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 Use fewer forks & execs for sending many messages to a single host.
9 By passing back more info from the transport to the delivery process,
10 we can loop there. A two-phase queue run will benefit, particularly for
11 mailinglist and smarthost cases.
13 JH/02 Add transaction support for hintsdbs. The providers supported are tdb and
14 sqlite. Transactions are used for the wait-transport and retry DBs.
15 They imply locking internal to the DB. We no longer need a separate
16 lockfile, can keep the DB handle open for extended periods, yet
17 potentially benefit from concurrency on non-conflicting record uses.
19 JH/03 With dkim_verify_minimal, avoid calling the DKIM ACL after the first
22 JH/04 Remove the docs and support scripts dealing with conversion of Exim
23 version 3 installations.
25 JH/05 Fix hintsdb support for dbmjz when compiled using sqlite3. Previously
26 the backend support assumed keys would be simple C strings, but dbmjz
27 uses keys with embedded NUL bytes. The builtin hintsdb use is unaffected,
28 but installations using dbmjz will need to rebuild those DBs.
30 JH/06 Bug 1141: When operating a continued-connection transport, verify that
31 the interface option, if specified, evaluates to match the connection.
32 Previously, a queued message for the same host was sent without checking.
34 JH/07 Bug 3106: Fix coding in SPA authenticator. A macro argument was not
35 properly parenthesized, resulting in a logic error. While the simple
36 fix was provided by Andrew Aitchison, the over-large code block resulting
37 from this macro made me want to replace it with a real function so more
38 extensive rework becamse needed.
40 JH/08 The output of "exim -bV" now includes lookup types built as dynamic-load
43 JH/09 Not a change, but worthy of note: There is no test coverage of the
44 heimdall-gssapi authenticator driver. It does build, though with (on at
45 least one platform) library version conflicts with the gsasl auth
46 driver). Confidence in its operation is lacking.
48 JH/10 Bug 3108: On platforms not providing strchrnul() [OpenBSD] supply a proper
49 prototype (as well as implementaton). Previously, a return type "int"
50 was assumed, resulting in type-conversion bugs when int and pointer had
51 different size. This resulted in crashes while processing DKIM signatures
52 of received messages. Identification and fix from Qualys Security.
57 JH/01 Support list of dkim results in the dkim_status ACL condition, making
58 it more usable in the data ACL.
60 JH/02 Bug 3040: Handle error on close of the spool data file during reception.
61 Previously This was only logged, on the assumption that errors would be
62 seen for a previous fflush(). However, a fuse filesystem has been
63 reported as showing this an error for the fclose(). The spool is now in
64 an uncertain state, and we have logged and responded acceptance. Change
65 this to respond with a temp-reject, wipe spoolfiles, and log the error
68 JH/03 Bug 3030: Fix handling of DNS servfail respons for DANE TLSA. When hit
69 during a recipient verify callout, a QUIT command was attempted on the
70 now-closed callout channel, causing a paniclog entry.
72 JH/04 Bug 3039: Fix handling of of an empty log_reject_target, with
73 a connection_reject log_selector, under tls_on_connect. Previously
74 with this combination, when the connect ACL rejected, a spurious
75 paniclog entry was made.
77 JH/05 Fix TLS resumption for TLS-on-connect. This was broken by the advent
78 of loadbalancer-detection for resumption, in 4.96 - which tries to
79 use the EHLO response. SMTPS does not have one at the time it is starting
80 TLS. Change the default for the smtp transport host_name_extract option
81 to be a static string, for TLS-on-connect cases; meaning that resumption
82 will always be attempted (unless deliberately overriden).
84 JH/06 Bug 3054: Fix dnsdb lookup for a TXT record with multiple chunks, with a
85 chunk-separator specification. This was broken by hardening introduced
88 JH/07 Bug 3050: Fix -bp for old message_id format spoolfiles. Previously it
89 included the -H with the id; this also messed up exiqgrep.
