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/20 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 looks.
105 JH/21 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
112 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
113 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
114 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
117 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
118 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
120 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
121 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
122 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
123 not be modified by local-scan code.
125 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
126 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
128 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
129 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
132 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
133 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
135 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
136 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
139 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
140 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
141 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
143 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
144 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
145 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
147 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
148 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
149 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
150 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
151 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
152 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
153 Assorted crashes happen.
155 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
156 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
157 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
160 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
161 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
162 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
163 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
165 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
166 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
167 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
170 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
172 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
173 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
176 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
177 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
178 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
180 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
181 result of expansion operators and items.
183 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
184 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
185 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
186 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
188 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
190 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
191 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
192 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
193 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
196 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
197 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
199 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
200 Previously only the domain part was returned.
202 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
203 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
204 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
205 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
207 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
208 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
209 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
210 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
212 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
213 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
214 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
215 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
216 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
219 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
220 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
221 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
223 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
224 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
225 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
226 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
228 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
229 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
230 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
231 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
233 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
234 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
235 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
236 Previously only the server IP was used.
238 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
239 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
240 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
241 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
243 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
244 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
245 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
247 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
248 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
249 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
252 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
253 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
255 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
256 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
262 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
263 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
264 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
266 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
267 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
268 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
269 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
271 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
272 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
273 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
274 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
275 so could be handling tainted values.
277 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
278 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
279 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
281 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
282 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
283 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
286 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
287 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
288 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
289 to align better with RFC 6125.
291 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
292 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
293 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
294 by adding a release action in that path.
296 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
297 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
298 dynamically-created buffers.
300 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
301 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
302 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
303 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
305 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
306 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
307 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
308 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
310 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
311 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
312 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
314 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
315 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
316 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
317 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
319 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
320 excluded, not matching the documentation.
322 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
323 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
325 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
326 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
327 this was a coding error.
329 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
330 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
331 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
332 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
333 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
334 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
335 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
337 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
338 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
339 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
340 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
342 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
343 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
344 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
345 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
346 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
348 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
349 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
352 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
353 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
354 domain-parking registrar.
356 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
357 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
358 after removing the newline.
360 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
361 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
362 option set, which was previously used.
364 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
367 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
368 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
369 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
370 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
372 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
373 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
374 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
375 exim.dev.20160529.3).
377 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
378 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
379 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
381 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
382 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
383 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
386 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
387 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
388 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
390 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
391 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
392 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
393 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
396 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
397 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
398 there, handle PRX and TFO.
400 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
401 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
402 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
403 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
404 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
406 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
407 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
408 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
409 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
412 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
413 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
415 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
418 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
419 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
420 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
421 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
422 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
424 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
426 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
427 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
428 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
429 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
430 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
431 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
433 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
434 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
436 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
437 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
438 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
440 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
441 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
444 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
445 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
446 of a new variable: $auth4.
448 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
449 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
450 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
451 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
452 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
454 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
455 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
456 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
457 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
459 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
460 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
461 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
463 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
464 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
465 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
466 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
469 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
470 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
471 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
474 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
475 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
476 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
477 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
479 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
480 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
482 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
483 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
484 looked as if if might be one.
486 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
487 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
488 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
489 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
490 messages can show the proxy information.
492 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
493 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
494 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
495 "queue_time_exclusive".
497 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
498 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
499 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
501 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
502 making it unusable in complex expressions.
504 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
505 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
508 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
510 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
512 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
514 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
515 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
516 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
517 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
519 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
520 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
522 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
523 better. Reported by Qualys.
525 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
526 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
529 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
531 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
534 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
536 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
537 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
538 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
539 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
541 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
542 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
544 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
545 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
546 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
547 mode until after various protocol state checks.
548 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
550 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
552 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
553 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
555 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
558 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
559 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
560 executed child processes (if any).
562 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
565 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
566 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
567 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
568 been reported on other platforms.
570 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
572 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
573 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
574 Not supported on Solaris 10.
576 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
577 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
578 since fakereject was originally introduced.
580 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
581 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
583 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
584 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
585 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
588 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
589 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
590 which only permit IP addresses.
596 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
597 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
598 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
600 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
602 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
603 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
606 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
607 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
608 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
610 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
612 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
614 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
615 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
616 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
618 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
619 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
620 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
622 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
623 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
625 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
626 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
629 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
630 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
631 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
632 should both provide the file and set the option.
633 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
635 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
636 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
638 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
639 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
640 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
641 Authentication-Results: header.
643 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
644 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
645 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
646 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
648 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
649 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
650 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
651 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
652 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
653 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
654 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
656 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
657 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
658 copies while it is still usable.
660 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
661 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
662 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
664 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
665 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
667 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
668 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
669 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
670 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
672 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
673 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
674 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
677 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
678 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
679 - the pipe transport command
680 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
681 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
683 - paths used by single-key lookups
684 Previously this was permitted.
686 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
687 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
688 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
689 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
691 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
692 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
693 support larger malloc requests.
695 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
696 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
697 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
698 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
700 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
701 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
702 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
703 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
706 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
707 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
708 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
709 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
710 data being length-specified.
712 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
713 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
714 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
715 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
717 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
718 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
719 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
720 not being properly tracked.
722 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
723 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
724 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
725 minute could be seen.
727 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
728 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
729 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
731 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
732 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
734 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
735 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
738 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
740 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
741 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
743 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
744 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
745 filesystem as sufficient validation.
747 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
748 argument is supplied.
750 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
751 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
752 access under Exim's current working directory.
754 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
755 Previously no event was raised.
757 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
758 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
759 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
762 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
763 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
764 the size of the signature hash.
766 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
767 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
769 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
770 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
771 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
772 dropped between messages.
774 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
775 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
776 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
777 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
779 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
780 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
781 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
782 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
783 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
784 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
785 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
786 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
787 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
789 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
790 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
791 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
793 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
794 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
801 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
802 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
804 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
805 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
808 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
811 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
813 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
815 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
816 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
818 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
819 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
820 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
821 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
822 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
823 suitably configured).
825 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
826 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
828 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
829 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
832 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
833 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
835 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
836 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
837 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
838 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
841 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
842 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
843 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
845 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
848 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
849 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
851 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
852 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
853 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
854 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
857 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
858 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
859 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
860 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
863 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
864 shared (NFS) environment.
866 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
867 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
870 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
871 on some platforms for bit 31.
873 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
874 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
875 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
876 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
877 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
878 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
879 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
880 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
882 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
884 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
885 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
887 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
888 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
891 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
892 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
895 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
896 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
897 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
900 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
901 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
902 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
904 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
905 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
906 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
907 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
908 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
910 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
913 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
914 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
915 be requested on all coneections.
917 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
918 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
920 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
922 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
923 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
924 one for these; the option was ignored.
926 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
927 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
928 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
929 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
931 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
932 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
933 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
936 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
937 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
938 error ignored was made.
940 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
942 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
943 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
944 values, to catch one form of exploit.
946 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
947 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
948 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
950 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
951 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
954 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
955 them in our smtp response.
957 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
958 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
959 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
960 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
961 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
963 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
964 link count into consideration.
966 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
967 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
969 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
970 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
971 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
974 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
976 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
978 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
980 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
981 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
982 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
983 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
985 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
987 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
988 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
991 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
992 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
993 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
995 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
996 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
997 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
999 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1000 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1001 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1002 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1003 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1004 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1005 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1006 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1008 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1009 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1010 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1012 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1013 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1014 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1016 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1017 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1024 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1025 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1027 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1028 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1030 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1031 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1032 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1034 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1035 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1036 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1038 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1039 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1040 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1041 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1042 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1045 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1046 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1048 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1049 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1050 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1051 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1052 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1053 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1054 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1056 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1057 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1059 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1062 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1063 Previously this would segfault.
1065 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1068 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1069 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1070 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1071 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1072 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1073 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1075 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1077 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1078 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1079 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1080 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1082 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1084 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1085 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1086 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1087 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1089 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1091 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1093 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1094 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1095 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1097 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1098 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1099 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1101 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1103 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1104 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1105 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1106 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1108 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1109 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1110 promised '?' replacement.
