1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
9 SMTP connection" log lines.
11 JH/02 Option default value updates:
12 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
13 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
15 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
17 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
18 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
19 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
21 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
22 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
23 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
26 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
27 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
29 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
30 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
31 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
33 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
34 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
35 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
36 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
37 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
39 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
40 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
43 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
44 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
46 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
47 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
48 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
50 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
51 API changes in libopendmarc.
53 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
54 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
55 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
57 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
58 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
60 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
61 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
62 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
65 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
66 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
69 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
70 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
71 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
72 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
73 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
74 is strictly an incompatible change.
75 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
76 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
78 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
79 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
80 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
81 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
84 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
85 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
86 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
87 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
89 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
90 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
91 iteslf returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
92 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
93 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
94 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
97 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
98 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
101 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
102 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
103 to not checking that list for these lookups.
105 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
108 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
109 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
110 was done, killing the process.
112 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
113 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
114 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
117 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
118 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
119 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
120 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
122 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
123 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
125 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
128 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
129 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
130 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
131 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
132 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
133 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
134 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
140 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
141 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
142 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
145 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
146 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
148 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
149 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
150 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
151 not be modified by local-scan code.
153 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
154 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
156 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
157 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
160 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
161 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
163 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
164 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
167 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
168 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
169 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
171 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
172 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
173 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
175 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
176 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
177 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
178 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
179 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
180 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
181 Assorted crashes happen.
183 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
184 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
185 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
188 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
189 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
190 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
191 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
193 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
194 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
195 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
198 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
200 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
201 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
204 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
205 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
206 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
208 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
209 result of expansion operators and items.
211 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
212 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
213 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
214 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
216 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
218 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
219 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
220 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
221 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
224 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
225 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
227 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
228 Previously only the domain part was returned.
230 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
231 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
232 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
233 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
235 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
236 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
237 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
238 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
240 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
241 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
242 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
243 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
244 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
247 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
248 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
249 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
251 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
252 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
253 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
254 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
256 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
257 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
258 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
259 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
261 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
262 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
263 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
264 Previously only the server IP was used.
266 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
267 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
268 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
269 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
271 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
272 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
273 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
275 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
276 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
277 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
280 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
281 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
283 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
284 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
290 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
291 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
292 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
294 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
295 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
296 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
297 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
299 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
300 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
301 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
302 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
303 so could be handling tainted values.
305 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
306 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
307 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
309 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
310 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
311 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
314 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
315 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
316 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
317 to align better with RFC 6125.
319 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
320 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
321 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
322 by adding a release action in that path.
324 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
325 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
326 dynamically-created buffers.
328 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
329 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
330 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
331 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
333 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
334 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
335 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
336 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
338 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
339 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
340 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
342 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
343 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
344 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
345 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
347 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
348 excluded, not matching the documentation.
350 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
351 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
353 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
354 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
355 this was a coding error.
357 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
358 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
359 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
360 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
361 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
362 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
363 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
365 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
366 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
367 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
368 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
370 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
371 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
372 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
373 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
374 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
376 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
377 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
380 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
381 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
382 domain-parking registrar.
384 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
385 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
386 after removing the newline.
388 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
389 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
390 option set, which was previously used.
392 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
395 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
396 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
397 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
398 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
400 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
401 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
402 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
403 exim.dev.20160529.3).
405 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
406 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
407 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
409 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
410 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
411 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
414 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
415 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
416 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
418 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
419 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
420 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
421 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
424 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
425 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
426 there, handle PRX and TFO.
428 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
429 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
430 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
431 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
432 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
434 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
435 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
436 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
437 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
440 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
441 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
443 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
446 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
447 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
448 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
449 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
450 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
452 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
454 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
455 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
456 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
457 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
458 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
459 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
461 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
462 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
464 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
465 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
466 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
468 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
469 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
472 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
473 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
474 of a new variable: $auth4.
476 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
477 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
478 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
479 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
480 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
482 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
483 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
484 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
485 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
487 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
488 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
489 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
491 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
492 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
493 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
494 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
497 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
498 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
499 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
502 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
503 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
504 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
505 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
507 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
508 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
510 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
511 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
512 looked as if if might be one.
514 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
515 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
516 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
517 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
518 messages can show the proxy information.
520 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
521 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
522 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
523 "queue_time_exclusive".
525 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
526 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
527 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
529 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
530 making it unusable in complex expressions.
532 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
533 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
536 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
538 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
540 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
542 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
543 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
544 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
545 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
547 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
548 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
550 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
551 better. Reported by Qualys.
553 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
554 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
557 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
559 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
562 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
564 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
565 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
566 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
567 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
569 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
570 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
572 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
573 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
574 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
575 mode until after various protocol state checks.
576 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
578 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
580 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
581 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
583 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
586 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
587 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
588 executed child processes (if any).
590 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
593 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
594 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
595 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
596 been reported on other platforms.
598 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
600 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
601 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
602 Not supported on Solaris 10.
604 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
605 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
606 since fakereject was originally introduced.
608 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
609 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
611 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
612 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
613 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
616 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
617 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
618 which only permit IP addresses.
624 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
625 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
626 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
628 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
630 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
631 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
634 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
635 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
636 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
638 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
640 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
642 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
643 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
644 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
646 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
647 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
648 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
650 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
651 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
653 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
654 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
657 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
658 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
659 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
660 should both provide the file and set the option.
661 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
663 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
664 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
666 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
667 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
668 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
669 Authentication-Results: header.
671 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
672 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
673 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
674 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
676 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
677 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
678 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
679 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
680 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
681 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
682 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
684 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
685 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
686 copies while it is still usable.
688 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
689 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
690 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
692 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
693 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
695 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
696 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
697 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
698 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
700 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
701 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
702 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
705 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
706 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
707 - the pipe transport command
708 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
709 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
711 - paths used by single-key lookups
712 Previously this was permitted.
714 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
715 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
716 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
717 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
719 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
720 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
721 support larger malloc requests.
723 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
724 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
725 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
726 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
728 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
729 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
730 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
731 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
734 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
735 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
736 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
737 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
738 data being length-specified.
740 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
741 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
742 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
743 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
745 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
746 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
747 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
748 not being properly tracked.
750 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
751 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
752 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
753 minute could be seen.
755 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
756 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
757 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
759 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
760 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
762 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
763 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
766 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
768 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
769 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
771 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
772 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
773 filesystem as sufficient validation.
775 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
776 argument is supplied.
778 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
779 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
780 access under Exim's current working directory.
782 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
783 Previously no event was raised.
785 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
786 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
787 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
790 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
791 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
792 the size of the signature hash.
794 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
795 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
797 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
798 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
799 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
800 dropped between messages.
802 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
803 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
804 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
805 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
807 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
808 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
809 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
810 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
811 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
812 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
813 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
814 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
815 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
817 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
818 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
819 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
821 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
822 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
829 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
830 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
832 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
833 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
836 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
839 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
841 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
843 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
844 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
846 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
847 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
848 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
849 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
850 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
851 suitably configured).
853 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
854 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
856 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
857 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
860 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
861 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
863 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
864 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
865 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
866 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
869 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
870 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
871 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
873 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
876 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
877 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
879 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
880 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
881 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
882 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
885 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
886 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
887 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
888 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
891 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
892 shared (NFS) environment.
894 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
895 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
898 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
899 on some platforms for bit 31.
901 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
902 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
903 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
904 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
905 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
906 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
907 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
908 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
910 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
912 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
913 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
915 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
916 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
919 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
920 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
923 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
924 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
925 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
928 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
929 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
930 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
932 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
933 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
934 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
935 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
936 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
938 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
941 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
942 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
943 be requested on all coneections.
945 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
946 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
948 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
950 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
951 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
952 one for these; the option was ignored.
954 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
955 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
956 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
957 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
959 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
960 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
961 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
964 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
965 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
966 error ignored was made.
968 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
970 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
971 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
972 values, to catch one form of exploit.
974 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
975 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
976 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
978 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
979 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
982 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
983 them in our smtp response.
985 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
986 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
987 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
988 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
989 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
991 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
992 link count into consideration.