91 JH/08 Bug 3056: Tighten up parsing of DKIM DNS records. Previously, whitespace
92 was not properly skipped and empty elements would cause mis-parsing.
93 Tighten parsing of DKIM header records. Previously, all but lowercase
94 alpha chars would be ignored in potential tag names.
96 JH/09 Bug 3057: Add heuristic for spotting mistyped IPv6 addresses in lists
97 being searched. Previously we only had one for IPv4 addresses. Per the
98 documentation, the error results by default in a no-match result for the
99 list. It is logged if the unknown_in_list log_selector is used.
101 JH/10 Bug 3058: Ensure that a failing expansion in a router "set" option defers
102 the routing operation. Previously it would silently stop routing the
105 JH/11 Bug 3046: Fix queue-runs. Previously, the arrivel of a notification or
106 info-request event close in time to a scheduled run timer could result in
107 the latter being missed, and no further queue scheduled runs being
108 initiated. This ouwld be more likely on high-load systems.
110 JH/12 Refuse to accept a line "dot, LF" as end-of-DATA unless operating in
111 LF-only mode (as detected from the first header line). Previously we did
112 accept that in (normal) CRLF mode; this has been raised as a possible
113 attack scenario (under the name "smtp smuggling").
115 JH/13 Add an fdatasync call for the received message data file in spool, before
116 loggging reception and sending the SMTP ack. Previously we only flushed
117 the stdio buffer so there was still the possibility of a disk error.
119 JH/14 Bug 3061: Avoid a split log line when trying to rewrite a malformed
120 address. Previously, for the last address in a header line (commonly
121 there is only one) the terminating newline was part of the logged
124 JH/15 Bug 3061: Ensure a log line is written for a malformed address in a
125 header, when parsing for address-qualification. Previously one was only
126 written if there were rewrite rules.
128 JH/16 Two-phase queue runs are now reported in the daemon startup log line and
131 JH/17 Bug 3064: Fix combination of "-q<period> -R <recipients>". Introduction of
132 the multiple-queue-runners facility for 4.97 broke this, giving only a
133 one-time run of the queue.
135 JH/18 Bug 3068: Log a warning for use of deprecated syntax in query-style
138 JH/19 Fix TLS startup. When the last expansion done before the initiation of a
139 TLS session resulted in a forced-fail, a misleading error was logged for
140 the expansino of tls_certificates. This would affect the common case of
141 that option being set (main-section options) but not having any variable
142 parts. It could also potentially affect tls_privatekeys. The underlyding
143 coding errors go back to 4.90 but were only exposed in 4.97.
145 JH/20 Bug 3047: A recent (somewhere between 10.34 and 10.42) version of the
146 pcre2 library starting allocating 20kB rather than 112 bytes per match
147 call, which broke the 2GB total limitation on Exim's memory management
148 when a user had over 104207 messages stored and the appendfile
149 maildir_quota_directory_regex option is in use. Release the allocated
150 memory every thosand files to avoid this.
151 The same issue arises with the ACL regex condition, which is applied
152 to every line of a received message.
154 JH/21 Bug 3059: Fix crash in smtp transport. When running for a message for
155 which all recipients had been handled (itself an issue) a null-pointer
156 deref was done on trying to write a retry record. Fix that by counting
157 the outstanding recipients before trying to transmit the message.
158 The situation arose for a second MX try within a transport run, when the
159 first had perm-rejected a recipient (the only one for the connection, in
160 the case seen) during pipelining, and then closed the TCP connection.
161 The transport classified that as an I/O error, leaving the message
162 outstanding but having marked up the recipient as dealt-with. It then
163 tried another MX because of the I/O error. Fix this by converting the
164 message-level status to ok if there was a close but all recipients were
165 dealt with. Thanks to Wolfgand Breyha for debug runs.