1112 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1114 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1115 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1116 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1117 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1118 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1120 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1121 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1122 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1124 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1125 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1126 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1128 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1129 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1130 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1132 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1133 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1134 hope that is portable enough.
1136 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1137 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1138 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1139 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1141 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1142 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1143 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1145 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1146 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1147 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1148 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1150 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1151 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1153 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1154 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1155 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1156 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1158 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1159 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1160 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1162 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1163 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1164 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1165 the previous G, M, k.
1167 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1168 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1171 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1172 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1173 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1174 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1176 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1177 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1179 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1180 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1181 off past the nul-terimation.
1183 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1184 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1185 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1186 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1187 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1189 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1191 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1192 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1193 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1196 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1197 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1199 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1200 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1201 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1203 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1204 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1205 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1207 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1208 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1214 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1215 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1216 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1217 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1218 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1219 be defined in redis_servers.
1221 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1222 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1224 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1225 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1226 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1227 extant use locations.
1229 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1230 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1232 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1233 Previously only the last row was returned.
1235 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1236 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1237 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1238 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1241 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1242 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1243 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1244 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1245 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1246 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1247 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1248 Main pool for expansions.
1249 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1250 active in the testsuite.
1251 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1253 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1254 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1255 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1256 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1259 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1260 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1263 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1264 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1265 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1267 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1268 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1269 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1271 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1272 rows affected is given instead).
1274 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1275 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1277 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1278 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1279 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1280 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1281 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1283 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1284 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1285 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1287 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1288 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1289 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1290 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1293 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1294 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1295 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1298 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1300 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1301 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1303 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1304 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1305 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1307 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1308 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1309 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1312 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1313 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1315 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1316 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1317 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1319 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1320 for the build is renamed.
1322 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1323 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1324 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1326 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1327 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1328 result replacing the original.
1330 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1331 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1332 and the resources needed to be freed.
1334 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1336 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1339 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1340 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1341 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1342 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1344 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1345 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1347 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1348 newer versions of the scanner.
1350 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1351 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1352 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1353 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1354 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1355 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1356 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1358 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1359 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1360 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1361 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1362 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1363 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1364 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1365 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1366 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1367 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1369 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1370 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1372 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1374 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1375 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1377 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1378 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1380 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1381 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1382 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1384 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1385 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1386 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1387 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1389 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1390 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1393 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1394 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1396 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1397 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1398 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1399 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1400 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1402 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1403 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1406 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1407 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1409 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1412 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1413 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1414 "bare" representation.
1416 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1417 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1418 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1419 corrupted the output.
1425 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1426 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1427 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1428 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1430 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1431 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1433 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1434 This permits better logging.
1436 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1437 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1438 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1439 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1440 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1441 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1443 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1444 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1447 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1448 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1449 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1451 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1452 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1454 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1455 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1456 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1457 client, there is no benefit for these.
1458 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1459 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1460 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1463 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1464 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1466 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1467 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1468 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1470 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1471 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1473 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1474 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1475 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1476 signature and again for transmission.
1478 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1479 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1480 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1482 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1483 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1484 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1485 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1486 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1487 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1488 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1490 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1491 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1492 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1493 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1495 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1496 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1497 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1498 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1499 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1500 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1503 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1504 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1505 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1506 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1509 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1510 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1511 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1512 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1515 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1516 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1519 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1520 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1521 banner-time rejection.
1523 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1526 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1527 is the name of a transport.
1530 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1532 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1533 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1535 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1536 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1537 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1540 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1541 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1542 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1543 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1545 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1546 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1547 initial verify call returned a defer.
1549 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1550 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1552 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1553 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1555 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1556 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1558 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1559 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1561 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1562 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1565 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1566 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1568 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1569 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1570 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1572 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1573 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1574 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1575 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1577 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1578 and confused the parent.
1580 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1581 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1583 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1586 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1587 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1588 out-of-order delivery.
1590 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1591 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1592 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1595 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1596 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1599 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1600 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1601 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1603 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1604 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1605 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1606 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1607 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1608 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1610 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1611 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1612 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1614 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1615 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1616 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1618 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1619 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1620 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1621 though a different problem.
1627 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1628 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1630 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1632 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1633 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1635 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1636 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1638 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1639 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1640 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1641 before acknowledging the chunk.
1643 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1644 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1645 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1647 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1648 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1649 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1652 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1653 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1654 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1656 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1657 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1659 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1660 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1661 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1662 body hash calculated value.
1664 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1665 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1666 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1668 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1670 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1671 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1673 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1674 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1675 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1677 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1678 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1679 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1680 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1681 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1682 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1684 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1685 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1686 past that check, despite the cost.
1688 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1689 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1690 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1692 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1693 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1694 TLS library to consume.
1696 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1698 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1700 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1701 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1702 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1703 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1704 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1705 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1706 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1708 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1710 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1712 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1713 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1714 should be warning-free.
1716 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1718 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1719 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1721 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1722 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1723 general solution here.
1725 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1726 already-broken messages in the queue.
1728 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1730 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1736 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1737 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1739 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1740 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1741 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1743 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1744 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1745 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1746 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1747 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1748 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1749 if one fails this test.
1750 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1751 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1753 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1754 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1756 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1757 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1759 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1760 in rewrites and routers.
1762 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1763 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1765 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1766 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1768 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1770 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1773 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1774 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1775 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1776 connection after a verify cache hit.
1777 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1779 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1780 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1782 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1783 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1784 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1785 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1786 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1788 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1789 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1791 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1792 Previously they were not counted.
1794 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1795 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1796 that needed the lookup.
1798 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1799 distinguished as "(=".
1801 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1802 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1804 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1806 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1807 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1809 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1810 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1812 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1813 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1816 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1817 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1818 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1819 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1821 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1823 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1824 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1825 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1827 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1828 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1829 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1832 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1833 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1834 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1837 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1838 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1839 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1841 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1842 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1845 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1847 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1848 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1850 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1851 are not in the system include path.
1853 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1854 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1855 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1856 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1858 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1859 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1860 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1862 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1864 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1865 an incoming connection.
1867 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1870 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1871 fallback to "prime256v1".
1873 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1874 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1880 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1881 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1882 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1883 client dropping the TLS connection.
1885 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1886 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1888 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1889 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1890 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1891 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1894 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1895 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1896 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1897 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1898 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1899 check on the next write.
1901 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1902 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1903 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1904 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1905 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1907 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1908 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1910 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1911 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1912 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1914 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1915 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1916 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1917 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1919 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1920 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1922 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1923 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1925 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1926 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1927 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1930 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1932 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1934 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1936 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1937 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1939 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1940 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1942 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1944 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1945 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1947 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1949 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1950 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1952 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1954 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1955 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1956 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1957 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1958 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1959 they will retry in-clear.
1960 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1961 at installation time.
1963 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1964 with the $config_file variable.
1966 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1967 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1968 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1969 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1970 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1972 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1973 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1974 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1975 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1976 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1978 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1980 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1981 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1982 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1983 list order is no longer honoured.
1985 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1986 for DKIM processing.
1988 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1989 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1991 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1992 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1993 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1994 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1996 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1997 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1999 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2000 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2002 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2003 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2005 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2007 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2008 cached by the daemon.
2010 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2011 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2013 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2014 keys are given for lookup.
2016 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2017 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2018 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2019 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2021 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2022 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2023 server-side so match that on older versions.
2025 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2026 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2027 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2029 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2030 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2032 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2033 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2034 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2035 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2036 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2037 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2038 initial truncated version.
2040 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2042 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2044 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2045 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2047 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2049 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2051 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2052 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2055 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2056 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2059 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2060 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2062 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2063 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2066 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2067 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2068 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2070 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2071 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2072 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2073 extraction. Accept either.