994 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
995 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
997 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
998 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
999 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1002 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1004 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1006 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1008 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1009 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1010 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1011 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1013 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1015 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1016 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1019 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1020 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1021 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1023 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1024 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1025 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1027 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1028 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1029 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1030 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1031 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1032 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1033 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1034 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1036 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1037 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1038 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1040 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1041 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1042 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1044 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1045 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1052 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1053 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1055 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1056 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1058 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1059 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1060 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1062 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1063 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1064 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1066 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1067 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1068 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1069 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1070 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1073 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1074 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1076 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1077 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1078 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1079 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1080 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1081 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1082 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1084 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1085 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1087 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1090 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1091 Previously this would segfault.
1093 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1096 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1097 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1098 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1099 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1100 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1101 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1103 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1105 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1106 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1107 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1108 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1110 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1112 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1113 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1114 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1115 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1117 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1119 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1121 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1122 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1123 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1125 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1126 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1127 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1129 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1131 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1132 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1133 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1134 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1136 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1137 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1138 promised '?' replacement.
1140 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1142 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1143 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1144 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1145 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1146 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1148 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1149 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1150 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1152 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1153 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1154 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1156 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1157 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1158 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1160 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1161 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1162 hope that is portable enough.
1164 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1165 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1166 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1167 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1169 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1170 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1171 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1173 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1174 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1175 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1176 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1178 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1179 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1181 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1182 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1183 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1184 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1186 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1187 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1188 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1190 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1191 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1192 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1193 the previous G, M, k.
1195 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1196 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1199 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1200 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1201 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1202 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1204 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1205 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1207 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1208 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1209 off past the nul-terimation.
1211 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1212 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1213 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1214 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1215 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1217 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1219 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1220 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1221 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1224 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1225 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1227 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1228 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1229 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1231 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1232 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1233 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1235 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1236 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1242 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1243 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1244 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1245 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1246 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1247 be defined in redis_servers.
1249 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1250 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1252 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1253 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1254 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1255 extant use locations.
1257 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1258 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1260 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1261 Previously only the last row was returned.
1263 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1264 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1265 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1266 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1269 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1270 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1271 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1272 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1273 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1274 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1275 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1276 Main pool for expansions.
1277 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1278 active in the testsuite.
1279 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1281 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1282 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1283 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1284 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1287 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1288 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1291 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1292 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1293 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1295 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1296 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1297 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1299 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1300 rows affected is given instead).
1302 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1303 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1305 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1306 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1307 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1308 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1309 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1311 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1312 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1313 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1315 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1316 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1317 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1318 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1321 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1322 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1323 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1326 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1328 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1329 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1331 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1332 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1333 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1335 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1336 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1337 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1340 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1341 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1343 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1344 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1345 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1347 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1348 for the build is renamed.
1350 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1351 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1352 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1354 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1355 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1356 result replacing the original.
1358 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1359 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1360 and the resources needed to be freed.
1362 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1364 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1367 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1368 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1369 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1370 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1372 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1373 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1375 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1376 newer versions of the scanner.
1378 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1379 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1380 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1381 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1382 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1383 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1384 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1386 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1387 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1388 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1389 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1390 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1391 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1392 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1393 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1394 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1395 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1397 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1398 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1400 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1402 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1403 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1405 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1406 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1408 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1409 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1410 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1412 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1413 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1414 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1415 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1417 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1418 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1421 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1422 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1424 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1425 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1426 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1427 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1428 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1430 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1431 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1434 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1435 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1437 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1440 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1441 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1442 "bare" representation.
1444 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1445 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1446 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1447 corrupted the output.
1453 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1454 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1455 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1456 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1458 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1459 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1461 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1462 This permits better logging.
1464 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1465 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1466 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1467 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1468 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1469 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1471 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1472 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1475 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1476 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1477 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1479 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1480 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1482 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1483 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1484 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1485 client, there is no benefit for these.
1486 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1487 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1488 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1491 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1492 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1494 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1495 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1496 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1498 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1499 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1501 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1502 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1503 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1504 signature and again for transmission.
1506 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1507 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1508 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1510 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1511 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1512 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1513 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1514 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1515 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1516 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1518 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1519 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1520 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1521 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1523 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1524 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1525 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1526 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1527 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1528 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1531 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1532 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1533 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1534 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1537 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1538 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1539 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1540 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1543 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1544 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1547 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1548 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1549 banner-time rejection.
1551 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1554 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1555 is the name of a transport.
1558 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1560 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1561 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1563 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1564 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1565 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1568 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1569 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1570 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1571 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1573 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1574 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1575 initial verify call returned a defer.
1577 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1578 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1580 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1581 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1583 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1584 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1586 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1587 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1589 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1590 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1593 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1594 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1596 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1597 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1598 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1600 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1601 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1602 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1603 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1605 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1606 and confused the parent.
1608 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1609 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1611 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1614 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1615 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1616 out-of-order delivery.
1618 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1619 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1620 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1623 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1624 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1627 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1628 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1629 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1631 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1632 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1633 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1634 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1635 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1636 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1638 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1639 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1640 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1642 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1643 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1644 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1646 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1647 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1648 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1649 though a different problem.
1655 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1656 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1658 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1660 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1661 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1663 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1664 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1666 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1667 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1668 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1669 before acknowledging the chunk.
1671 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1672 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1673 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1675 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1676 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1677 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1680 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1681 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1682 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1684 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1685 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1687 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1688 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1689 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1690 body hash calculated value.
1692 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1693 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1694 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1696 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1698 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1699 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1701 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1702 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1703 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1705 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1706 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1707 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1708 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1709 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1710 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1712 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1713 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1714 past that check, despite the cost.
1716 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1717 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1718 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1720 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1721 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1722 TLS library to consume.
1724 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1726 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1728 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1729 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1730 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1731 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1732 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1733 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1734 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1736 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1738 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1740 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1741 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1742 should be warning-free.
1744 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1746 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1747 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1749 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1750 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1751 general solution here.
1753 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1754 already-broken messages in the queue.
1756 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1758 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1764 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1765 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1767 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1768 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1769 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1771 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1772 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1773 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1774 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1775 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1776 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1777 if one fails this test.
1778 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1779 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1781 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1782 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1784 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1785 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1787 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1788 in rewrites and routers.
1790 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1791 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1793 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1794 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1796 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1798 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1801 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1802 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1803 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1804 connection after a verify cache hit.
1805 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1807 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1808 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1810 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1811 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1812 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1813 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1814 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1816 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1817 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1819 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1820 Previously they were not counted.
1822 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1823 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1824 that needed the lookup.
1826 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1827 distinguished as "(=".
1829 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1830 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1832 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1834 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1835 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1837 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1838 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1840 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1841 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1844 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1845 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1846 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1847 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1849 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1851 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1852 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1853 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1855 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1856 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1857 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1860 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1861 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1862 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1865 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1866 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1867 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1869 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1870 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1873 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1875 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1876 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1878 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1879 are not in the system include path.
1881 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1882 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1883 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1884 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1886 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1887 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1888 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1890 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1892 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1893 an incoming connection.
1895 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1898 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1899 fallback to "prime256v1".
1901 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1902 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1908 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1909 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1910 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1911 client dropping the TLS connection.
1913 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1914 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1916 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1917 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1918 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1919 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1922 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1923 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1924 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1925 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1926 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1927 check on the next write.
1929 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1930 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1931 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1932 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1933 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1935 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1936 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1938 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1939 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1940 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1942 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1943 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1944 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1945 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1947 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1948 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1950 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1951 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1953 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1954 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1955 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1958 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1960 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1962 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1964 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1965 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1967 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1968 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1970 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1972 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1973 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1975 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1977 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1978 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1980 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1982 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1983 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1984 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1985 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1986 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1987 they will retry in-clear.
1988 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1989 at installation time.
1991 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1992 with the $config_file variable.
1994 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1995 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1996 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1997 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1998 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2000 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2001 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2002 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2003 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2004 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2006 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2008 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2009 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2010 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2011 list order is no longer honoured.
2013 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2014 for DKIM processing.