167 JH/22 The ESMTP_LIMITS facility (RFC 9422) is promoted from experimental status
168 and is now controlled by the build-time option DISABLE_ESMTP_LIMITS.
170 JH/23 Bug 3066: Avoid leaking lookup database credentials to log.
172 JH/24 Bug 3081: Fix a delivery process crash. When the router "errors_to"
173 option specified a fixed address, later rewriting on that address would
174 trip on the configuration data being readonly. Instead of modifying
175 in-place, copy data. Found and fixed by Peter Benie.
177 JH/25 Bug 3079: Fix crash in dbmnz. When a key was present for zero-length
178 data a null pointer was followed. Find and testcase by Sebastian Bugge.
180 JH/26 Fix encoding for an AUTH parameter on a MAIL FROM command. Previously
181 decimal 127 chars were not encoded, and lowercase hex was used for
182 encoded values. Outstanding since at least 1999.
184 JH/27 Fix crash in logging. When a message with a large number of recipients
185 had been received, and logging of recipients is enabled, the buffer used
186 for logging could reach limit. A read using a null pointer would then
187 be done, resulting in a crash of the receiving process before an SMTP
188 ACK for the message was returned to the sending system. Duplicate
189 messages were created as a result.
190 Find and debug help by Mateusz Krawczyk
192 JH/28 Bug 3086: Fix exinext for ipv6. Change the format of keys in the retry
193 DB, wrapping transport record bare-ip "host names" and ipv6
194 "host addresses" in square-brackets. This makes the parsing that
195 exinext does more reliable.
197 JH/29 Bug 3087: Fix SRS encode. A zero-length quoted element in the local-part
200 JH/30 Bug 3029: Avoid feeding Resent-From: to DMARC.
202 JH/31 Bug 3027: For -bh / -bhc tests change to using the compressed form of
203 ipv6 addresses for the sender. Previously the uncompressed form was used,
204 and if used in textual form this would result in behavior difference
207 JH/32 Bug 3096: MAIL before HELO/EHLO, where required by hosts_require_helo, is
208 now classed as a protocol error and subject to smtp_max_synprot_errors.
210 JH/33 Bug 2994: A subdir dsearch lookup should permit a directory name that starts
211 ".." and has following characters.
213 JH/34 Fix delivery ordering for 2-phase queue run combined with
216 JH/35 Bug 3099: fix parsing of MIME filename= split over multiple paramemters.
217 Previously the $mime_filename variable would have an incorrect value.
218 While in the code, extend coverage to name= which previously was only
219 supported for single parameters, despite also filling in $mime_filename.
225 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
226 SMTP connection" log lines.
228 JH/02 Option default value updates:
229 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
230 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
232 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
234 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
235 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
236 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
238 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
239 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
240 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
243 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
244 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
246 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
247 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
248 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
250 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
251 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
252 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
253 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
254 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
256 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
257 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
260 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
261 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
263 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
264 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
265 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
267 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
268 API changes in libopendmarc.
270 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
271 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
272 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
274 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
275 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
277 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
278 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
279 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
282 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
283 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
286 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
287 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
288 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
289 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
290 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
291 is strictly an incompatible change.
292 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
293 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
295 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
296 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
297 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
298 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
301 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
302 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
303 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
304 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
306 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
307 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
308 itself returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
309 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
310 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
311 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
314 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
315 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
318 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
319 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
320 to not checking that list for these lookups.
322 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
325 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
326 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
327 was done, killing the process.
329 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
330 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
331 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
334 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
335 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
336 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
337 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
339 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
340 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
342 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
345 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
346 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
347 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
348 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
349 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
350 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
351 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
353 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
354 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
355 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
356 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
357 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
358 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
359 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
360 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
361 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
362 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
364 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
365 usable until about year 3700.
366 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
367 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
368 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
369 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
370 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
371 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
372 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
373 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
374 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
375 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
376 wait- hints databases.