2079 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2082 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2084 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2087 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2088 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2089 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2090 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2092 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2093 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2094 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2096 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2097 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2098 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2101 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2104 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2105 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2106 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2107 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2108 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2110 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2111 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2112 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2114 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2116 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2117 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2119 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2120 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2122 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2125 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2126 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2128 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2129 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2130 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2132 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2133 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2134 specify a port-range.
2136 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2137 timeout value per server.
2139 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2140 now have the list separator specified.
2142 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2145 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2148 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2150 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2151 rather than the verbs used.
2153 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2154 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2156 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2158 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2159 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2161 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2162 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2164 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2165 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2167 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2169 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2171 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2172 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2173 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2174 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2176 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2178 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2179 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2181 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2182 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2184 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2186 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2188 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2190 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2191 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2193 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2194 added for tls authenticator.
2196 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2202 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2203 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2204 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2205 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2206 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2207 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2208 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2210 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2211 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2212 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2213 function when detected.
2215 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2216 cause callback expansion.
2218 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2219 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2220 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2221 instead of bool when processing it.
2223 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2224 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2226 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2228 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2230 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2232 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2233 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2235 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2236 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2237 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2238 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2239 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2240 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2242 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2243 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2246 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2247 version 3.3.6 or later.
2249 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2250 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2251 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2252 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2253 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2254 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2257 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2258 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2260 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2261 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2262 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2265 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2266 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2267 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2269 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2270 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2272 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2273 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2276 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2278 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2279 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2281 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2282 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2285 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2287 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2290 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2291 output list separator was used.
2296 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2297 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2300 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2301 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2303 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2305 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2306 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2312 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2314 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2315 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2316 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2317 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2318 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2319 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2321 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2322 utilities have not been installed.
2324 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2325 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2327 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2328 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2330 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2331 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2332 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2333 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2335 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2337 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2338 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2340 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2343 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2345 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2346 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2347 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2349 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2350 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2351 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2352 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2353 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2354 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2356 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2358 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2359 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2361 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2364 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2366 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2368 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2369 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2371 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2372 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2374 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2376 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2378 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2379 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2381 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2382 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2383 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2385 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2386 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2387 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2390 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2392 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2393 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2396 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2397 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2400 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2401 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2403 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2404 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2406 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2408 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2409 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2410 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2412 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2413 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2415 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2416 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2419 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2420 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2421 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2423 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2425 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2426 Christian Aistleitner.
2428 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2430 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2431 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2433 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2434 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2436 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2437 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2439 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2440 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2442 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2443 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2445 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2446 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2447 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2449 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2451 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2452 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2455 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2457 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2458 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2465 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2467 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2468 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2470 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2473 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2474 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2477 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2479 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2480 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2481 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2482 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2483 using channel bindings instead).
2485 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2486 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2487 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2488 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2489 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2492 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2494 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2496 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2497 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2499 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2500 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2501 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2503 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2505 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2507 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2508 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2510 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2512 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2514 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2516 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2517 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2519 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2521 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2522 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2525 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2526 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2528 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2529 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2532 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2534 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2536 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2537 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2539 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2542 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2543 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2545 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2546 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2548 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2550 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2552 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2555 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2558 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2560 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2561 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2562 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2563 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2565 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2567 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2568 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2569 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2570 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2573 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2574 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2575 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2577 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2578 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2579 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2580 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2582 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2583 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2584 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2585 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2586 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2587 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2588 delivery, as in LMTP.
2590 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2591 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2593 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2595 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2599 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2600 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2601 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2602 username as equal to the username.
2604 This change corrects that bug.
2606 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2607 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2608 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2610 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2612 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2613 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2614 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2615 NULL dereference and crash.
2617 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2619 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2620 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2621 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2623 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2625 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2626 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2627 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2628 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2629 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2630 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2631 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2632 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2633 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2634 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2635 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2637 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2638 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2640 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2641 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2644 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2645 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2646 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2647 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2648 an empty string is now equivalent.
2650 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2651 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2652 not performing validation itself.
2654 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2655 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2657 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2660 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2662 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2663 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2664 other false fix of the same issue.
2665 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2668 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2669 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2671 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2672 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2673 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2675 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2676 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2677 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2679 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2681 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2683 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2684 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2686 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2689 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2690 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2691 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2692 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2693 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2695 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2696 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2698 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2699 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2702 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2703 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2704 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2705 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2707 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2709 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2710 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2711 from multiple comments on this bug.
2713 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2715 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2716 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2719 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2720 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2722 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2723 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2729 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2731 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2737 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2738 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2739 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2741 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2743 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2746 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2748 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2750 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2752 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2753 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2755 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2756 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2758 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2759 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2761 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2762 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2763 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2765 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2767 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2768 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2770 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2772 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2774 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2775 non-compliant senders.
2776 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2778 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2779 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2780 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2782 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2783 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2784 in spool file corruption.
2786 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2787 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2788 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2791 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2792 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2793 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2795 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2796 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2798 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2800 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2802 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2804 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2805 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2806 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2808 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2809 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2810 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2811 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2813 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2814 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2816 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2817 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2818 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2819 resolver implementation change.
2821 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2822 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2824 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2826 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2828 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2829 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2831 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2832 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2834 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2835 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2837 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2838 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2839 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2840 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2841 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2843 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2845 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2846 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2847 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2849 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2851 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2852 read-only, out of scope).
2853 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2855 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2856 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2857 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2858 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2860 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2862 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2863 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2864 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2865 real issues in debug logging.
2867 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2868 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2870 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2871 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2872 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2874 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2875 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2876 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2879 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2880 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2882 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2883 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2884 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2885 needs to override this, it can.
2887 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2888 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2889 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2891 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2892 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2893 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2894 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2896 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2902 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2903 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2905 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2907 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2910 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2911 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2913 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2914 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2915 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2917 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2918 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2919 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2920 not safe for signals.
2922 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2923 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2924 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2925 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2928 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2930 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2931 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2932 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2933 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2934 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2936 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2937 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2938 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2939 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2940 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2941 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2943 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2944 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2945 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2946 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2948 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2949 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2950 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2951 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2953 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2954 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2955 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2956 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2957 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2958 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2959 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2960 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2961 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2963 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2964 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2965 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2966 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2968 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2969 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2970 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2971 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2972 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2973 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2974 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2975 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2976 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2977 details in the main documentation.
2979 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2981 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2983 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2984 repository when doing development or release builds.
2986 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2987 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2989 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2990 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2993 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2995 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2996 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2998 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2999 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3001 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3002 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3004 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3005 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3007 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3008 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3010 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3012 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3015 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3016 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3017 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3019 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3021 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3023 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3024 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3030 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3032 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3033 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3035 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3037 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3039 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3042 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3043 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3045 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3046 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3048 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3049 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3051 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3054 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3055 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3057 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3058 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3059 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3060 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3062 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3063 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3069 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3072 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3073 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3074 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3076 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3077 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3079 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3080 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3081 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3083 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3084 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3086 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3087 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3089 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3090 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3092 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3093 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3095 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3096 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3098 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3101 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3102 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3104 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3105 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3107 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3108 SQL string expansion failure details.
3109 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3111 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3112 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3114 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3115 extern declarations in function scope.
3116 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3118 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3119 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3120 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3123 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3124 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3126 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3127 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3129 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3130 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3132 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3133 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3135 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3136 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3139 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3141 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3143 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3144 Patch by Simon Arlott
3146 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3147 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3153 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3154 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3156 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3157 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3159 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3161 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3162 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3163 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3165 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3166 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3167 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3169 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3170 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3171 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3172 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3174 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3175 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3176 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3177 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3179 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3180 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3181 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3184 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3187 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3188 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3189 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3190 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3191 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3197 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3198 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3199 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3201 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3202 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3204 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3206 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3208 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3210 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3212 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3214 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3215 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3216 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3217 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3219 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3220 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3221 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3222 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3223 more caution in buffer sizes.
3225 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3227 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3229 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3231 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3233 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3235 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3237 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3239 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3240 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3241 ignore trailing whitespace.
3243 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3245 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3248 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3249 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3251 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3252 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3253 Notification from John Horne.
