 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4891 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4892 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4894 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4895 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4897 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4898 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4900 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4901 recipients, not senders.
4903 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4904 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4906 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4908 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4910 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4911 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4912 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4913 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4915 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4917 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4918 clock is set back in time.
4920 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4921 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4923 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4924 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4926 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4927 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4930 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4931 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4934 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4937 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4939 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4940 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4941 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4943 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4944 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4945 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4946 helo verification defer as a failure.
4948 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4949 actual error message.
4955 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4957 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4958 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4959 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4960 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4962 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4964 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4965 can still be requested.
4967 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4968 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4969 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4970 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4972 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4973 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4974 circumstances, but probably never did.
4976 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4977 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4978 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4981 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4983 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4984 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4986 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4988 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4990 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4991 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4992 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4993 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4994 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4995 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4997 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4998 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4999 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5000 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5001 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5002 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5004 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5005 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5007 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5008 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5010 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5011 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5013 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5015 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5017 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5019 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5021 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5023 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5025 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5027 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5028 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5029 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5031 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5032 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5033 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5034 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5036 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5037 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5038 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5040 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5041 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5042 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5043 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5045 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5046 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5049 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5050 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5051 should work with maildirs and everything.
5053 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5054 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5056 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5059 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5060 function for BDB 4.3.
5062 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5064 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5065 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5068 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5069 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5070 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5071 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5072 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5073 formatting function string_vformat().
5075 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5076 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5077 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5078 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5079 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5080 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5081 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5082 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5084 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5085 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5088 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5089 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5091 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5092 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5093 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5094 test. It is now used for both.
5096 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5097 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5098 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5099 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5100 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5101 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5103 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5104 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5105 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5108 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5109 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5110 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5112 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5113 experimental DomainKeys support:
5115 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5116 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5117 the control was given.
5119 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5121 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5123 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5125 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5126 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5127 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5130 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5131 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5132 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5133 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5134 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5135 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5138 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5139 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5140 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5141 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5142 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5143 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5145 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5146 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5147 do -d+all out of habit.
5149 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5150 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5153 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5154 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5155 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5156 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5157 record types that Exim uses.
5159 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5160 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5161 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5162 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5163 non-existent file that was broken.
5165 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5166 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5168 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5169 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5170 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5172 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5174 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5175 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5176 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5177 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5178 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5181 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5182 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5183 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5184 at a slight CPU cost.
5186 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5187 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5189 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5192 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5194 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5195 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5201 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5202 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5204 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5206 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5208 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5209 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5211 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5212 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5213 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5214 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5215 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5216 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5219 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5220 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5221 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5222 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5225 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5226 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5227 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5228 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5229 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5230 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5231 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5234 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5235 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5237 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5238 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5239 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5240 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5241 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5242 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5244 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5245 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5246 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5247 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5249 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5252 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5253 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5255 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5256 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5257 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5258 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5261 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5263 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5264 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5266 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5267 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5268 to what was transported.)
5270 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5272 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5273 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5274 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5275 spamd_address settings.
5277 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5278 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5279 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5280 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5281 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5283 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5285 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5286 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5287 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5288 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5289 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5291 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5292 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5294 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5295 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5296 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5297 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5298 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5299 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5300 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5303 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5304 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5305 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5306 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5307 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5308 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5309 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5312 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5314 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5315 driver and ACL definitions.
5317 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5318 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5320 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5321 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5322 understands it better than I do:
5324 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5325 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5327 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5328 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5329 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5330 => three warnings about OTP not working
5331 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5333 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5334 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5335 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5336 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5338 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5339 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5341 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5342 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5343 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5345 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5346 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5349 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5350 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5353 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5354 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5355 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5357 warn !verify = sender
5358 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5360 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5361 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5363 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5365 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5366 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5368 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5369 nomenclature these days.)
5371 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5372 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5374 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5375 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5376 . First host does not offer TLS;
5377 . First host accepts first address;
5378 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5379 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5380 . Second host accepts second address.
5381 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5382 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5385 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5386 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5387 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5388 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5389 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5391 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5392 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5394 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5395 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5397 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5398 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5399 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5401 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5402 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5405 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5407 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5408 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5409 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5410 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5411 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5412 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5413 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5415 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5416 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5417 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5418 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5419 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5421 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5422 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5425 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5426 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5427 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5428 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5429 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5430 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5432 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5434 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5435 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5436 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5437 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5438 printable escape sequences.