2016 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2017 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2019 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2020 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2021 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2022 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2024 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2025 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2027 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2028 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2030 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2031 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2033 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2035 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2036 cached by the daemon.
2038 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2039 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2041 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2042 keys are given for lookup.
2044 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2045 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2046 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2047 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2049 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2050 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2051 server-side so match that on older versions.
2053 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2054 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2055 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2057 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2058 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2060 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2061 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2062 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2063 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2064 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2065 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2066 initial truncated version.
2068 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2070 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2072 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2073 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2075 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2077 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2079 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2080 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2083 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2084 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2087 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2088 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2090 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2091 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2094 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2095 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2096 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2098 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2099 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2100 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2101 extraction. Accept either.
2107 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2110 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2112 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2115 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2116 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2117 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2118 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2120 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2121 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2122 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2124 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2125 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2126 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2129 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2132 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2133 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2134 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2135 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2136 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2138 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2139 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2140 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2142 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2144 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2145 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2147 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2148 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2150 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2153 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2154 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2156 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2157 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2158 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2160 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2161 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2162 specify a port-range.
2164 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2165 timeout value per server.
2167 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2168 now have the list separator specified.
2170 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2173 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2176 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2178 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2179 rather than the verbs used.
2181 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2182 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2184 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2186 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2187 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2189 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2190 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2192 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2193 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2195 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2197 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2199 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2200 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2201 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2202 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2204 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2206 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2207 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2209 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2210 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2212 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2214 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2216 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2218 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2219 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2221 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2222 added for tls authenticator.
2224 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2230 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2231 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2232 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2233 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2234 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2235 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2236 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2238 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2239 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2240 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2241 function when detected.
2243 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2244 cause callback expansion.
2246 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2247 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2248 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2249 instead of bool when processing it.
2251 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2252 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2254 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2256 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2258 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2260 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2261 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2263 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2264 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2265 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2266 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2267 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2268 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2270 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2271 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2274 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2275 version 3.3.6 or later.
2277 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2278 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2279 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2280 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2281 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2282 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2285 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2286 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2288 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2289 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2290 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2293 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2294 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2295 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2297 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2298 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2300 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2301 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2304 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2306 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2307 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2309 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2310 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2313 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2315 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2318 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2319 output list separator was used.
2324 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2325 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2328 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2329 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2331 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2333 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2334 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2340 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2342 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2343 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2344 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2345 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2346 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2347 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2349 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2350 utilities have not been installed.
2352 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2353 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2355 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2356 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2358 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2359 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2360 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2361 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2363 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2365 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2366 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2368 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2371 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2373 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2374 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2375 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2377 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2378 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2379 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2380 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2381 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2382 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2384 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2386 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2387 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2389 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2392 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2394 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2396 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2397 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2399 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2400 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2402 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2404 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2406 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2407 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2409 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2410 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2411 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2413 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2414 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2415 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2418 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2420 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2421 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2424 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2425 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2428 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2429 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2431 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2432 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2434 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2436 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2437 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2438 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2440 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2441 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2443 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2444 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2447 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2448 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2449 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2451 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2453 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2454 Christian Aistleitner.
2456 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2458 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2459 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2461 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2462 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2464 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2465 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2467 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2468 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2470 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2471 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2473 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2474 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2475 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2477 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2479 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2480 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2483 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2485 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2486 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2493 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2495 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2496 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2498 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2501 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2502 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2505 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2507 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2508 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2509 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2510 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2511 using channel bindings instead).
2513 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2514 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2515 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2516 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2517 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2520 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2522 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2524 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2525 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2527 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2528 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2529 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2531 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2533 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2535 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2536 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2538 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2540 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2542 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2544 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2545 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2547 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2549 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2550 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2553 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2554 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2556 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2557 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2560 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2562 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2564 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2565 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2567 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2570 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2571 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2573 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2574 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2576 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2578 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2580 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2583 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2586 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2588 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2589 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2590 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2591 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2593 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2595 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2596 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2597 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2598 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2601 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2602 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2603 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2605 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2606 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2607 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2608 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2610 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2611 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2612 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2613 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2614 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2615 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2616 delivery, as in LMTP.
2618 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2619 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2621 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2623 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2627 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2628 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2629 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2630 username as equal to the username.
2632 This change corrects that bug.
2634 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2635 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2636 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2638 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2640 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2641 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2642 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2643 NULL dereference and crash.
2645 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2647 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2648 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2649 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2651 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2653 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2654 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2655 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2656 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2657 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2658 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2659 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2660 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2661 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2662 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2663 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2665 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2666 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2668 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2669 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2672 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2673 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2674 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2675 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2676 an empty string is now equivalent.
2678 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2679 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2680 not performing validation itself.
2682 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2683 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2685 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2688 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2690 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2691 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2692 other false fix of the same issue.
2693 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2696 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2697 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2699 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2700 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2701 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2703 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2704 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2705 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2707 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2709 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2711 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2712 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2714 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2717 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2718 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2719 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2720 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2721 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2723 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2724 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2726 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2727 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2730 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2731 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2732 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2733 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2735 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2737 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2738 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2739 from multiple comments on this bug.
2741 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2743 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2744 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2747 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2748 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2750 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2751 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2757 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2759 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2765 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2766 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2767 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2769 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2771 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2774 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2776 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2778 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2780 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2781 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2783 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2784 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2786 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2787 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2789 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2790 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2791 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2793 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2795 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2796 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2798 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2800 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2802 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2803 non-compliant senders.
2804 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2806 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2807 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2808 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2810 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2811 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2812 in spool file corruption.
2814 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2815 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2816 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2819 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2820 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2821 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2823 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2824 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2826 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2828 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2830 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2832 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2833 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2834 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2836 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2837 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2838 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2839 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2841 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2842 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2844 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2845 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2846 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2847 resolver implementation change.
2849 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2850 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2852 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2854 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2856 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2857 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2859 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2860 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2862 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2863 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2865 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2866 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2867 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2868 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2869 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2871 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2873 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2874 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2875 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2877 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2879 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2880 read-only, out of scope).
2881 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2883 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2884 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2885 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2886 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2888 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2890 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2891 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2892 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2893 real issues in debug logging.
2895 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2896 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2898 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2899 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2900 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2902 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2903 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2904 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2907 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2908 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2910 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2911 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2912 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2913 needs to override this, it can.
2915 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2916 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2917 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2919 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2920 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2921 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2922 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2924 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2930 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2931 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2933 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2935 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2938 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2939 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2941 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2942 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2943 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2945 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2946 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2947 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2948 not safe for signals.
2950 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2951 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2952 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2953 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2956 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2958 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2959 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2960 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2961 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2962 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2964 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2965 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2966 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2967 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2968 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2969 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2971 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2972 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2973 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2974 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2976 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2977 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2978 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2979 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2981 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2982 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2983 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2984 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2985 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2986 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2987 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2988 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2989 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2991 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2992 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2993 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2994 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2996 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2997 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2998 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2999 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3000 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3001 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3002 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3003 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3004 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3005 details in the main documentation.
3007 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3009 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3011 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3012 repository when doing development or release builds.
3014 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3015 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3017 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3018 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3021 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3023 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3024 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3026 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3027 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3029 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3030 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3032 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3033 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3035 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3036 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3038 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3040 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3043 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3044 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3045 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3047 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3049 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3051 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3052 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3058 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3060 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3061 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3063 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3065 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3067 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3070 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3071 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3073 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3074 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3076 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3077 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3079 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3082 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3083 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3085 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3086 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3087 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3088 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3090 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3091 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3097 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3100 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3101 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3102 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3104 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3105 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3107 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3108 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3109 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3111 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3112 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3114 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3115 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3117 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3118 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3120 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3121 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3123 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3124 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3126 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3129 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3130 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3132 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3133 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3135 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3136 SQL string expansion failure details.
3137 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3139 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3140 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3142 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3143 extern declarations in function scope.