3255 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3258 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3259 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3262 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3265 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3266 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3267 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3269 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3270 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3271 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3274 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3275 option (effectively making it always true).
3277 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3278 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3280 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3281 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3283 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3284 run-time user, instead of root.
3286 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3287 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3289 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3290 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3293 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3294 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3295 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3297 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3299 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3305 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3306 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3309 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3310 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3313 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3314 Patch from Alain Williams
3316 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3318 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3319 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3321 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3322 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3324 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3326 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3328 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3329 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3331 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3333 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3335 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3336 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3337 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3339 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3340 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3342 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3343 Patch by Simon Arlott
3345 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3346 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3352 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3354 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3356 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3358 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3360 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3366 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3367 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3369 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3370 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3373 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3374 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3375 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3377 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3378 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3380 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3381 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3382 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3383 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3385 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3386 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3387 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3389 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3391 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3393 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3394 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3396 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3398 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3399 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3400 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3401 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3403 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3404 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3406 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3408 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3410 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3411 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3413 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3414 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3416 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3417 that they are available at delivery time.
3419 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3421 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3422 incoming_port log selectors.
3424 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3425 setting expands to an empty string.
3427 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3428 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3430 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3431 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3433 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3434 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3436 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3437 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3439 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3440 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3442 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3443 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3445 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3447 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3448 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3450 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3451 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3453 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3455 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3456 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3458 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3460 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3462 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3465 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3466 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3468 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3469 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3471 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3472 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3474 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3475 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3477 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3478 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3480 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3481 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3483 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3484 plus update to original patch.
3486 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3488 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3489 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3491 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3493 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3495 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3497 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3499 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3500 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3502 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3503 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3505 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3506 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3508 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3509 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3511 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3513 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3515 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3517 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3523 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3524 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3525 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3527 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3528 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3529 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3530 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3531 build errors in sieve.c.
3533 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3534 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3535 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3537 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3539 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3541 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3543 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3549 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3551 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3552 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3553 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3554 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3555 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3556 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3557 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3558 for iplsearch lookups.
3560 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3561 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3562 previously such lookups could never work.
3564 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3565 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3566 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3568 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3571 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3572 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3573 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3574 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3575 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3576 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3578 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3579 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3581 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3582 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3583 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3584 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3585 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3586 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3588 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3591 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3593 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3594 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3597 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3598 by clients under certain conditions.
3600 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3601 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3603 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3605 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3606 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3608 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3610 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3612 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3614 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3615 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3617 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3619 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3620 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3622 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3624 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3626 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3627 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3628 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3629 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3631 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3632 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3633 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3635 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3636 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3638 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3640 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3642 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3644 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3645 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3646 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3652 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3653 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3656 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3657 issue a MAIL command.
3659 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3661 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3663 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3664 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3665 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3666 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3667 item. This has been fixed.
3669 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3670 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3672 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3673 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3675 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3676 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3677 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3679 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3681 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3682 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3683 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3684 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3685 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3687 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3688 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3689 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3691 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3692 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3693 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3694 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3696 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3698 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3700 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3701 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3702 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3703 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3704 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3706 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3708 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3709 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3710 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3713 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3715 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3717 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3719 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3721 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3723 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3724 no_callout_flush is set.
3726 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3727 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3728 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3731 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3733 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3734 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3735 other ACL rejections are.
3737 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3738 with slight modification.
3740 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3741 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3743 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3744 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3747 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3748 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3750 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3752 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3753 expansion side effects.
3755 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3756 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3757 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3760 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3761 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3762 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3764 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3765 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3766 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3767 were accidentally chopped off.
3769 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3770 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3771 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3772 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3773 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3774 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3775 pipelining has not been advertised.
3777 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3779 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3780 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3781 This has been fixed.
3783 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3784 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3785 reported on Solaris.
3787 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3788 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3789 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3790 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3791 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3792 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3793 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3795 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3798 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3800 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3802 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3803 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3804 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3805 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3806 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3807 criteria to be more general.
3809 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3810 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3811 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3812 host_all_ignored option.
3814 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3815 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3816 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3817 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3818 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3819 is what is supposed to happen).
3821 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3822 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3823 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3824 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3825 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3828 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3829 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3830 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3831 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3832 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3833 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3836 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3838 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3839 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3841 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3842 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3844 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3846 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3848 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3849 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3850 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3851 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3852 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3853 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3854 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3855 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3856 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3857 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3858 least in a lot of common cases.
3860 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3861 advertised in response to EHLO.
3867 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3868 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3870 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3871 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3873 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3874 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3875 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3877 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3878 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3879 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3880 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3881 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3887 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3888 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3891 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3892 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3893 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3895 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3896 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3897 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3898 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3899 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3900 rather than extend the field.
3906 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3907 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3908 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3909 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3912 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3913 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3914 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3916 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3917 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3918 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3920 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3921 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3922 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3925 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3926 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3927 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3928 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3929 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3930 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3931 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3932 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3933 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3934 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3935 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3937 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3940 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3941 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3942 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3943 ignores EPIPE as well.
3945 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3946 (quoted-printable decoding).
3948 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3949 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3951 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3953 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3955 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3957 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3958 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3960 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3963 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3964 miscellaneous code fixes
3966 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3969 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3970 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3971 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3972 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3973 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3974 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3975 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3976 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3978 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3979 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3980 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3981 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3983 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3984 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3985 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3986 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3987 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3988 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3989 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3990 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3991 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3993 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3996 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3997 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3998 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3999 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4000 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4001 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4002 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4003 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4005 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4006 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4009 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4010 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4011 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4012 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4013 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4014 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4015 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4016 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4017 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4018 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4019 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4020 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4021 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4023 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4024 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4025 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4026 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4027 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4028 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4029 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4031 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4032 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4033 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4034 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4035 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4036 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4037 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4038 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4039 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4040 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4042 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4043 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4044 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4045 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4046 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4048 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4049 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4050 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4051 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4052 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4053 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4054 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4056 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4057 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4058 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4059 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4060 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4061 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4064 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4065 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4066 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4069 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4070 if any retry times were supplied.
4072 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4073 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4074 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4076 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4078 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4080 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4081 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4082 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4083 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4084 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4085 before) are ignored.
4087 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4088 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4090 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4091 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4092 committing the later change.]
4094 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4095 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4096 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4097 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4098 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4099 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4100 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4101 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4102 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4104 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4105 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4106 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4107 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4108 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4109 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4110 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4111 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4112 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4114 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4115 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4116 hammering the server.
4118 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4119 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4121 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4123 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4124 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4125 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4127 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4128 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4129 one case where this was not true.
4131 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4132 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4133 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4134 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4137 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4138 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4139 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4140 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4141 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4142 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4143 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4144 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4145 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4148 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4149 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4150 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4151 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4153 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4154 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4156 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4157 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4158 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4160 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4162 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4164 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4166 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4167 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4168 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4169 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4171 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4172 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4174 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4175 be meaningful with "accept".
4177 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4178 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4180 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4181 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4182 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4184 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4185 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4186 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4187 there is data to show.
4188 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4190 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4191 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4192 as well as the number of messages.
4194 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4195 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4196 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4198 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4199 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4200 have a flag are now skipped.
4202 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4203 Added the -emptyok flag.
4205 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4206 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4208 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4209 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4210 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4212 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4215 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4216 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4218 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4220 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4221 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4223 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4225 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4226 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4227 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4228 contravention of the specifications.
4230 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4231 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4232 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4234 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4235 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4236 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4238 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4240 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4241 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4242 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4243 some point in the past.
4245 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4246 transport during callout processing was broken.
4248 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4249 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4251 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4252 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4254 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4255 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4257 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4263 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4264 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4266 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4267 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4268 there is data to show.
4269 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4271 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4272 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4274 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4275 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4277 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4278 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4280 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4281 submissions from trusted users.
4283 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4284 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4286 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4287 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4288 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4289 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4290 there is now a framework to start from.