5440 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5441 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5444 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5445 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5448 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5449 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5450 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5451 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5452 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5454 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5455 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5456 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5458 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5460 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5461 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5464 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5465 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5466 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5467 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5468 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5469 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5470 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5471 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5472 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5475 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5476 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5477 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5478 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5482 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5483 ----------------------------------------
5485 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5486 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5487 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5488 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5489 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5490 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5493 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5494 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5495 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5496 historical information.
5502 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5504 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5505 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5507 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5508 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5511 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5512 filter fails to execute.
5514 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5515 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5516 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5517 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5518 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5520 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5522 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5523 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5524 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5525 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5527 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5528 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5529 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5530 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5531 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5533 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5535 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5537 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5538 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5539 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5540 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5542 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5543 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5544 sender verification.
5546 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5547 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5549 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5551 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5554 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5555 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5557 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5558 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5560 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5561 information about exactly what failed.
5563 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5565 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5566 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5567 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5569 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5570 It is now set to "smtps".
5572 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5573 ignore_target_hosts.
5575 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5576 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5577 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5578 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5581 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5582 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5583 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5585 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5586 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5587 wake it up if nothing else does.
5589 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5590 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5591 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5594 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5595 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5597 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5599 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5600 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5601 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5602 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5603 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5604 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5605 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5606 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5608 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5609 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5610 than one IP address.
5612 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5613 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5614 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5615 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5617 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5618 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5619 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5620 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5621 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5624 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5625 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5626 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5627 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5629 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5630 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5633 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5634 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5635 $sender_host_address.
5637 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5638 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5639 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5640 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5641 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5644 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5646 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5647 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5649 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5650 just the host names, not the priorities.
5652 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5653 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5654 controlled by a keyword.
5656 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5657 multiple records are returned.
5659 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5660 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5663 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5665 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5666 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5668 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5669 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5670 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5672 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5674 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5676 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5678 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5679 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5680 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5681 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5682 because the tests only now provoked it.
5684 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5685 (this can affect the format of dates).
5687 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5688 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5689 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5690 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5692 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5694 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5695 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5696 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5697 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5699 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5700 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5701 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5703 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5706 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5707 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5708 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5709 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5710 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5711 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5714 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5715 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5716 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5719 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5720 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5721 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5723 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5724 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5725 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5726 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5727 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5728 so I produce this patch..."
5730 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5731 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5734 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5735 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5736 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5737 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5740 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5742 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5743 long debug lines gets shown.
5745 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5746 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5748 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5750 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5751 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5752 of $primary_hostname.
5754 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5755 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5756 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5757 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5758 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5759 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5760 by change 4.50/55 above.
5762 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5763 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5764 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5765 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5766 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5767 running as the user.
5770 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5771 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5772 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5775 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5776 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5778 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5779 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5780 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5781 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5782 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5784 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5785 This has been fixed.
5787 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5788 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5789 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5790 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5793 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5795 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5796 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5797 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5798 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5800 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5801 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5803 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5804 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5805 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5807 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5808 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5809 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5812 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5813 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5814 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5816 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5817 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5818 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5819 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5821 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5822 during host lookups.
5824 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5825 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5827 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5829 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5830 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5831 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5832 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5833 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5836 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5837 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5839 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5840 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5841 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5843 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5845 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5846 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5847 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5848 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5849 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5850 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5853 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5854 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5855 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5856 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5857 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5859 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5862 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5864 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5865 "vacation" handling.
5867 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5868 OS variants using glibc.
5870 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5873 ----------------------------------------------------
5874 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5875 ----------------------------------------------------
5881 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5882 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5885 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5886 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5889 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5890 filter fails to execute.
5892 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5893 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5894 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5895 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5896 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5898 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5899 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5900 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5901 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5903 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5904 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5905 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5906 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5907 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5909 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5911 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5912 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5913 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5914 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5916 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5917 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5918 sender verification.
5920 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5921 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5923 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5924 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5926 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5927 ignore_target_hosts.
5929 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5930 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5931 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5932 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5935 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5936 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5937 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5939 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5940 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5941 wake it up if nothing else does.