3144 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3146 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3147 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3148 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3151 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3152 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3154 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3155 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3157 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3158 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3160 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3161 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3163 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3164 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3167 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3169 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3171 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3172 Patch by Simon Arlott
3174 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3175 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3181 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3182 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3184 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3185 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3187 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3189 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3190 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3191 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3193 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3194 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3195 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3197 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3198 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3199 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3200 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3202 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3203 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3204 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3205 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3207 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3208 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3209 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3212 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3215 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3216 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3217 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3218 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3219 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3225 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3226 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3227 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3229 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3230 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3232 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3234 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3236 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3238 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3240 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3242 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3243 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3244 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3245 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3247 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3248 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3249 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3250 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3251 more caution in buffer sizes.
3253 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3255 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3257 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3259 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3261 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3263 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3265 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3267 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3268 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3269 ignore trailing whitespace.
3271 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3273 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3276 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3277 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3279 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3280 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3281 Notification from John Horne.
3283 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3286 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3287 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3290 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3293 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3294 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3295 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3297 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3298 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3299 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3302 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3303 option (effectively making it always true).
3305 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3306 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3308 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3309 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3311 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3312 run-time user, instead of root.
3314 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3315 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3317 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3318 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3321 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3322 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3323 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3325 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3327 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3333 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3334 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3337 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3338 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3341 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3342 Patch from Alain Williams
3344 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3346 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3347 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3349 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3350 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3352 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3354 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3356 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3357 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3359 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3361 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3363 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3364 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3365 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3367 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3368 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3370 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3371 Patch by Simon Arlott
3373 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3374 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3380 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3382 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3384 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3386 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3388 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3394 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3395 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3397 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3398 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3401 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3402 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3403 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3405 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3406 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3408 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3409 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3410 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3411 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3413 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3414 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3415 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3417 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3419 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3421 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3422 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3424 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3426 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3427 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3428 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3429 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3431 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3432 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3434 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3436 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3438 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3439 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3441 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3442 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3444 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3445 that they are available at delivery time.
3447 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3449 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3450 incoming_port log selectors.
3452 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3453 setting expands to an empty string.
3455 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3456 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3458 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3459 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3461 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3462 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3464 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3465 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3467 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3468 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3470 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3471 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3473 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3475 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3476 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3478 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3479 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3481 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3483 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3484 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3486 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3488 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3490 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3493 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3494 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3496 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3497 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3499 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3500 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3502 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3503 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3505 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3506 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3508 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3509 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3511 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3512 plus update to original patch.
3514 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3516 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3517 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3519 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3521 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3523 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3525 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3527 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3528 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3530 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3531 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3533 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3534 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3536 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3537 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3539 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3541 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3543 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3545 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3551 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3552 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3553 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3555 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3556 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3557 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3558 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3559 build errors in sieve.c.
3561 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3562 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3563 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3565 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3567 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3569 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3571 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3577 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3579 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3580 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3581 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3582 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3583 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3584 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3585 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3586 for iplsearch lookups.
3588 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3589 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3590 previously such lookups could never work.
3592 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3593 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3594 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3596 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3599 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3600 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3601 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3602 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3603 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3604 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3606 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3607 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3609 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3610 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3611 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3612 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3613 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3614 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3616 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3619 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3621 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3622 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3625 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3626 by clients under certain conditions.
3628 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3629 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3631 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3633 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3634 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3636 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3638 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3640 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3642 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3643 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3645 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3647 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3648 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3650 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3652 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3654 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3655 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3656 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3657 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3659 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3660 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3661 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3663 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3664 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3666 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3668 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3670 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3672 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3673 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3674 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3680 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3681 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3684 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3685 issue a MAIL command.
3687 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3689 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3691 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3692 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3693 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3694 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3695 item. This has been fixed.
3697 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3698 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3700 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3701 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3703 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3704 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3705 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3707 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3709 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3710 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3711 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3712 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3713 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3715 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3716 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3717 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3719 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3720 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3721 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3722 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3724 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3726 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3728 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3729 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3730 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3731 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3732 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3734 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3736 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3737 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3738 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3741 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3743 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3745 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3747 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3749 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3751 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3752 no_callout_flush is set.
3754 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3755 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3756 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3759 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3761 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3762 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3763 other ACL rejections are.
3765 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3766 with slight modification.
3768 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3769 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3771 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3772 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3775 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3776 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3778 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3780 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3781 expansion side effects.
3783 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3784 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3785 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3788 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3789 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3790 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3792 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3793 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3794 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3795 were accidentally chopped off.
3797 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3798 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3799 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3800 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3801 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3802 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3803 pipelining has not been advertised.
3805 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3807 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3808 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3809 This has been fixed.
3811 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3812 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3813 reported on Solaris.
3815 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3816 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3817 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3818 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3819 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3820 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3821 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3823 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3826 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3828 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3830 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3831 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3832 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3833 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3834 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3835 criteria to be more general.
3837 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3838 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3839 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3840 host_all_ignored option.
3842 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3843 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3844 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3845 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3846 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3847 is what is supposed to happen).
3849 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3850 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3851 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3852 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3853 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3856 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3857 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3858 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3859 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3860 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3861 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3864 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3866 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3867 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3869 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3870 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3872 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3874 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3876 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3877 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3878 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3879 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3880 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3881 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3882 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3883 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3884 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3885 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3886 least in a lot of common cases.
3888 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3889 advertised in response to EHLO.
3895 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3896 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3898 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3899 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3901 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3902 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3903 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3905 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3906 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3907 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3908 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3909 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3915 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3916 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3919 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3920 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3921 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3923 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3924 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3925 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3926 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3927 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3928 rather than extend the field.
3934 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3935 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3936 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3937 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3940 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3941 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3942 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3944 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3945 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3946 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3948 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3949 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3950 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3953 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3954 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3955 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3956 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3957 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3958 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3959 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3960 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3961 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3962 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3963 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3965 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3968 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3969 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3970 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3971 ignores EPIPE as well.
3973 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3974 (quoted-printable decoding).
3976 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3977 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3979 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3981 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3983 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3985 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3986 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3988 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3991 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3992 miscellaneous code fixes
3994 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3997 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3998 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3999 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4000 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4001 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4002 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4003 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4004 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4006 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4007 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4008 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4009 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4011 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4012 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4013 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4014 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4015 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4016 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4017 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4018 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4019 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4021 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4024 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4025 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4026 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4027 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4028 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4029 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4030 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4031 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4033 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4034 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4037 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4038 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4039 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4040 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4041 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4042 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4043 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4044 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4045 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4046 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4047 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4048 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4049 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4051 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4052 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4053 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4054 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4055 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4056 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4057 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4059 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4060 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4061 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4062 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4063 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4064 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4065 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4066 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4067 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4068 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4070 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4071 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4072 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4073 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4074 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4076 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4077 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4078 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4079 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4080 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4081 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4082 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4084 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4085 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4086 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4087 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4088 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4089 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4092 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4093 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4094 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4097 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4098 if any retry times were supplied.
4100 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4101 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4102 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4104 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4106 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4108 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4109 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4110 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4111 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4112 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4113 before) are ignored.
4115 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4116 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4118 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4119 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4120 committing the later change.]
4122 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4123 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4124 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4125 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4126 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4127 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4128 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4129 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4130 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4132 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4133 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4134 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4135 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4136 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4137 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4138 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4139 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4140 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4142 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4143 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4144 hammering the server.
4146 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4147 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4149 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4151 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4152 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4153 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4155 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4156 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4157 one case where this was not true.
4159 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4160 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4161 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4162 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4165 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4166 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4167 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4168 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4169 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4170 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4171 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4172 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4173 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4176 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4177 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4178 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4179 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4181 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4182 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4184 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4185 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4186 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4188 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4190 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4192 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4194 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4195 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4196 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4197 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4199 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4200 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4202 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4203 be meaningful with "accept".
4205 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4206 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4208 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4209 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4210 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4212 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4213 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4214 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4215 there is data to show.
4216 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4218 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4219 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4220 as well as the number of messages.
4222 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4223 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4224 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4226 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4227 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4228 have a flag are now skipped.
4230 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4231 Added the -emptyok flag.
4233 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4234 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4236 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4237 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4238 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4240 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4243 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4244 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4246 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4248 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4249 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4251 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4253 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4254 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4255 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4256 contravention of the specifications.
4258 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4259 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4260 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4262 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4263 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4264 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4266 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4268 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4269 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4270 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4271 some point in the past.