4292 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4293 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4294 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4296 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4298 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4300 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4302 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4303 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4304 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4306 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4309 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4310 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4311 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4313 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4314 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4315 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4318 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4319 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4320 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4321 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4322 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4324 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4325 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4327 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4329 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4330 operations in malware.c.
4332 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4335 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4336 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4337 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4340 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4341 statements to "add_header".
4343 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4344 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4346 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4347 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4350 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4354 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4355 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4356 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4359 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4360 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4362 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4363 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4365 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4366 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4367 any possible encoding problems.
4369 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4370 but not after initializing Perl.
4372 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4373 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4374 apparently, which is not desirable.
4376 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4379 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4382 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4384 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4385 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4386 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4387 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4389 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4390 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4391 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4393 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4394 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4395 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4398 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4399 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4400 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4401 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4402 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4408 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4409 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4411 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4414 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4415 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4416 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4417 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4418 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4419 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4420 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4421 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4424 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4426 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4427 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4428 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4430 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4431 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4432 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4435 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4436 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4438 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4439 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4440 option (which defaults to 0600).
4442 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4444 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4445 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4446 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4447 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4448 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4449 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4450 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4452 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4458 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4459 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4460 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4461 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4462 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4463 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4466 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4467 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4469 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4471 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4472 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4473 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4474 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4475 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4478 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4479 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4481 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4482 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4483 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4484 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4485 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4487 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4488 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4489 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4490 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4492 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4493 be the same on different OS.
4495 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4498 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4499 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4501 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4504 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4505 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4506 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4507 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4508 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4509 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4512 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4513 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4514 when Exim was called.
4516 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4517 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4519 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4520 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4521 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4522 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4524 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4525 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4526 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4527 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4530 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4531 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4532 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4534 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4535 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4536 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4538 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4541 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4542 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4543 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4544 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4545 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4546 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4547 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4548 values from the SRV records were lost.
4550 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4551 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4552 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4554 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4555 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4556 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4558 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4559 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4560 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4561 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4562 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4563 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4564 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4565 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4566 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4567 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4569 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4570 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4571 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4573 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4574 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4576 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4577 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4578 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4579 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4582 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4583 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4584 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4586 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4587 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4588 PH/23 above applies.
4590 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4591 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4592 (for which there is an explicit test).
4594 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4596 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4597 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4598 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4599 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4600 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4602 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4603 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4604 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4605 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4607 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4608 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4609 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4611 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4613 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4615 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4616 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4617 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4619 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4620 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4621 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4622 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4623 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4625 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4626 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4627 the message gets confusing).
4629 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4630 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4631 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4632 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4634 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4635 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4636 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4637 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4640 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4641 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4642 the different processes.
4644 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4646 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4648 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4649 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4651 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4652 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4654 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4655 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4656 messages matching specified criteria.
4658 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4660 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4661 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4663 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4664 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4665 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4666 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4667 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4668 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4669 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4670 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4671 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4672 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4674 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4675 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4676 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4678 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4680 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4681 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4682 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4683 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4684 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4685 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4686 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4689 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4690 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4692 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4694 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4696 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4698 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4699 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4700 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4701 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4702 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4703 size of the count of files.
4705 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4707 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4710 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4711 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4712 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4713 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4715 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4716 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4717 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4719 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4720 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4721 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4722 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4723 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4725 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4726 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4728 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4729 will now be deprecated.
4731 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4733 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4734 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4735 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4737 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4738 with very large, slow to parse queues
4740 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4742 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4744 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4745 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4746 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4749 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4750 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4751 Sieve code now uses this.
4753 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4754 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4756 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4757 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4759 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4761 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4762 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4763 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4764 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4765 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4767 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4768 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4769 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4770 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4772 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4774 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4776 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4777 is preferred over IPv4.
4779 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4780 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4781 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4782 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4783 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4784 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4785 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4787 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4788 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4789 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4791 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4793 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4794 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4795 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4796 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4797 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4798 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4799 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4800 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4801 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4802 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4803 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4805 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4806 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4807 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4813 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4815 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4816 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4818 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4819 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4820 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4822 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4824 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4827 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4830 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4831 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4832 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4835 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4836 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4838 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4839 inside the third argument.
4841 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4842 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4845 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4846 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4848 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4849 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4851 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4853 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4854 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4857 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4859 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4860 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4861 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4862 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4863 identical. For example:
4865 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4867 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4868 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4869 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4871 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4872 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4873 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4874 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4876 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4877 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4878 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4881 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4883 o fixes some comments
4884 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4885 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4886 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4887 and documents the missing references header update
4891 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4892 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4895 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4896 Electronic Mail") by including:
4898 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4900 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4901 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4902 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4903 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4904 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4906 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4908 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4910 The auto-replied keyword:
4912 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4913 message by an automatic process,
4915 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4917 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4918 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4920 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4921 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4924 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4925 to the default Received: header definition.
4927 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4929 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4930 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4931 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4933 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4934 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4935 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4937 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4938 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4939 and treats the condition as false.
4941 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4943 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4944 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4945 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4946 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4947 not changing the active code.
4949 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4950 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4952 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4953 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4955 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4958 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4959 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4960 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4961 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4962 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4963 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4964 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4965 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4966 the text comparison.
4968 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4969 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4970 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4971 The same fix has been applied.
4977 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4978 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4981 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4982 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4984 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4986 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4987 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4988 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4989 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4990 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4992 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4993 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4994 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4995 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4998 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5006 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5007 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5009 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5011 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5013 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5014 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5015 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5017 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5018 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5019 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5021 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5022 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5025 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5026 ${stat: expansion item.
5028 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5029 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5031 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5032 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5035 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5037 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5040 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5041 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5043 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5045 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5046 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5047 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5048 the end of the subprocess.
5050 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5051 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5052 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5053 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5054 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5056 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5058 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5060 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5061 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5063 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5065 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5067 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5068 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5071 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5073 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5074 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5075 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5077 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5078 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5080 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5081 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5083 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5084 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5086 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5087 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5089 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5090 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5091 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5092 contributed by a Radius user.
5094 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5095 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5097 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5098 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5100 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5103 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5104 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5107 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5108 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5109 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5110 header lines when this was not necessary.
5112 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5114 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5115 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5116 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5119 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5122 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5123 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5124 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5125 return code was incorrect.
5127 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5129 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5131 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5133 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5135 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5136 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5137 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5138 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5139 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5142 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5144 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5145 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5146 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5147 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5148 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5149 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5150 which is clearly wrong.
5152 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5154 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5155 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5156 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5159 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5160 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5162 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5164 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5165 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5167 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5168 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5170 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5171 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5173 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5174 recipients, not senders.
5176 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5177 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5179 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5181 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5183 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5184 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5185 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5186 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5188 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5190 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5191 clock is set back in time.
5193 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5194 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5196 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5197 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5199 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5200 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5203 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5204 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5207 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5210 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5212 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5213 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5214 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5216 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5217 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5218 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5219 helo verification defer as a failure.
5221 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5222 actual error message.
5228 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5230 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5231 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5232 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5233 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5235 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5237 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5238 can still be requested.
5240 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5241 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5242 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5243 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5245 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5246 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5247 circumstances, but probably never did.
5249 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5250 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5251 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5254 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5256 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5257 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5259 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5261 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5263 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5264 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5265 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5266 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5267 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5268 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5270 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5271 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5272 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5273 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5274 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5275 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5277 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5278 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5280 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5281 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5283 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5284 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5286 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5288 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5290 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5292 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5294 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5296 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5298 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5300 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5301 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5302 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5304 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5305 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5306 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5307 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5309 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5310 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5311 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5313 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5314 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5315 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5316 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5318 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5319 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5322 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5323 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5324 should work with maildirs and everything.
5326 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5327 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5329 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5332 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5333 function for BDB 4.3.
5335 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5337 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5338 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5341 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5342 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5343 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5344 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5345 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5346 formatting function string_vformat().
5348 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5349 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5350 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5351 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5352 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5353 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5354 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5355 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5357 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5358 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5361 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5362 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5364 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5365 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5366 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5367 test. It is now used for both.