5943 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5944 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5945 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5948 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5949 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5951 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5953 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5954 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5957 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5958 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5961 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5962 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5963 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5964 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5965 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5968 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5969 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5972 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5973 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5974 $sender_host_address.
5976 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5978 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5979 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5980 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5982 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5985 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5986 (this can affect the format of dates).
5988 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5989 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5990 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5991 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5993 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5994 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5995 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5997 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5998 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5999 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6000 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6002 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6003 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6004 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6006 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6009 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6010 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6011 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6012 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6013 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6014 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6017 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6018 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6019 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6020 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6023 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6024 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6025 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6026 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6027 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6028 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6029 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6031 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6032 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6033 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6034 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6035 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6036 running as the user.
6039 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6040 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6041 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6044 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6045 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6046 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6047 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6048 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6050 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6051 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6052 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6053 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6056 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6057 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6058 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6059 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6060 because the tests only now provoked it.
6066 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6067 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6068 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6069 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6070 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6071 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6072 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6074 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6075 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6078 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6080 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6082 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6083 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6086 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6087 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6088 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6089 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6090 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6092 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6093 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6095 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6097 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6099 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6102 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6103 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6105 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6106 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6107 affecting debugging statements).
6109 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6111 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6112 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6113 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6114 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6115 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6116 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6117 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6118 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6119 after the received time, and all would be well.
6121 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6122 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6123 condition in an expansion string.
6125 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6127 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6128 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6129 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6130 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6131 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6132 job under whatever limits there are.
6134 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6136 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6139 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6140 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6141 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6142 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6145 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6146 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6147 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6148 binary data in such strings.
6150 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6152 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6153 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6154 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6155 failure, which is pointless.
6157 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6159 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6161 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6162 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6163 Sender: header lines.
6165 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6166 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6167 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6169 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6170 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6171 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6172 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6173 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6176 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6177 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6178 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6179 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6180 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6182 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6183 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6184 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6187 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6188 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6190 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6191 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6193 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6195 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6197 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6199 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6202 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6204 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6206 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6207 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6208 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6209 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6211 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6212 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6218 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6219 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6220 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6222 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6223 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6224 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6225 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6226 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6227 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6229 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6230 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6231 verification failure".
6233 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6234 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6235 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6236 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6238 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6239 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6240 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6241 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6242 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6243 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6244 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6245 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6246 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6247 treated as a timeout.
6249 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6250 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6251 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6252 not set for Exim filters).
6254 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6255 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6256 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6258 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6260 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6261 try to make them clearer.
6263 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6264 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6266 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6268 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6270 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6271 only the Cygwin environment.
6273 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6274 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6275 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6276 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6277 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6279 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6280 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6281 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6282 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6283 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6284 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6285 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6287 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6288 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6290 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6292 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6293 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6294 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6296 To: susanne@some.where
6298 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6299 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6300 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6301 of addresses in From: header lines).
6303 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6304 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6305 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6307 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6308 treated as non-personal.
6310 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6311 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6313 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6315 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6317 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6318 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6319 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6321 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6322 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6324 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6325 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6326 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6327 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6328 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6329 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6331 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6332 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6333 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6334 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6335 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6336 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6337 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6338 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6340 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6342 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6343 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6345 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6346 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6347 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6349 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6350 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6352 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6353 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6354 rather than long int.
6356 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6358 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6364 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6365 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6366 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6367 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6368 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6369 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6375 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6376 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6378 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6379 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6380 socklen_t is defined.
6382 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6385 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6388 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6389 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6390 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6391 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6392 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6394 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6395 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6396 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6397 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6399 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6400 of flapping under certain conditions.
6402 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6403 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6404 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6406 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6408 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6410 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6411 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6412 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6413 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6415 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6416 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6417 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6418 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6419 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6420 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6421 preserved with the message after it was received.
6423 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6424 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6425 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6426 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6427 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6428 test suite worked just fine.
6430 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6431 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6432 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6434 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6435 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6438 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6439 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6440 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6441 does not fully solve it.
6443 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6444 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6445 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6446 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6447 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6449 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6450 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6451 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6453 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6454 string, for example:
6456 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6458 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6459 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6460 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6461 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6462 the routers could not see them.
6464 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6465 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6467 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6468 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6471 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6472 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6473 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6474 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6475 that needed quoting.
6477 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6478 was not being matched caselessly.
6480 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6483 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6484 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6485 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6486 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6487 when use_sender is false.