4273 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4274 transport during callout processing was broken.
4276 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4277 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4279 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4280 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4282 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4283 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4285 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4291 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4292 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4294 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4295 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4296 there is data to show.
4297 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4299 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4300 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4302 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4303 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4305 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4306 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4308 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4309 submissions from trusted users.
4311 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4312 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4314 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4315 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4316 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4317 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4318 there is now a framework to start from.
4320 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4321 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4322 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4324 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4326 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4328 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4330 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4331 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4332 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4334 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4337 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4338 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4339 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4341 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4342 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4343 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4346 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4347 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4348 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4349 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4350 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4352 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4353 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4355 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4357 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4358 operations in malware.c.
4360 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4363 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4364 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4365 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4368 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4369 statements to "add_header".
4371 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4372 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4374 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4375 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4378 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4382 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4383 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4384 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4387 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4388 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4390 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4391 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4393 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4394 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4395 any possible encoding problems.
4397 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4398 but not after initializing Perl.
4400 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4401 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4402 apparently, which is not desirable.
4404 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4407 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4410 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4412 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4413 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4414 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4415 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4417 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4418 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4419 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4421 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4422 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4423 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4426 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4427 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4428 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4429 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4430 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4436 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4437 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4439 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4442 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4443 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4444 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4445 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4446 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4447 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4448 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4449 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4452 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4454 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4455 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4456 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4458 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4459 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4460 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4463 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4464 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4466 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4467 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4468 option (which defaults to 0600).
4470 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4472 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4473 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4474 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4475 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4476 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4477 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4478 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4480 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4486 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4487 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4488 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4489 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4490 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4491 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4494 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4495 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4497 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4499 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4500 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4501 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4502 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4503 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4506 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4507 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4509 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4510 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4511 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4512 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4513 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4515 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4516 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4517 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4518 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4520 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4521 be the same on different OS.
4523 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4526 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4527 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4529 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4532 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4533 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4534 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4535 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4536 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4537 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4540 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4541 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4542 when Exim was called.
4544 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4545 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4547 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4548 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4549 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4550 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4552 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4553 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4554 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4555 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4558 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4559 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4560 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4562 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4563 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4564 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4566 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4569 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4570 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4571 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4572 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4573 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4574 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4575 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4576 values from the SRV records were lost.
4578 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4579 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4580 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4582 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4583 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4584 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4586 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4587 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4588 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4589 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4590 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4591 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4592 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4593 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4594 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4595 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4597 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4598 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4599 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4601 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4602 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4604 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4605 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4606 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4607 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4610 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4611 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4612 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4614 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4615 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4616 PH/23 above applies.
4618 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4619 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4620 (for which there is an explicit test).
4622 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4624 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4625 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4626 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4627 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4628 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4630 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4631 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4632 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4633 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4635 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4636 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4637 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4639 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4641 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4643 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4644 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4645 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4647 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4648 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4649 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4650 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4651 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4653 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4654 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4655 the message gets confusing).
4657 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4658 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4659 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4660 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4662 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4663 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4664 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4665 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4668 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4669 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4670 the different processes.
4672 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4674 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4676 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4677 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4679 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4680 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4682 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4683 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4684 messages matching specified criteria.
4686 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4688 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4689 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4691 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4692 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4693 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4694 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4695 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4696 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4697 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4698 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4699 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4700 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4702 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4703 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4704 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4706 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4708 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4709 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4710 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4711 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4712 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4713 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4714 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4717 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4718 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4720 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4722 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4724 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4726 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4727 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4728 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4729 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4730 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4731 size of the count of files.
4733 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4735 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4738 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4739 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4740 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4741 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4743 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4744 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4745 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4747 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4748 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4749 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4750 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4751 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4753 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4754 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4756 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4757 will now be deprecated.
4759 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4761 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4762 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4763 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4765 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4766 with very large, slow to parse queues
4768 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4770 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4772 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4773 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4774 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4777 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4778 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4779 Sieve code now uses this.
4781 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4782 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4784 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4785 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4787 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4789 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4790 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4791 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4792 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4793 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4795 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4796 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4797 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4798 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4800 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4802 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4804 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4805 is preferred over IPv4.
4807 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4808 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4809 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4810 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4811 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4812 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4813 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4815 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4816 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4817 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4819 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4821 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4822 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4823 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4824 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4825 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4826 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4827 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4828 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4829 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4830 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4831 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4833 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4834 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4835 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4841 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4843 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4844 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4846 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4847 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4848 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4850 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4852 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4855 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4858 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4859 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4860 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4863 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4864 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4866 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4867 inside the third argument.
4869 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4870 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4873 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4874 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4876 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4877 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4879 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4881 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4882 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4885 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4887 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4888 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4889 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4890 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4891 identical. For example:
4893 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4895 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4896 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4897 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4899 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4900 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4901 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4902 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4904 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4905 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4906 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4909 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4911 o fixes some comments
4912 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4913 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4914 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4915 and documents the missing references header update
4919 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4920 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4923 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4924 Electronic Mail") by including:
4926 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4928 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4929 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4930 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4931 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4932 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4934 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4936 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4938 The auto-replied keyword:
4940 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4941 message by an automatic process,
4943 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4945 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4946 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4948 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4949 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4952 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4953 to the default Received: header definition.
4955 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4957 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4958 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4959 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4961 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4962 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4963 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4965 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4966 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4967 and treats the condition as false.
4969 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4971 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4972 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4973 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4974 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4975 not changing the active code.
4977 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4978 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4980 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4981 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4983 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4986 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4987 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4988 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4989 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4990 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4991 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4992 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4993 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4994 the text comparison.
4996 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4997 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4998 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4999 The same fix has been applied.
5005 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5006 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5009 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5010 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5012 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5014 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5015 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5016 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5017 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5018 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5020 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5021 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5022 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5023 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5026 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5034 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5035 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5037 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5039 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5041 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5042 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5043 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5045 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5046 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5047 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5049 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5050 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5053 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5054 ${stat: expansion item.
5056 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5057 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5059 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5060 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5063 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5065 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5068 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5069 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5071 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5073 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5074 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5075 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5076 the end of the subprocess.
5078 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5079 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5080 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5081 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5082 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5084 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5086 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5088 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5089 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5091 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5093 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5095 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5096 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5099 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5101 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5102 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5103 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5105 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5106 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5108 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5109 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5111 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5112 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5114 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5115 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5117 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5118 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5119 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5120 contributed by a Radius user.
5122 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5123 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5125 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5126 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5128 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5131 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5132 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5135 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5136 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5137 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5138 header lines when this was not necessary.
5140 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5142 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5143 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5144 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5147 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5150 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5151 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5152 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5153 return code was incorrect.
5155 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5157 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5159 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5161 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5163 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5164 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5165 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5166 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5167 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5170 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5172 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5173 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5174 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5175 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5176 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5177 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5178 which is clearly wrong.
5180 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5182 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5183 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5184 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5187 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5188 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5190 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5192 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5193 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5195 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5196 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5198 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5199 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5201 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5202 recipients, not senders.
5204 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5205 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5207 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5209 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5211 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5212 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5213 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5214 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5216 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5218 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5219 clock is set back in time.
5221 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5222 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5224 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5225 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5227 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5228 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5231 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5232 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5235 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5238 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5240 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5241 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5242 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5244 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5245 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5246 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5247 helo verification defer as a failure.
5249 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5250 actual error message.
5256 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5258 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5259 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5260 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5261 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5263 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5265 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5266 can still be requested.
5268 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5269 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5270 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5271 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5273 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5274 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5275 circumstances, but probably never did.
5277 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5278 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5279 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5282 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5284 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5285 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5287 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5289 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5291 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5292 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5293 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5294 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5295 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5296 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5298 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5299 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5300 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5301 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5302 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5303 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5305 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5306 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5308 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5309 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5311 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5312 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5314 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5316 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5318 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5320 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5322 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5324 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5326 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5328 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5329 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5330 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5332 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5333 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5334 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5335 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5337 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5338 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5339 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5341 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5342 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5343 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5344 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5346 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5347 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5350 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5351 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5352 should work with maildirs and everything.