5369 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5370 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5371 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5372 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5373 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5374 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5376 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5377 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5378 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5381 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5382 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5383 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5385 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5386 experimental DomainKeys support:
5388 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5389 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5390 the control was given.
5392 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5394 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5396 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5398 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5399 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5400 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5403 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5404 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5405 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5406 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5407 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5408 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5411 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5412 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5413 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5414 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5415 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5416 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5418 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5419 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5420 do -d+all out of habit.
5422 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5423 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5426 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5427 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5428 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5429 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5430 record types that Exim uses.
5432 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5433 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5434 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5435 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5436 non-existent file that was broken.
5438 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5439 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5441 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5442 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5443 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5445 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5447 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5448 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5449 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5450 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5451 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5454 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5455 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5456 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5457 at a slight CPU cost.
5459 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5460 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5462 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5465 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5467 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5468 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5474 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5475 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5477 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5479 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5481 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5482 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5484 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5485 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5486 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5487 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5488 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5489 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5492 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5493 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5494 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5495 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5498 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5499 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5500 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5501 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5502 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5503 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5504 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5507 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5508 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5510 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5511 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5512 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5513 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5514 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5515 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5517 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5518 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5519 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5520 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5522 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5525 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5526 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5528 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5529 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5530 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5531 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5534 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5536 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5537 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5539 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5540 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5541 to what was transported.)
5543 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5545 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5546 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5547 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5548 spamd_address settings.
5550 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5551 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5552 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5553 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5554 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5556 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5558 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5559 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5560 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5561 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5562 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5564 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5565 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5567 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5568 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5569 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5570 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5571 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5572 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5573 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5576 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5577 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5578 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5579 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5580 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5581 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5582 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5585 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5587 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5588 driver and ACL definitions.
5590 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5591 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5593 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5594 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5595 understands it better than I do:
5597 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5598 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5600 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5601 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5602 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5603 => three warnings about OTP not working
5604 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5606 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5607 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5608 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5609 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5611 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5612 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5614 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5615 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5616 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5618 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5619 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5622 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5623 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5626 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5627 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5628 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5630 warn !verify = sender
5631 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5633 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5634 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5636 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5638 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5639 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5641 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5642 nomenclature these days.)
5644 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5645 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5647 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5648 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5649 . First host does not offer TLS;
5650 . First host accepts first address;
5651 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5652 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5653 . Second host accepts second address.
5654 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5655 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5658 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5659 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5660 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5661 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5662 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5664 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5665 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5667 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5668 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5670 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5671 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5672 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5674 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5675 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5678 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5680 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5681 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5682 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5683 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5684 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5685 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5686 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5688 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5689 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5690 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5691 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5692 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5694 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5695 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5698 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5699 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5700 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5701 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5702 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5703 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5705 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5707 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5708 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5709 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5710 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5711 printable escape sequences.
5713 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5714 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5717 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5718 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5721 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5722 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5723 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5724 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5725 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5727 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5728 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5729 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5731 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5733 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5734 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5737 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5738 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5739 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5740 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5741 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5742 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5743 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5744 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5745 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5748 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5749 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5750 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5751 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5755 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5756 ----------------------------------------
5758 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5759 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5760 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5761 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5762 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5763 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5766 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5767 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5768 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5769 historical information.
5775 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5777 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5778 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5780 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5781 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5784 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5785 filter fails to execute.
5787 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5788 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5789 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5790 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5791 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5793 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5795 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5796 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5797 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5798 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5800 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5801 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5802 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5803 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5804 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5806 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5808 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5810 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5811 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5812 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5813 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5815 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5816 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5817 sender verification.
5819 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5820 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5822 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5824 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5827 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5828 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5830 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5831 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5833 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5834 information about exactly what failed.
5836 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5838 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5839 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5840 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5842 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5843 It is now set to "smtps".
5845 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5846 ignore_target_hosts.
5848 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5849 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5850 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5851 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5854 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5855 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5856 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5858 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5859 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5860 wake it up if nothing else does.
5862 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5863 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5864 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5867 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5868 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5870 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5872 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5873 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5874 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5875 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5876 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5877 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5878 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5879 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5881 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5882 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5883 than one IP address.
5885 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5886 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5887 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5888 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5890 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5891 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5892 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5893 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5894 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5897 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5898 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5899 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5900 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5902 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5903 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5906 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5907 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5908 $sender_host_address.
5910 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5911 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5912 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5913 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5914 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5917 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5919 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5920 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5922 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5923 just the host names, not the priorities.
5925 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5926 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5927 controlled by a keyword.
5929 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5930 multiple records are returned.
5932 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5933 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5936 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5938 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5939 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5941 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5942 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5943 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5945 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5947 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5949 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5951 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5952 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5953 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5954 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5955 because the tests only now provoked it.
5957 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5958 (this can affect the format of dates).
5960 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5961 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5962 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5963 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5965 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5967 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5968 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5969 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5970 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5972 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5973 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5974 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5976 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5979 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5980 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5981 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5982 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5983 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5984 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5987 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5988 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5989 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5992 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5993 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5994 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5996 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5997 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5998 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5999 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6000 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6001 so I produce this patch..."
6003 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6004 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6007 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6008 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6009 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6010 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6013 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6015 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6016 long debug lines gets shown.
6018 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6019 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6021 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6023 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6024 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6025 of $primary_hostname.
6027 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6028 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6029 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6030 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6031 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6032 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6033 by change 4.50/55 above.
6035 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6036 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6037 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6038 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6039 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6040 running as the user.
6043 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6044 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6045 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6048 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6049 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6051 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6052 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6053 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6054 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6055 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6057 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6058 This has been fixed.
6060 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6061 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6062 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6063 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6066 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6068 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6069 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6070 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6071 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6073 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6074 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6076 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6077 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6078 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6080 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6081 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6082 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6085 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6086 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6087 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6089 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6090 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6091 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6092 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6094 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6095 during host lookups.
6097 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6098 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6100 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6102 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6103 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6104 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6105 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6106 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6109 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6110 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6112 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6113 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6114 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6116 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6118 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6119 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6120 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6121 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6122 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6123 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6126 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6127 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6128 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6129 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6130 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6132 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6135 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6137 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6138 "vacation" handling.
6140 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6141 OS variants using glibc.
6143 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6146 ----------------------------------------------------
6147 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6148 ----------------------------------------------------
6154 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6155 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6158 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6159 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6162 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6163 filter fails to execute.
6165 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6166 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6167 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6168 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6169 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6171 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6172 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6173 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6174 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6176 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6177 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6178 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6179 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6180 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6182 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6184 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6185 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6186 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6187 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6189 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6190 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6191 sender verification.
6193 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6194 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6196 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6197 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6199 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6200 ignore_target_hosts.
6202 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6203 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6204 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6205 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6208 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6209 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6210 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6212 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6213 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6214 wake it up if nothing else does.
6216 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6217 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6218 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6221 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6222 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6224 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6226 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6227 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6230 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6231 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6234 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6235 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6236 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6237 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6238 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6241 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6242 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6245 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6246 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6247 $sender_host_address.
6249 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6251 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6252 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6253 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6255 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6258 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6259 (this can affect the format of dates).
6261 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6262 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6263 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6264 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6266 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6267 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6268 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6270 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6271 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6272 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6273 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6275 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6276 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6277 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6279 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6282 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6283 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6284 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6285 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6286 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6287 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6290 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6291 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6292 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6293 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6296 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6297 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6298 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6299 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6300 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6301 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6302 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6304 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6305 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6306 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6307 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6308 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6309 running as the user.
6312 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6313 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6314 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6317 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6318 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6319 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6320 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6321 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6323 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6324 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6325 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6326 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6329 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6330 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6331 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6332 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6333 because the tests only now provoked it.
6339 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6340 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6341 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6342 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6343 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6344 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6345 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6347 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6348 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6351 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6353 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6355 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6356 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6359 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6360 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6361 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6362 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6363 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6365 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6366 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6368 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6370 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6372 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6375 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6376 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6378 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6379 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6380 affecting debugging statements).