378 JH/30 Bug 3006: Fix handling of JSON strings having embedded commas. Previously
379 we treated them as item separators when parsing for a list item, but they
380 need to be protected by the doublequotes. While there, add handling for
383 JH/31 Bug 2998: Fix ${utf8clean:...} to disallow UTF-16 surrogate codepoints.
384 Found and fixed by Jasen Betts. No testcase for this as my usual text
385 editor insists on emitting only valid UTF-8.
387 JH/32 Fix "tls_dhparam = none" under GnuTLS. At least with 3.7.9 this gave
388 a null-indirection SIGSEGV for the receive process.
390 JH/33 Fix free for live variable $value created by a ${run ...} expansion during
391 -bh use. Internal checking would spot this and take a panic.
393 JH/34 Bug 3013: Fix use of $recipients within arguments for ${run...}.
394 In 4.96 this would expand to empty.
396 JH/35 Bug 3014: GnuTLS: fix expiry date for an auto-generated server
397 certificate. Find and fix by Andreas Metzler.
399 JH/36 Add ARC info to DMARC hostory records.
401 JH/37 Bug 3016: Avoid sending DSN when message was accepted under fakereject
402 or fakedefer. Previously the sender could discover that the message
403 had in fact been accepted.
405 JH/38 Taint-track intermediate values from the peer in multi-stage authentation
406 sequences. Previously the input was not noted as being tainted; notably
407 this resulted in behaviour of LOGIN vs. PLAIN being inconsistent under
408 bad coding of authenticators.
410 JH/39 Bug 3023: Fix crash induced by some combinations of zero-length strings
411 and ${tr...}. Found and diagnosed by Heiko Schlichting.
413 JH/40 Bug 2999: Fix a possible OOB write in the external authenticator, which
414 could be triggered by externally-supplied input. Found by Trend Micro.
417 JH/41 Bug 3000: Fix a possible OOB write in the SPA authenticator, which could
418 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
421 JH/42 Bug 3001: Fix a possible OOB read in the SPA authenticator, which could
422 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
425 JH/43 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
426 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
427 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
429 JH/44 Bug 3033: Harden dnsdb lookups against crafted DNS responses.
432 HS/02 Fix string_is_ip_address() CVE-2023-42117 (Bug 3031)
438 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
439 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
440 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
443 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
444 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
446 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
447 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
448 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
449 not be modified by local-scan code.
451 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
452 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
454 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
455 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
458 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
459 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
461 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
462 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
465 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
466 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
467 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
469 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
470 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
471 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
473 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
474 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
475 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
476 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
477 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
478 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
479 Assorted crashes happen.
481 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
482 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
483 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
486 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
487 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
488 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
489 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
491 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
492 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
493 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
496 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
498 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
499 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
502 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
503 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
504 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
506 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
507 result of expansion operators and items.
509 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
510 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
511 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
512 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
514 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
516 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
517 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
518 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
519 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
522 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
523 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
525 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
526 Previously only the domain part was returned.
528 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
529 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
530 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
531 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
533 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
534 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
535 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
536 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
538 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
539 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
540 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
541 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
542 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
545 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
546 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
547 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
549 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
550 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
551 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
552 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
554 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
555 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
556 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
557 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
559 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
560 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
561 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
562 Previously only the server IP was used.
564 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
565 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
566 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
567 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
569 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
570 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
571 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
573 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
574 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
575 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
578 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
579 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
581 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
582 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
588 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
589 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
590 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
592 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
593 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
594 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
595 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
597 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
598 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
599 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
600 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
601 so could be handling tainted values.
603 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
604 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
605 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
607 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
608 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
609 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
612 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
613 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
614 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
615 to align better with RFC 6125.
617 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
618 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
619 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
620 by adding a release action in that path.
622 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
623 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
624 dynamically-created buffers.