5354 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5355 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5357 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5360 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5361 function for BDB 4.3.
5363 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5365 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5366 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5369 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5370 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5371 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5372 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5373 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5374 formatting function string_vformat().
5376 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5377 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5378 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5379 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5380 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5381 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5382 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5383 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5385 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5386 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5389 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5390 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5392 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5393 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5394 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5395 test. It is now used for both.
5397 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5398 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5399 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5400 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5401 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5402 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5404 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5405 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5406 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5409 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5410 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5411 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5413 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5414 experimental DomainKeys support:
5416 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5417 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5418 the control was given.
5420 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5422 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5424 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5426 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5427 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5428 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5431 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5432 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5433 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5434 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5435 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5436 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5439 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5440 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5441 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5442 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5443 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5444 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5446 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5447 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5448 do -d+all out of habit.
5450 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5451 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5454 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5455 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5456 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5457 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5458 record types that Exim uses.
5460 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5461 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5462 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5463 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5464 non-existent file that was broken.
5466 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5467 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5469 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5470 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5471 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5473 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5475 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5476 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5477 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5478 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5479 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5482 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5483 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5484 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5485 at a slight CPU cost.
5487 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5488 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5490 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5493 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5495 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5496 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5502 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5503 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5505 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5507 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5509 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5510 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5512 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5513 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5514 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5515 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5516 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5517 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5520 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5521 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5522 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5523 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5526 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5527 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5528 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5529 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5530 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5531 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5532 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5535 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5536 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5538 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5539 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5540 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5541 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5542 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5543 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5545 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5546 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5547 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5548 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5550 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5553 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5554 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5556 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5557 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5558 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5559 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5562 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5564 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5565 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5567 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5568 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5569 to what was transported.)
5571 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5573 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5574 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5575 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5576 spamd_address settings.
5578 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5579 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5580 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5581 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5582 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5584 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5586 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5587 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5588 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5589 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5590 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5592 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5593 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5595 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5596 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5597 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5598 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5599 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5600 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5601 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5604 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5605 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5606 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5607 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5608 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5609 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5610 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5613 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5615 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5616 driver and ACL definitions.
5618 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5619 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5621 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5622 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5623 understands it better than I do:
5625 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5626 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5628 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5629 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5630 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5631 => three warnings about OTP not working
5632 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5634 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5635 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5636 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5637 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5639 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5640 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5642 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5643 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5644 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5646 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5647 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5650 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5651 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5654 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5655 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5656 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5658 warn !verify = sender
5659 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5661 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5662 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5664 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5666 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5667 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5669 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5670 nomenclature these days.)
5672 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5673 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5675 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5676 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5677 . First host does not offer TLS;
5678 . First host accepts first address;
5679 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5680 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5681 . Second host accepts second address.
5682 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5683 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5686 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5687 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5688 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5689 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5690 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5692 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5693 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5695 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5696 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5698 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5699 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5700 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5702 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5703 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5706 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5708 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5709 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5710 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5711 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5712 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5713 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5714 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5716 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5717 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5718 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5719 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5720 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5722 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5723 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5726 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5727 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5728 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5729 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5730 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5731 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5733 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5735 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5736 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5737 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5738 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5739 printable escape sequences.
5741 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5742 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5745 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5746 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5749 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5750 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5751 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5752 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5753 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5755 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5756 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5757 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5759 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5761 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5762 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5765 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5766 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5767 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5768 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5769 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5770 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5771 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5772 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5773 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5776 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5777 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5778 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5779 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5783 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5784 ----------------------------------------
5786 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5787 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5788 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5789 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5790 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5791 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5794 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5795 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5796 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5797 historical information.
5803 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5805 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5806 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5808 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5809 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5812 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5813 filter fails to execute.
5815 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5816 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5817 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5818 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5819 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5821 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5823 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5824 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5825 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5826 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5828 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5829 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5830 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5831 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5832 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5834 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5836 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5838 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5839 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5840 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5841 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5843 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5844 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5845 sender verification.
5847 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5848 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5850 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5852 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5855 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5856 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5858 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5859 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5861 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5862 information about exactly what failed.
5864 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5866 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5867 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5868 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5870 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5871 It is now set to "smtps".
5873 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5874 ignore_target_hosts.
5876 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5877 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5878 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5879 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5882 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5883 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5884 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5886 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5887 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5888 wake it up if nothing else does.
5890 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5891 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5892 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5895 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5896 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5898 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5900 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5901 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5902 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5903 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5904 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5905 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5906 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5907 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5909 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5910 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5911 than one IP address.
5913 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5914 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5915 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5916 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5918 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5919 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5920 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5921 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5922 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5925 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5926 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5927 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5928 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5930 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5931 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5934 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5935 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5936 $sender_host_address.
5938 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5939 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5940 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5941 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5942 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5945 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5947 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5948 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5950 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5951 just the host names, not the priorities.
5953 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5954 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5955 controlled by a keyword.
5957 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5958 multiple records are returned.
5960 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5961 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5964 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5966 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5967 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5969 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5970 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5971 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5973 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5975 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5977 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5979 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5980 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5981 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5982 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5983 because the tests only now provoked it.
5985 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5986 (this can affect the format of dates).
5988 47. 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 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5995 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5996 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5997 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5998 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6000 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6001 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6002 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6004 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6007 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6008 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6009 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6010 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6011 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6012 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6015 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6016 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6017 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6020 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6021 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6022 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6024 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6025 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6026 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6027 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6028 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6029 so I produce this patch..."
6031 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6032 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6035 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6036 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6037 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6038 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6041 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6043 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6044 long debug lines gets shown.
6046 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6047 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6049 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6051 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6052 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6053 of $primary_hostname.
6055 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6056 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6057 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6058 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6059 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6060 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6061 by change 4.50/55 above.
6063 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6064 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6065 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6066 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6067 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6068 running as the user.
6071 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6072 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6073 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6076 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6077 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6079 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6080 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6081 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6082 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6083 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6085 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6086 This has been fixed.
6088 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6089 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6090 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6091 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6094 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6096 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6097 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6098 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6099 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6101 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6102 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6104 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6105 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6106 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6108 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6109 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6110 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6113 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6114 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6115 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6117 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6118 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6119 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6120 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6122 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6123 during host lookups.
6125 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6126 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6128 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6130 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6131 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6132 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6133 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6134 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6137 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6138 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6140 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6141 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6142 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6144 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6146 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6147 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6148 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6149 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6150 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6151 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6154 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6155 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6156 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6157 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6158 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6160 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6163 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6165 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6166 "vacation" handling.
6168 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6169 OS variants using glibc.
6171 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6174 ----------------------------------------------------
6175 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6176 ----------------------------------------------------
6182 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6183 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6186 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6187 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6190 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6191 filter fails to execute.
6193 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6194 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6195 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6196 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6197 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6199 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6200 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6201 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6202 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6204 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6205 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6206 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6207 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6208 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6210 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6212 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6213 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6214 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6215 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6217 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6218 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6219 sender verification.
6221 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6222 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6224 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6225 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6227 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6228 ignore_target_hosts.
6230 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6231 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6232 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6233 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6236 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6237 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6238 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6240 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6241 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6242 wake it up if nothing else does.
6244 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6245 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6246 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6249 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6250 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6252 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6254 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6255 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6258 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6259 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6262 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6263 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6264 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6265 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6266 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6269 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6270 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6273 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6274 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6275 $sender_host_address.
6277 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6279 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6280 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6281 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6283 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6286 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6287 (this can affect the format of dates).
6289 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6290 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6291 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6292 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6294 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6295 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6296 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6298 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6299 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6300 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6301 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6303 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6304 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6305 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6307 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6310 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6311 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6312 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6313 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6314 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6315 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6318 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6319 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6320 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6321 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6324 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6325 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6326 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6327 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6328 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6329 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6330 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6332 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6333 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6334 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6335 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6336 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6337 running as the user.
6340 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6341 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6342 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6345 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6346 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6347 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6348 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6349 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6351 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6352 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6353 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6354 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6357 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6358 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6359 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6360 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6361 because the tests only now provoked it.