6489 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6491 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6493 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6495 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6496 the configuration file.
6498 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6499 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6501 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6503 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6504 bytes in the message body.
6506 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6507 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6510 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6512 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6514 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6515 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6516 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6517 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6524 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6525 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6527 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6528 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6529 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6530 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6531 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6533 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6534 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6536 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6537 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6538 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6540 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6541 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6542 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6544 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6547 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6548 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6549 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6550 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6551 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6552 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6553 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6559 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6560 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6561 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6562 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6563 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6564 default (and expected) setting.
6566 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6567 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6568 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6569 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6571 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6572 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6574 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6577 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6578 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6579 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6580 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6581 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6582 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6584 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6585 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6586 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6588 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6589 part (NOT match_host).
6591 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6593 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6594 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6595 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6596 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6597 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6598 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6599 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6600 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6601 the same named file.
6603 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6604 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6607 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6608 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6609 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6610 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6613 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6614 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6615 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6617 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6619 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6621 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6623 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6624 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6626 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6627 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6628 before starting the TLS session.
6630 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6632 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6633 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6635 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6636 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6637 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6638 colon in the middle).
6644 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6645 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6646 multiple configurations are in use.
6648 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6649 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6650 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6651 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6652 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6653 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6655 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6656 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6658 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6659 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6660 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6662 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6663 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6666 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6667 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6669 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6671 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6672 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6674 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6682 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6683 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6684 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6685 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6686 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6688 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6691 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6692 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6693 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6694 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6695 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6696 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6698 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6699 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6700 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6701 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6702 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6703 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6704 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6707 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6708 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6709 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6710 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6711 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6713 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6715 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6716 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6717 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6719 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6721 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6722 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6723 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6726 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6727 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6729 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6730 Three changes have been made:
6732 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6733 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6734 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6735 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6736 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6738 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6741 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6742 the modified behaviour.
6748 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6751 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6752 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6754 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6755 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6756 try to track down a specific problem.
6758 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6759 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6760 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6762 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6765 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6766 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6767 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6768 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6769 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6770 some earlier ones do not.
6772 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6774 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6775 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6776 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6777 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6778 address literals are enabled, of course).
6780 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6782 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6783 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6784 by a command such as
6788 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6790 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6792 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6793 remained set. It is now erased.
6795 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6796 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6798 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6799 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6800 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6801 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6802 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6803 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6804 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6805 appropriate error code.
6807 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6808 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6809 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6810 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6811 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6812 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6814 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6815 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6816 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6818 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6819 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6820 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6821 terminate the header.
6823 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6824 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6825 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6827 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6828 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6829 (4.30/29). In particular:
6831 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6834 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6835 to write a maildirsize file.
6837 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6838 the transport, the new value overrides.
6840 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6843 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6844 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6845 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6848 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6849 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6850 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6853 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6854 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6855 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6857 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6858 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6861 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6862 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6863 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6865 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6867 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6869 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6871 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6872 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6875 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6876 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6877 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6878 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6879 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6880 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6881 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6884 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6885 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6886 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6887 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6888 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6891 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6892 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6893 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6894 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6895 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6896 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6897 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6898 cached value only when the same options are set.
6900 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6902 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6903 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6904 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6905 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6906 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6908 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6909 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6910 it is clearly obsolete.
6912 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6915 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6916 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6917 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6920 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6921 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6922 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6923 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6924 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6926 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6927 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6928 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6929 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6931 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6933 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6935 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6936 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6939 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6940 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6941 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6942 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6943 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6944 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6947 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6948 with the -f command-line option.
6950 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6951 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6952 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6953 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6954 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6955 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6957 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6958 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6961 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6962 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6963 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6964 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6965 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6966 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6967 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6968 buffer is too small.
6970 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6971 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6973 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6974 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6975 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6976 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6977 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6978 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6979 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6980 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6981 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6983 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6984 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6985 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6987 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6988 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6991 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6992 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6993 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6994 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6995 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6997 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6998 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6999 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7000 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7003 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7005 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7007 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7008 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7010 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7011 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7012 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7014 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7015 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7016 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7017 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7018 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7020 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7021 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7022 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7023 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7024 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7025 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7026 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7028 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7029 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7030 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7031 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7032 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7033 the test of how many are available.