626 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
627 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
628 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
629 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
631 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
632 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
633 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
634 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
636 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
637 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
638 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
640 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
641 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
642 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
643 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
645 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
646 excluded, not matching the documentation.
648 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
649 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
651 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
652 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
653 this was a coding error.
655 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
656 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
657 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
658 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
659 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
660 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
661 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
663 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
664 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
665 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
666 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
668 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
669 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
670 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
671 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
672 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
674 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
675 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
678 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
679 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
680 domain-parking registrar.
682 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
683 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
684 after removing the newline.
686 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
687 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
688 option set, which was previously used.
690 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
693 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
694 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
695 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
696 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
698 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
699 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
700 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
701 exim.dev.20160529.3).
703 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
704 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
705 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
707 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
708 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
709 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
712 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
713 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
714 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
716 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
717 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
718 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
719 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
722 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
723 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
724 there, handle PRX and TFO.
726 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
727 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
728 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
729 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
730 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
732 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
733 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
734 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
735 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
738 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
739 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
741 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
744 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
745 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
746 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
747 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
748 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
750 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
752 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
753 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
754 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
755 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
756 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
757 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
759 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
760 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
762 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
763 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
764 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
766 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
767 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
770 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
771 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
772 of a new variable: $auth4.
774 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
775 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
776 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
777 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
778 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
780 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
781 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
782 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
783 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
785 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
786 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
787 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
789 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
790 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
791 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
792 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
795 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
796 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the store could not be freed.
797 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
800 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
801 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
802 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
803 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
805 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
806 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
808 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
809 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
810 looked as if if might be one.
812 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
813 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
814 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
815 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
816 messages can show the proxy information.
818 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
819 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
820 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
821 "queue_time_exclusive".
823 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
824 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
825 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
827 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
828 making it unusable in complex expressions.
830 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
831 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
834 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
836 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
838 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
840 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
841 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
842 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
843 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
845 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
846 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
848 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
849 better. Reported by Qualys.
851 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
852 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
855 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
857 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
860 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
862 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
863 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
864 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
865 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
867 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
868 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
870 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
871 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
872 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
873 mode until after various protocol state checks.
874 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
876 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
878 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
879 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
881 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
884 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
885 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
886 executed child processes (if any).
888 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
891 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
892 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
893 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
894 been reported on other platforms.
896 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
898 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
899 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
900 Not supported on Solaris 10.
902 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
903 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
904 since fakereject was originally introduced.
906 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
907 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
909 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
910 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
911 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
914 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
915 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
916 which only permit IP addresses.
922 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
923 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
924 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
926 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
928 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
929 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
932 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
933 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
934 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
936 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
938 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
940 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
941 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
942 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
944 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
945 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
946 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
948 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
949 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
951 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
952 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
955 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
956 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
957 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
958 should both provide the file and set the option.
959 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
961 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
962 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
964 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
965 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
966 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
967 Authentication-Results: header.
969 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
970 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
971 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
972 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
974 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
975 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
976 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
977 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
978 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
979 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
980 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
982 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
983 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
984 copies while it is still usable.
986 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
987 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
988 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
990 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
991 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
993 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
994 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
995 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
996 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
998 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
999 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
1000 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
1003 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
1004 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
1005 - the pipe transport command
1006 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
1007 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
1009 - paths used by single-key lookups
1010 Previously this was permitted.
1012 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
1013 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
1014 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
1015 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
1017 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
1018 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
1019 support larger malloc requests.
1021 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
1022 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
1023 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
1024 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
1026 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
1027 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
1028 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
1029 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
1032 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
1033 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
1034 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
1035 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
1036 data being length-specified.
1038 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
1039 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
1040 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
1041 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
1043 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
1044 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
1045 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
1046 not being properly tracked.
1048 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
1049 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
1050 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
1051 minute could be seen.
1053 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
1054 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
1055 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
1057 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
1058 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
1060 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
1061 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
1064 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
1066 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
1067 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
1069 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
1070 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
1071 filesystem as sufficient validation.