6367 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6368 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6369 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6370 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6371 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6372 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6373 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6375 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6376 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6379 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6381 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6383 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6384 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6387 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6388 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6389 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6390 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6391 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6393 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6394 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6396 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6398 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6400 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6403 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6404 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6406 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6407 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6408 affecting debugging statements).
6410 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6412 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6413 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6414 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6415 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6416 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6417 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6418 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6419 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6420 after the received time, and all would be well.
6422 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6423 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6424 condition in an expansion string.
6426 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6428 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6429 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6430 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6431 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6432 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6433 job under whatever limits there are.
6435 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6437 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6440 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6441 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6442 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6443 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6446 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6447 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6448 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6449 binary data in such strings.
6451 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6453 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6454 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6455 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6456 failure, which is pointless.
6458 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6460 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6462 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6463 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6464 Sender: header lines.
6466 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6467 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6468 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6470 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6471 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6472 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6473 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6474 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6477 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6478 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6479 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6480 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6481 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6483 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6484 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6485 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6488 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6489 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6491 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6492 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6494 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6496 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6498 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6500 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6503 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6505 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6507 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6508 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6509 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6510 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6512 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6513 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6519 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6520 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6521 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6523 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6524 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6525 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6526 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6527 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6528 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6530 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6531 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6532 verification failure".
6534 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6535 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6536 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6537 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6539 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6540 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6541 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6542 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6543 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6544 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6545 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6546 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6547 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6548 treated as a timeout.
6550 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6551 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6552 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6553 not set for Exim filters).
6555 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6556 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6557 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6559 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6561 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6562 try to make them clearer.
6564 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6565 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6567 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6569 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6571 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6572 only the Cygwin environment.
6574 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6575 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6576 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6577 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6578 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6580 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6581 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6582 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6583 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6584 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6585 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6586 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6588 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6589 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6591 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6593 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6594 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6595 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6597 To: susanne@some.where
6599 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6600 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6601 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6602 of addresses in From: header lines).
6604 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6605 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6606 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6608 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6609 treated as non-personal.
6611 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6612 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6614 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6616 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6618 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6619 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6620 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6622 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6623 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6625 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6626 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6627 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6628 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6629 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6630 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6632 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6633 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6634 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6635 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6636 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6637 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6638 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6639 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6641 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6643 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6644 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6646 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6647 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6648 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6650 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6651 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6653 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6654 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6655 rather than long int.
6657 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6659 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6665 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6666 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6667 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6668 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6669 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6670 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6676 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6677 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6679 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6680 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6681 socklen_t is defined.
6683 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6686 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6689 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6690 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6691 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6692 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6693 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6695 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6696 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6697 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6698 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6700 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6701 of flapping under certain conditions.
6703 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6704 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6705 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6707 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6709 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6711 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6712 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6713 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6714 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6716 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6717 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6718 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6719 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6720 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6721 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6722 preserved with the message after it was received.
6724 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6725 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6726 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6727 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6728 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6729 test suite worked just fine.
6731 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6732 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6733 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6735 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6736 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6739 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6740 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6741 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6742 does not fully solve it.
6744 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6745 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6746 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6747 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6748 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6750 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6751 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6752 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6754 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6755 string, for example:
6757 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6759 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6760 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6761 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6762 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6763 the routers could not see them.
6765 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6766 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6768 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6769 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6772 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6773 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6774 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6775 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6776 that needed quoting.
6778 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6779 was not being matched caselessly.
6781 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6784 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6785 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6786 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6787 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6788 when use_sender is false.
6790 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6792 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6794 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6796 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6797 the configuration file.
6799 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6800 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6802 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6804 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6805 bytes in the message body.
6807 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6808 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6811 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6813 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6815 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6816 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6817 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6818 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6825 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6826 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6828 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6829 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6830 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6831 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6832 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6834 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6835 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6837 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6838 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6839 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6841 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6842 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6843 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6845 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6848 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6849 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6850 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6851 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6852 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6853 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6854 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6860 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6861 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6862 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6863 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6864 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6865 default (and expected) setting.
6867 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6868 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6869 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6870 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6872 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6873 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6875 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6878 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6879 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6880 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6881 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6882 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6883 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6885 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6886 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6887 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6889 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6890 part (NOT match_host).
6892 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6894 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6895 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6896 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6897 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6898 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6899 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6900 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6901 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6902 the same named file.
6904 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6905 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6908 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6909 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6910 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6911 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6914 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6915 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6916 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6918 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6920 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6922 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6924 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6925 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6927 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6928 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6929 before starting the TLS session.
6931 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6933 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6934 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6936 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6937 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6938 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6939 colon in the middle).
6945 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6946 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6947 multiple configurations are in use.
6949 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6950 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6951 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6952 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6953 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6954 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6956 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6957 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6959 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6960 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6961 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6963 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6964 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6967 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6968 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6970 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6972 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6973 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6975 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6983 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6984 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6985 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6986 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6987 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6989 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6992 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6993 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6994 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6995 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6996 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6997 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6999 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7000 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7001 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7002 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7003 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7004 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7005 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7008 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7009 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7010 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7011 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7012 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7014 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7016 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7017 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7018 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7020 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7022 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7023 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7024 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7027 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7028 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7030 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7031 Three changes have been made:
7033 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7034 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7035 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7036 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7037 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7039 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7042 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7043 the modified behaviour.
7049 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7052 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7053 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7055 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7056 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7057 try to track down a specific problem.
7059 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7060 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7061 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7063 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7066 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7067 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7068 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7069 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7070 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7071 some earlier ones do not.
7073 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7075 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7076 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7077 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7078 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7079 address literals are enabled, of course).
7081 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7083 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7084 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7085 by a command such as
7089 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7091 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7093 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7094 remained set. It is now erased.
7096 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7097 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7099 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7100 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7101 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7102 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7103 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7104 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7105 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7106 appropriate error code.
7108 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7109 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7110 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7111 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7112 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7113 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7115 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7116 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7117 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7119 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7120 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7121 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7122 terminate the header.
7124 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7125 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7126 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7128 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7129 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7130 (4.30/29). In particular:
7132 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7135 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7136 to write a maildirsize file.
7138 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7139 the transport, the new value overrides.
7141 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7144 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7145 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7146 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7149 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7150 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7151 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7154 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7155 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7156 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7158 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7159 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7162 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7163 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7164 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7166 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7168 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7170 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7172 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7173 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7176 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7177 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7178 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7179 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7180 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7181 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7182 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7185 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7186 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7187 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7188 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7189 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7192 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7193 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7194 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7195 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7196 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7197 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7198 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7199 cached value only when the same options are set.
7201 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7203 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7204 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7205 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7206 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7207 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7209 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7210 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7211 it is clearly obsolete.
7213 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7216 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7217 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7218 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7221 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7222 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7223 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7224 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7225 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7227 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7228 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7229 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7230 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7232 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7234 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7236 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7237 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7240 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7241 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7242 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7243 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7244 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7245 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7248 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7249 with the -f command-line option.
7251 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7252 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7253 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7254 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7255 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7256 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7258 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7259 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7262 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7263 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7264 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7265 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7266 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7267 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7268 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7269 buffer is too small.
7271 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7272 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7274 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7275 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7276 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7277 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7278 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7279 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7280 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7281 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7282 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7284 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7285 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7286 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7288 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7289 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7292 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7293 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7294 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7295 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7296 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7298 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7299 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7300 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7301 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7304 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7306 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7308 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7309 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7311 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7312 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7313 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7315 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7316 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7317 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7318 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7319 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7321 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7322 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7323 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7324 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7325 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7326 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7327 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7329 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7330 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7331 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7332 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7333 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7334 the test of how many are available.
7336 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7337 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7338 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7339 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7340 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7341 new message is started.
7343 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7344 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7346 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7347 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7349 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7350 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7351 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7354 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7355 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7356 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7357 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7358 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7359 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7360 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7362 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7363 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7364 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7365 interpreted as octal.
7367 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7370 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7371 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7372 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7373 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7374 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7375 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7377 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7378 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7379 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7380 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7382 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7383 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7384 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7385 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7387 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7388 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7391 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7392 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7394 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7396 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7397 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7398 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7399 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7401 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7402 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7403 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7404 supplied", which is not helpful.