7035 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7036 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7037 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7038 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7039 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7040 new message is started.
7042 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7043 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7045 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7046 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7048 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7049 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7050 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7053 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7054 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7055 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7056 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7057 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7058 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7059 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7061 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7062 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7063 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7064 interpreted as octal.
7066 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7069 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7070 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7071 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7072 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7073 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7074 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7076 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7077 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7078 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7079 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7081 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7082 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7083 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7084 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7086 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7087 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7090 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7091 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7093 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7095 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7096 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7097 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7098 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7100 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7101 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7102 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7103 supplied", which is not helpful.
7105 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7106 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7107 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7109 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7110 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7111 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7112 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7113 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7114 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7115 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7116 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7118 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7119 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7120 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7121 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7122 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7124 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7125 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7126 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7127 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7128 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7129 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7131 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7132 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7133 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7135 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7137 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7138 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7139 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7142 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7144 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7145 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7146 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7147 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7148 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7149 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7150 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7151 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7153 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7154 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7155 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7156 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7157 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7159 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7162 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7163 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7164 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7165 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7166 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7167 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7168 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7169 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7170 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7176 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7177 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7178 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7180 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7183 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7184 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7185 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7187 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7188 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7189 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7190 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7191 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7192 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7194 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7195 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7196 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7197 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7198 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7199 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7200 the Exim test suite.
7202 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7203 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7204 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7205 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7207 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7208 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7209 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7210 specify it in this variable.
7212 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7213 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7214 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7215 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7217 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7218 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7219 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7220 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7222 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7223 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7224 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7225 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7226 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7228 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7230 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7233 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7234 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7235 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7236 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7237 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7239 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7240 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7242 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7243 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7244 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7245 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7246 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7248 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7249 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7251 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7252 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7253 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7255 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7256 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7258 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7259 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7261 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7262 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7263 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7265 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7266 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7268 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7269 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7270 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7271 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7273 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7275 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7276 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7277 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7278 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7280 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7282 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7283 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7285 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7287 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7288 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7289 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7290 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7291 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7292 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7294 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7296 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7297 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7300 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7302 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7303 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7305 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7306 550 Sender verify failed
7308 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7309 the final line of the response.
7311 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7312 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7313 all other user lookups.
7315 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7318 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7319 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7320 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7321 result into an int without checking.
7323 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7324 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7325 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7327 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7328 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7329 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7330 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7332 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7335 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7336 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7338 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7339 to the empty sender.
7341 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7342 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7343 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7344 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7345 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7346 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7347 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7350 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7351 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7352 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7353 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7356 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7357 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7359 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7362 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7363 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7365 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7367 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7368 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7371 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7372 as soon as it is encountered.
7374 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7376 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7379 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7380 recognizes a tab character.
7382 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7383 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7384 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7385 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7387 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7389 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7392 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7394 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7396 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7397 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7400 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7401 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7402 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7403 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7404 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7406 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7407 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7409 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7410 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7411 list (.included file names were always shown).
7413 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7414 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7415 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7418 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7419 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7421 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7423 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7425 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7427 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7428 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7429 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7430 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7431 failures to open the logs.
7433 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7434 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7435 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7436 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7437 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7438 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7439 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7445 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7446 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7447 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7450 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7451 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7452 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7454 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7455 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7456 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7458 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7459 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7460 causing some misleading effects.
7462 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7463 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7464 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7466 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7467 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7468 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7469 queue-runner function directly.
7475 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7478 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7479 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7480 was always written to the default place.
7482 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7483 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7484 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7486 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7488 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7490 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7491 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7492 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7494 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7495 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7498 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7499 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7500 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7502 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7503 command line option is disabled.
7505 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7506 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7508 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7510 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7512 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7513 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7515 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7517 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7518 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7519 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7520 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7521 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7522 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7524 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7525 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7528 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7529 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7531 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7532 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7534 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7535 received was valid base64.
7537 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7538 name of the variable that was being set.
7540 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7542 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7543 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7544 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7545 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7546 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7547 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7549 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7551 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7552 nor realm was specified.
7554 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7555 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7556 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7557 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7559 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7560 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7561 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7563 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7564 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7565 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7567 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7568 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7569 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7570 some systems use these upper case variants.