1073 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
1074 argument is supplied.
1076 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
1077 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
1078 access under Exim's current working directory.
1080 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
1081 Previously no event was raised.
1083 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
1084 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
1085 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
1088 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
1089 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
1090 the size of the signature hash.
1092 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
1093 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
1095 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
1096 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
1097 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
1098 dropped between messages.
1100 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
1101 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
1102 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
1103 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
1105 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
1106 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
1107 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
1108 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
1109 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
1110 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
1111 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
1112 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
1113 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
1115 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
1116 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
1117 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
1119 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
1120 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
1127 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
1128 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
1130 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
1131 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
1132 its own TCP segment.
1134 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
1137 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
1139 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
1141 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
1142 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
1144 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
1145 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
1146 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
1147 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
1148 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
1149 suitably configured).
1151 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
1152 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
1154 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
1155 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
1158 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
1159 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
1161 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
1162 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
1163 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
1164 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
1167 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
1168 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
1169 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
1171 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
1174 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
1175 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
1177 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
1178 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
1179 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
1180 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
1183 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1184 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
1185 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
1186 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
1187 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
1189 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1190 shared (NFS) environment.
1192 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
1193 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
1196 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
1197 on some platforms for bit 31.
1199 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
1200 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
1201 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
1202 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
1203 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
1204 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
1205 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
1206 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
1208 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
1210 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
1211 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
1213 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
1214 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
1217 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
1218 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
1221 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
1222 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
1223 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
1226 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
1227 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
1228 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
1230 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
1231 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
1232 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
1233 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
1234 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
1236 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
1239 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
1240 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
1241 be requested on all coneections.
1243 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
1244 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
1246 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
1248 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
1249 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
1250 one for these; the option was ignored.
1252 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
1253 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
1254 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
1255 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
1257 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
1258 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
1259 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
1262 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
1263 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
1264 error ignored was made.
1266 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
1268 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
1269 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
1270 values, to catch one form of exploit.
1272 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
1273 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1274 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1276 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1277 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1280 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1281 them in our smtp response.
1283 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1284 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1285 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1286 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1287 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1289 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1290 link count into consideration.
1292 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1293 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1295 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1296 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1297 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1300 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1302 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1304 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1306 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1307 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1308 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1309 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1311 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1313 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1314 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1317 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1318 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1319 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1321 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1322 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1323 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1325 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1326 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1327 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1328 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1329 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1330 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1331 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1332 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1334 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1335 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1336 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1338 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1339 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1340 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1342 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1343 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1350 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1351 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1353 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1354 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1356 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1357 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1358 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1360 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1361 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1362 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1364 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1365 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1366 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1367 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1368 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1371 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1372 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1374 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1375 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1376 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1377 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1378 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1379 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1380 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1382 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1383 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1385 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1388 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1389 Previously this would segfault.
1391 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1394 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1395 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1396 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1397 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1398 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1399 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1401 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1403 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1404 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1405 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1406 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1408 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1410 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1411 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1412 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1413 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1415 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1417 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1419 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1420 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1421 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1423 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1424 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1425 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1427 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1429 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1430 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1431 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1432 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1434 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1435 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1436 promised '?' replacement.
1438 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1440 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1441 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1442 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1443 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1444 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1446 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1447 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1448 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1450 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1451 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1452 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1454 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1455 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1456 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1458 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1459 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1460 hope that is portable enough.
1462 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1463 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1464 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1465 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1467 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1468 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1469 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1471 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1472 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1473 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1474 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1476 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1477 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1479 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1480 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1481 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1482 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1484 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1485 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1486 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1488 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1489 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1490 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1491 the previous G, M, k.
1493 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1494 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1497 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1498 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1499 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1500 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1502 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1503 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1505 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1506 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1507 off past the nul-terimation.