6382 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6384 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6385 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6386 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6387 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6388 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6389 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6390 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6391 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6392 after the received time, and all would be well.
6394 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6395 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6396 condition in an expansion string.
6398 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6400 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6401 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6402 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6403 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6404 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6405 job under whatever limits there are.
6407 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6409 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6412 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6413 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6414 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6415 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6418 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6419 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6420 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6421 binary data in such strings.
6423 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6425 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6426 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6427 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6428 failure, which is pointless.
6430 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6432 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6434 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6435 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6436 Sender: header lines.
6438 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6439 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6440 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6442 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6443 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6444 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6445 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6446 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6449 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6450 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6451 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6452 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6453 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6455 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6456 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6457 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6460 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6461 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6463 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6464 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6466 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6468 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6470 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6472 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6475 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6477 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6479 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6480 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6481 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6482 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6484 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6485 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6491 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6492 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6493 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6495 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6496 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6497 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6498 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6499 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6500 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6502 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6503 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6504 verification failure".
6506 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6507 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6508 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6509 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6511 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6512 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6513 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6514 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6515 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6516 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6517 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6518 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6519 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6520 treated as a timeout.
6522 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6523 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6524 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6525 not set for Exim filters).
6527 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6528 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6529 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6531 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6533 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6534 try to make them clearer.
6536 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6537 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6539 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6541 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6543 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6544 only the Cygwin environment.
6546 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6547 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6548 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6549 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6550 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6552 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6553 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6554 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6555 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6556 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6557 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6558 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6560 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6561 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6563 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6565 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6566 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6567 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6569 To: susanne@some.where
6571 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6572 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6573 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6574 of addresses in From: header lines).
6576 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6577 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6578 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6580 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6581 treated as non-personal.
6583 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6584 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6586 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6588 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6590 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6591 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6592 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6594 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6595 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6597 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6598 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6599 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6600 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6601 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6602 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6604 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6605 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6606 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6607 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6608 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6609 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6610 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6611 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6613 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6615 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6616 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6618 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6619 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6620 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6622 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6623 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6625 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6626 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6627 rather than long int.
6629 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6631 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6637 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6638 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6639 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6640 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6641 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6642 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6648 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6649 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6651 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6652 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6653 socklen_t is defined.
6655 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6658 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6661 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6662 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6663 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6664 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6665 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6667 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6668 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6669 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6670 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6672 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6673 of flapping under certain conditions.
6675 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6676 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6677 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6679 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6681 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6683 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6684 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6685 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6686 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6688 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6689 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6690 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6691 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6692 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6693 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6694 preserved with the message after it was received.
6696 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6697 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6698 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6699 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6700 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6701 test suite worked just fine.
6703 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6704 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6705 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6707 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6708 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6711 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6712 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6713 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6714 does not fully solve it.
6716 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6717 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6718 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6719 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6720 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6722 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6723 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6724 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6726 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6727 string, for example:
6729 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6731 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6732 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6733 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6734 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6735 the routers could not see them.
6737 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6738 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6740 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6741 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6744 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6745 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6746 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6747 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6748 that needed quoting.
6750 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6751 was not being matched caselessly.
6753 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6756 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6757 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6758 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6759 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6760 when use_sender is false.
6762 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6764 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6766 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6768 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6769 the configuration file.
6771 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6772 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6774 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6776 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6777 bytes in the message body.
6779 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6780 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6783 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6785 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6787 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6788 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6789 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6790 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6797 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6798 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6800 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6801 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6802 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6803 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6804 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6806 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6807 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6809 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6810 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6811 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6813 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6814 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6815 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6817 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6820 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6821 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6822 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6823 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6824 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6825 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6826 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6832 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6833 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6834 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6835 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6836 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6837 default (and expected) setting.
6839 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6840 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6841 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6842 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6844 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6845 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6847 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6850 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6851 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6852 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6853 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6854 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6855 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6857 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6858 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6859 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6861 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6862 part (NOT match_host).
6864 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6866 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6867 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6868 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6869 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6870 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6871 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6872 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6873 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6874 the same named file.
6876 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6877 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6880 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6881 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6882 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6883 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6886 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6887 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6888 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6890 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6892 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6894 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6896 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6897 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6899 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6900 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6901 before starting the TLS session.
6903 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6905 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6906 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6908 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6909 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6910 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6911 colon in the middle).
6917 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6918 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6919 multiple configurations are in use.
6921 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6922 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6923 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6924 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6925 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6926 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6928 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6929 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6931 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6932 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6933 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6935 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6936 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6939 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6940 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6942 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6944 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6945 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6947 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6955 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6956 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6957 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6958 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6959 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6961 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6964 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6965 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6966 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6967 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6968 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6969 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6971 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6972 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6973 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6974 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6975 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6976 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6977 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6980 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6981 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6982 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6983 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6984 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6986 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6988 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6989 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6990 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6992 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6994 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6995 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6996 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6999 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7000 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7002 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7003 Three changes have been made:
7005 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7006 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7007 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7008 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7009 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7011 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7014 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7015 the modified behaviour.
7021 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7024 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7025 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7027 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7028 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7029 try to track down a specific problem.
7031 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7032 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7033 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7035 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7038 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7039 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7040 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7041 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7042 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7043 some earlier ones do not.
7045 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7047 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7048 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7049 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7050 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7051 address literals are enabled, of course).
7053 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7055 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7056 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7057 by a command such as
7061 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7063 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7065 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7066 remained set. It is now erased.
7068 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7069 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7071 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7072 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7073 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7074 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7075 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7076 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7077 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7078 appropriate error code.
7080 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7081 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7082 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7083 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7084 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7085 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7087 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7088 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7089 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7091 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7092 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7093 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7094 terminate the header.
7096 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7097 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7098 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7100 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7101 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7102 (4.30/29). In particular:
7104 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7107 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7108 to write a maildirsize file.
7110 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7111 the transport, the new value overrides.
7113 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7116 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7117 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7118 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7121 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7122 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7123 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7126 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7127 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7128 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7130 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7131 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7134 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7135 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7136 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7138 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7140 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7142 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7144 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7145 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7148 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7149 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7150 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7151 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7152 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7153 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7154 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7157 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7158 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7159 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7160 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7161 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7164 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7165 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7166 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7167 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7168 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7169 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7170 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7171 cached value only when the same options are set.
7173 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7175 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7176 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7177 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7178 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7179 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7181 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7182 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7183 it is clearly obsolete.
7185 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7188 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7189 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7190 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7193 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7194 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7195 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7196 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7197 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7199 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7200 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7201 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7202 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7204 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7206 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7208 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7209 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7212 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7213 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7214 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7215 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7216 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7217 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7220 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7221 with the -f command-line option.
7223 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7224 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7225 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7226 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7227 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7228 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7230 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7231 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7234 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7235 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7236 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7237 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7238 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7239 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7240 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7241 buffer is too small.
7243 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7244 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7246 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7247 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7248 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7249 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7250 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7251 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7252 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7253 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7254 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7256 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7257 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7258 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7260 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7261 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7264 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7265 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7266 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7267 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7268 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7270 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7271 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7272 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7273 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7276 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7278 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7280 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7281 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7283 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7284 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7285 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7287 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7288 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7289 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7290 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7291 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7293 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7294 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7295 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7296 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7297 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7298 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7299 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7301 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7302 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7303 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7304 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7305 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7306 the test of how many are available.
7308 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7309 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7310 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7311 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7312 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7313 new message is started.
7315 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7316 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7318 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7319 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7321 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7322 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7323 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7326 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7327 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7328 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7329 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7330 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7331 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7332 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7334 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7335 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7336 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7337 interpreted as octal.
7339 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7342 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7343 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7344 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7345 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7346 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7347 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7349 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7350 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7351 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7352 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7354 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7355 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7356 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7357 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7359 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7360 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7363 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7364 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7366 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7368 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7369 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7370 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7371 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7373 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7374 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7375 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7376 supplied", which is not helpful.