7406 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7407 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7408 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7410 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7411 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7412 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7413 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7414 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7415 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7416 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7417 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7419 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7420 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7421 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7422 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7423 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7425 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7426 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7427 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7428 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7429 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7430 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7432 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7433 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7434 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7436 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7438 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7439 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7440 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7443 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7445 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7446 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7447 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7448 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7449 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7450 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7451 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7452 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7454 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7455 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7456 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7457 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7458 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7460 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7463 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7464 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7465 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7466 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7467 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7468 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7469 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7470 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7471 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7477 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7478 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7479 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7481 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7484 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7485 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7486 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7488 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7489 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7490 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7491 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7492 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7493 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7495 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7496 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7497 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7498 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7499 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7500 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7501 the Exim test suite.
7503 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7504 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7505 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7506 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7508 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7509 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7510 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7511 specify it in this variable.
7513 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7514 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7515 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7516 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7518 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7519 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7520 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7521 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7523 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7524 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7525 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7526 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7527 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7529 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7531 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7534 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7535 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7536 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7537 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7538 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7540 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7541 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7543 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7544 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7545 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7546 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7547 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7549 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7550 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7552 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7553 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7554 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7556 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7557 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7559 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7560 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7562 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7563 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7564 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7566 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7567 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7569 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7570 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7571 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7572 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7574 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7576 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7577 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7578 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7579 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7581 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7583 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7584 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7586 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7588 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7589 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7590 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7591 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7592 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7593 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7595 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7597 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7598 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7601 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7603 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7604 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7606 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7607 550 Sender verify failed
7609 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7610 the final line of the response.
7612 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7613 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7614 all other user lookups.
7616 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7619 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7620 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7621 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7622 result into an int without checking.
7624 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7625 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7626 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7628 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7629 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7630 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7631 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7633 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7636 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7637 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7639 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7640 to the empty sender.
7642 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7643 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7644 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7645 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7646 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7647 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7648 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7651 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7652 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7653 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7654 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7657 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7658 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7660 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7663 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7664 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7666 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7668 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7669 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7672 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7673 as soon as it is encountered.
7675 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7677 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7680 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7681 recognizes a tab character.
7683 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7684 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7685 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7686 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7688 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7690 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7693 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7695 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7697 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7698 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7701 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7702 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7703 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7704 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7705 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7707 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7708 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7710 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7711 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7712 list (.included file names were always shown).
7714 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7715 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7716 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7719 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7720 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7722 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7724 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7726 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7728 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7729 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7730 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7731 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7732 failures to open the logs.
7734 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7735 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7736 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7737 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7738 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7739 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7740 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7746 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7747 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7748 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7751 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7752 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7753 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7755 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7756 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7757 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7759 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7760 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7761 causing some misleading effects.
7763 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7764 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7765 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7767 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7768 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7769 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7770 queue-runner function directly.
7776 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7779 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7780 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7781 was always written to the default place.
7783 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7784 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7785 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7787 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7789 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7791 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7792 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7793 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7795 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7796 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7799 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7800 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7801 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7803 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7804 command line option is disabled.
7806 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7807 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7809 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7811 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7813 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7814 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7816 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7818 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7819 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7820 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7821 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7822 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7823 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7825 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7826 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7829 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7830 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7832 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7833 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7835 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7836 received was valid base64.
7838 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7839 name of the variable that was being set.
7841 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7843 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7844 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7845 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7846 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7847 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7848 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7850 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7852 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7853 nor realm was specified.
7855 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7856 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7857 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7858 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7860 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7861 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7862 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7864 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7865 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7866 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7868 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7869 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7870 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7871 some systems use these upper case variants.
7873 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7874 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7875 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7876 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7878 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7880 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7881 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7883 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7884 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7887 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7889 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7890 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7891 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7892 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7894 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7897 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7898 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7899 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7901 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7902 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7904 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7905 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7906 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7907 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7909 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7910 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7911 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7913 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7915 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7916 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7917 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7918 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7921 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7922 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7923 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7925 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7927 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7928 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7930 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7931 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7933 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7934 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7935 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7936 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7937 when emails are that large.
7944 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7945 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7947 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7948 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7949 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7951 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7952 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7953 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7955 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7956 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7957 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7958 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7959 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7961 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7962 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7963 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7964 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7965 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7968 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7969 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7970 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7971 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7972 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7973 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7974 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7975 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7976 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7977 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7978 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7979 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7980 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7981 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7983 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7984 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7987 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7988 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7989 error should be diagnosed.
7991 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7992 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7993 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7994 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7995 appeared instead of "NULL".
7997 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7998 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7999 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8000 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8001 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8002 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8005 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8006 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8007 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8013 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8014 or receiver verification errors.
8016 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8019 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8020 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8021 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8022 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8024 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8025 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8026 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8027 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8028 shouldn't happen again.
8030 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8031 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8032 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8034 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8035 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8037 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8039 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8040 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8042 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8043 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8046 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8047 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8048 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8050 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8051 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8052 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8053 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8055 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8056 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8057 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8058 to define what should happen).
8060 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8061 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8062 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8064 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8066 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8068 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8069 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8071 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8072 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8073 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8074 structure in all cases.
8076 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8077 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8078 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8079 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8081 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8082 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8085 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8086 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8088 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8089 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8091 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8092 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8093 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8095 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8096 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8097 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8099 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8100 the book and for uniformity.
8102 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8104 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8105 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8106 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8107 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8108 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8109 non-existent command as the problem.
8111 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8112 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8113 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8115 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8117 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8118 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8119 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8121 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8122 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8123 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8124 timestamps using strftime().
8126 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8127 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8129 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8130 transport-time rewrites.
8132 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8133 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8134 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8135 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8137 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8138 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8140 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8141 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8142 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8143 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8146 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8147 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8148 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8149 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8150 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8151 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8152 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8154 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8155 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8156 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8157 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8158 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8160 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8161 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8162 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8163 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8164 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8165 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8166 remaining text gets split now.
8168 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8169 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8170 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8171 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8173 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8174 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8175 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8176 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8179 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8180 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8181 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8182 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8183 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8184 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8185 passed through if needed.
8187 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8188 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8189 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8190 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8191 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8192 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8194 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8195 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8196 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8197 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8198 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8200 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8201 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8202 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8203 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8204 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8206 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8207 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8210 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8211 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8212 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8213 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8214 mayhem of various kinds.
8216 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8217 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8218 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8219 the right test for positive values.
8221 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8222 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8223 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8224 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8225 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8226 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8227 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8228 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8229 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8230 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8233 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8236 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8237 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8240 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8241 the existing equality matching.
8243 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8244 dealing with inode numbers.
8246 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8247 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8248 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8250 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8251 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8252 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8253 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8256 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8257 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8258 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8259 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8260 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8261 relay addresses has also been removed.
8263 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8265 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8266 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8267 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8269 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8270 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8271 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8272 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8273 processing applies to CR:
8275 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8276 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8278 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8279 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8280 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8281 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8283 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8284 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8285 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8287 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8288 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8289 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8290 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8291 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8292 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8295 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8298 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8299 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8300 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8301 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8304 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8306 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8308 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8310 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8311 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8312 not considered personal.
8314 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8316 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8318 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8320 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8321 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8322 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8323 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8324 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8325 header lines, and spool format errors.
8327 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8328 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8329 for more flexibility.
8331 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8332 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8333 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8335 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8338 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8339 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8340 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8341 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8342 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8343 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8344 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8345 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8346 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8348 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8349 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8350 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8351 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8352 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8353 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8354 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8356 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8357 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8358 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8360 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8361 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8362 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8363 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8364 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8365 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8366 instead of killing the process with assert().
8368 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8369 than Unicode encoding.
8371 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8372 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8373 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8374 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8376 77. Added process_log_path.
8378 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8379 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8381 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8382 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8384 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8385 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8386 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8388 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8389 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8390 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8391 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8392 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8395 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8396 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8399 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8400 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8401 they will be used during message reception.
8407 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.