7572 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7573 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7574 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7575 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7577 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7579 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7580 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7582 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7583 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7586 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7588 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7589 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7590 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7591 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7593 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7596 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7597 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7598 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7600 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7601 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7603 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7604 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7605 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7606 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7608 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7609 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7610 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7612 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7614 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7615 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7616 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7617 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7620 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7621 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7622 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7624 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7626 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7627 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7629 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7630 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7632 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7633 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7634 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7635 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7636 when emails are that large.
7643 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7644 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7646 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7647 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7648 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7650 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7651 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7652 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7654 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7655 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7656 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7657 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7658 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7660 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7661 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7662 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7663 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7664 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7667 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7668 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7669 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7670 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7671 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7672 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7673 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7674 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7675 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7676 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7677 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7678 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7679 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7680 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7682 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7683 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7686 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7687 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7688 error should be diagnosed.
7690 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7691 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7692 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7693 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7694 appeared instead of "NULL".
7696 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7697 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7698 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7699 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7700 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7701 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7704 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7705 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7706 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7712 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7713 or receiver verification errors.
7715 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7718 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7719 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7720 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7721 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7723 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7724 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7725 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7726 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7727 shouldn't happen again.
7729 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7730 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7731 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7733 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7734 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7736 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7738 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7739 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7741 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7742 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7745 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7746 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7747 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7749 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7750 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7751 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7752 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7754 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7755 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7756 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7757 to define what should happen).
7759 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7760 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7761 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7763 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7765 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7767 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7768 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7770 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7771 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7772 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7773 structure in all cases.
7775 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7776 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7777 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7778 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7780 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7781 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7784 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7785 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7787 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7788 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7790 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7791 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7792 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7794 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7795 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7796 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7798 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7799 the book and for uniformity.
7801 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7803 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7804 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7805 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7806 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7807 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7808 non-existent command as the problem.
7810 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7811 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7812 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7814 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7816 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7817 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7818 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7820 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7821 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7822 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7823 timestamps using strftime().
7825 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7826 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7828 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7829 transport-time rewrites.
7831 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7832 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7833 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7834 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7836 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7837 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7839 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7840 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7841 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7842 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7845 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7846 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7847 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7848 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7849 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7850 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7851 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7853 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7854 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7855 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7856 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7857 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7859 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7860 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7861 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7862 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7863 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7864 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7865 remaining text gets split now.
7867 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7868 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7869 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7870 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7872 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7873 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7874 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7875 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7878 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7879 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7880 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7881 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7882 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7883 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7884 passed through if needed.
7886 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7887 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7888 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7889 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7890 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7891 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7893 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7894 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7895 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7896 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7897 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7899 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7900 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7901 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7902 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7903 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7905 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7906 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7909 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7910 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7911 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7912 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7913 mayhem of various kinds.
7915 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7916 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7917 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7918 the right test for positive values.
7920 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7921 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7922 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7923 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7924 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7925 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7926 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7927 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7928 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7929 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7932 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7935 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7936 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7939 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7940 the existing equality matching.
7942 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7943 dealing with inode numbers.
7945 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7946 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7947 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7949 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7950 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7951 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7952 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7955 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7956 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7957 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7958 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7959 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7960 relay addresses has also been removed.
7962 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7964 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7965 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7966 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7968 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7969 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7970 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7971 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7972 processing applies to CR:
7974 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7975 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7977 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7978 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7979 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7980 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7982 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7983 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7984 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7986 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7987 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7988 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7989 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7990 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7991 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7994 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7997 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7998 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7999 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8000 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8003 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8005 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8007 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8009 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8010 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8011 not considered personal.
8013 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8015 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8017 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8019 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8020 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8021 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8022 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8023 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8024 header lines, and spool format errors.
8026 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8027 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8028 for more flexibility.
8030 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8031 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8032 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8034 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8037 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8038 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8039 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8040 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8041 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8042 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8043 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8044 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8045 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8047 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8048 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8049 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8050 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8051 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8052 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8053 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8055 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8056 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8057 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8059 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8060 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8061 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8062 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8063 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8064 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8065 instead of killing the process with assert().
8067 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8068 than Unicode encoding.
8070 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8071 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8072 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8073 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8075 77. Added process_log_path.
8077 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8078 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8080 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8081 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8083 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8084 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8085 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8087 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8088 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8089 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8090 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8091 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8094 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8095 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8098 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8099 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8100 they will be used during message reception.
8106 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.