7378 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7379 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7380 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7382 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7383 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7384 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7385 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7386 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7387 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7388 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7389 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7391 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7392 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7393 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7394 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7395 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7397 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7398 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7399 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7400 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7401 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7402 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7404 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7405 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7406 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7408 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7410 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7411 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7412 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7415 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7417 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7418 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7419 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7420 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7421 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7422 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7423 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7424 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7426 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7427 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7428 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7429 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7430 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7432 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7435 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7436 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7437 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7438 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7439 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7440 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7441 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7442 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7443 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7449 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7450 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7451 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7453 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7456 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7457 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7458 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7460 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7461 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7462 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7463 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7464 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7465 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7467 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7468 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7469 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7470 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7471 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7472 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7473 the Exim test suite.
7475 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7476 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7477 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7478 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7480 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7481 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7482 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7483 specify it in this variable.
7485 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7486 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7487 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7488 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7490 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7491 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7492 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7493 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7495 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7496 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7497 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7498 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7499 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7501 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7503 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7506 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7507 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7508 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7509 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7510 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7512 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7513 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7515 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7516 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7517 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7518 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7519 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7521 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7522 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7524 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7525 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7526 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7528 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7529 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7531 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7532 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7534 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7535 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7536 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7538 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7539 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7541 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7542 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7543 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7544 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7546 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7548 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7549 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7550 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7551 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7553 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7555 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7556 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7558 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7560 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7561 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7562 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7563 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7564 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7565 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7567 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7569 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7570 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7573 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7575 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7576 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7578 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7579 550 Sender verify failed
7581 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7582 the final line of the response.
7584 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7585 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7586 all other user lookups.
7588 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7591 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7592 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7593 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7594 result into an int without checking.
7596 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7597 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7598 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7600 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7601 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7602 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7603 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7605 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7608 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7609 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7611 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7612 to the empty sender.
7614 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7615 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7616 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7617 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7618 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7619 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7620 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7623 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7624 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7625 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7626 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7629 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7630 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7632 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7635 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7636 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7638 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7640 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7641 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7644 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7645 as soon as it is encountered.
7647 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7649 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7652 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7653 recognizes a tab character.
7655 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7656 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7657 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7658 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7660 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7662 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7665 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7667 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7669 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7670 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7673 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7674 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7675 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7676 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7677 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7679 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7680 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7682 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7683 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7684 list (.included file names were always shown).
7686 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7687 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7688 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7691 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7692 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7694 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7696 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7698 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7700 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7701 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7702 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7703 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7704 failures to open the logs.
7706 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7707 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7708 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7709 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7710 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7711 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7712 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7718 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7719 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7720 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7723 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7724 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7725 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7727 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7728 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7729 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7731 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7732 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7733 causing some misleading effects.
7735 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7736 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7737 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7739 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7740 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7741 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7742 queue-runner function directly.
7748 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7751 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7752 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7753 was always written to the default place.
7755 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7756 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7757 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7759 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7761 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7763 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7764 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7765 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7767 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7768 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7771 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7772 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7773 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7775 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7776 command line option is disabled.
7778 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7779 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7781 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7783 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7785 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7786 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7788 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7790 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7791 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7792 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7793 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7794 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7795 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7797 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7798 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7801 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7802 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7804 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7805 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7807 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7808 received was valid base64.
7810 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7811 name of the variable that was being set.
7813 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7815 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7816 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7817 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7818 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7819 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7820 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7822 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7824 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7825 nor realm was specified.
7827 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7828 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7829 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7830 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7832 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7833 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7834 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7836 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7837 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7838 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7840 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7841 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7842 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7843 some systems use these upper case variants.
7845 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7846 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7847 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7848 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7850 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7852 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7853 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7855 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7856 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7859 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7861 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7862 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7863 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7864 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7866 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7869 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7870 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7871 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7873 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7874 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7876 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7877 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7878 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7879 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7881 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7882 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7883 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7885 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7887 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7888 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7889 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7890 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7893 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7894 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7895 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7897 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7899 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7900 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7902 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7903 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7905 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7906 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7907 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7908 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7909 when emails are that large.
7916 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7917 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7919 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7920 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7921 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7923 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7924 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7925 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7927 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7928 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7929 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7930 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7931 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7933 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7934 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7935 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7936 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7937 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7940 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7941 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7942 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7943 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7944 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7945 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7946 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7947 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7948 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7949 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7950 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7951 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7952 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7953 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7955 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7956 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7959 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7960 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7961 error should be diagnosed.
7963 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7964 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7965 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7966 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7967 appeared instead of "NULL".
7969 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7970 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7971 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7972 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7973 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7974 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7977 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7978 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7979 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7985 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7986 or receiver verification errors.
7988 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7991 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7992 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7993 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7994 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7996 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7997 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7998 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7999 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8000 shouldn't happen again.
8002 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8003 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8004 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8006 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8007 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8009 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8011 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8012 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8014 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8015 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8018 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8019 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8020 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8022 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8023 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8024 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8025 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8027 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8028 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8029 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8030 to define what should happen).
8032 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8033 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8034 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8036 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8038 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8040 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8041 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8043 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8044 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8045 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8046 structure in all cases.
8048 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8049 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8050 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8051 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8053 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8054 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8057 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8058 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8060 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8061 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8063 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8064 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8065 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8067 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8068 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8069 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8071 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8072 the book and for uniformity.
8074 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8076 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8077 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8078 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8079 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8080 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8081 non-existent command as the problem.
8083 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8084 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8085 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8087 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8089 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8090 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8091 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8093 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8094 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8095 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8096 timestamps using strftime().
8098 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8099 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8101 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8102 transport-time rewrites.
8104 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8105 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8106 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8107 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8109 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8110 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8112 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8113 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8114 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8115 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8118 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8119 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8120 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8121 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8122 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8123 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8124 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8126 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8127 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8128 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8129 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8130 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8132 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8133 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8134 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8135 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8136 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8137 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8138 remaining text gets split now.
8140 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8141 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8142 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8143 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8145 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8146 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8147 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8148 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8151 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8152 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8153 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8154 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8155 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8156 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8157 passed through if needed.
8159 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8160 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8161 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8162 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8163 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8164 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8166 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8167 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8168 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8169 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8170 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8172 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8173 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8174 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8175 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8176 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8178 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8179 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8182 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8183 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8184 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8185 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8186 mayhem of various kinds.
8188 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8189 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8190 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8191 the right test for positive values.
8193 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8194 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8195 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8196 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8197 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8198 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8199 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8200 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8201 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8202 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8205 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8208 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8209 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8212 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8213 the existing equality matching.
8215 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8216 dealing with inode numbers.
8218 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8219 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8220 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8222 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8223 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8224 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8225 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8228 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8229 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8230 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8231 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8232 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8233 relay addresses has also been removed.
8235 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8237 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8238 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8239 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8241 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8242 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8243 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8244 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8245 processing applies to CR:
8247 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8248 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8250 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8251 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8252 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8253 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8255 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8256 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8257 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8259 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8260 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8261 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8262 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8263 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8264 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8267 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8270 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8271 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8272 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8273 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8276 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8278 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8280 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8282 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8283 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8284 not considered personal.
8286 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8288 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8290 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8292 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8293 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8294 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8295 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8296 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8297 header lines, and spool format errors.
8299 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8300 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8301 for more flexibility.
8303 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8304 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8305 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8307 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8310 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8311 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8312 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8313 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8314 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8315 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8316 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8317 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8318 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8320 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8321 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8322 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8323 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8324 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8325 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8326 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8328 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8329 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8330 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8332 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8333 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8334 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8335 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8336 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8337 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8338 instead of killing the process with assert().
8340 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8341 than Unicode encoding.
8343 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8344 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8345 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8346 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8348 77. Added process_log_path.
8350 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8351 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8353 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8354 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8356 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8357 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8358 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8360 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8361 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8362 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8363 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8364 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8367 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8368 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8371 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8372 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8373 they will be used during message reception.
8379 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.