1509 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1510 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1511 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1512 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1513 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1515 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1517 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1518 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1519 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1522 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1523 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1525 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1526 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1527 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1529 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1530 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1531 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1533 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1534 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1540 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1541 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1542 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1543 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1544 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1545 be defined in redis_servers.
1547 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1548 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1550 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1551 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1552 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1553 extant use locations.
1555 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1556 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1558 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1559 Previously only the last row was returned.
1561 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1562 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1563 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1564 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1567 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1568 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1569 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1570 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1571 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1572 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1573 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1574 Main pool for expansions.
1575 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1576 active in the testsuite.
1577 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1579 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1580 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1581 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1582 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1585 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1586 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1589 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1590 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1591 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1593 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1594 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1595 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1597 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1598 rows affected is given instead).
1600 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1601 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1603 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1604 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1605 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1606 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1607 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1609 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1610 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1611 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1613 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1614 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1615 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1616 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1619 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1620 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1621 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1624 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1626 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1627 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1629 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1630 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1631 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1633 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1634 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1635 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1638 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1639 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1641 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1642 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1643 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1645 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1646 for the build is renamed.
1648 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1649 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1650 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1652 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1653 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1654 result replacing the original.
1656 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1657 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1658 and the resources needed to be freed.
1660 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1662 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1665 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1666 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1667 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1668 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1670 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1671 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1673 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1674 newer versions of the scanner.
1676 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1677 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1678 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1679 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1680 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1681 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1682 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1684 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1685 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1686 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1687 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1688 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1689 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1690 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1691 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1692 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1693 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1695 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1696 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1698 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1700 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1701 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1703 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1704 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1706 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1707 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1708 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1710 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1711 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1712 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1713 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1715 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1716 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1719 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1720 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1722 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1723 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1724 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1725 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1726 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1728 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1729 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1732 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1733 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1735 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1738 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1739 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1740 "bare" representation.
1742 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1743 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1744 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1745 corrupted the output.
1751 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1752 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1753 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1754 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1756 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1757 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1759 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1760 This permits better logging.
1762 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1763 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1764 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1765 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1766 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1767 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1769 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1770 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1773 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1774 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1775 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1777 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1778 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1780 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1781 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1782 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1783 client, there is no benefit for these.
1784 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1785 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1786 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1789 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1790 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1792 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1793 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1794 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1796 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1797 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1799 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1800 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1801 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1802 signature and again for transmission.
1804 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1805 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1806 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1808 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1809 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1810 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1811 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1812 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1813 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1814 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1816 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1817 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1818 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1819 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1821 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1822 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1823 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1824 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1825 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1826 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1829 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1830 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1831 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1832 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1835 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1836 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1837 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1838 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1841 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1842 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1845 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1846 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1847 banner-time rejection.
1849 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1852 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1853 is the name of a transport.
1856 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1858 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1859 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1861 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1862 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1863 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1866 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1867 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1868 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1869 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1871 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1872 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1873 initial verify call returned a defer.
1875 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1876 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1878 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1879 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1881 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1882 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1884 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1885 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1887 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1888 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1891 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1892 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1894 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1895 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1896 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1898 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1899 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1900 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1901 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1903 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1904 and confused the parent.
1906 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1907 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1909 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1912 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1913 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1914 out-of-order delivery.
1916 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1917 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1918 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1921 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1922 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1925 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1926 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1927 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1929 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1930 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1931 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1932 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1933 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1934 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1936 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1937 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1938 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1940 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1941 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1942 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1944 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1945 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1946 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1947 though a different problem.
1953 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1954 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1956 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1958 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1959 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1961 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1962 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1964 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1965 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1966 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1967 before acknowledging the chunk.
1969 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1970 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1971 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1973 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1974 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1975 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1978 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1979 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1980 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1982 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1983 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1985 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1986 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1987 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1988 body hash calculated value.
1990 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1991 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1992 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1994 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1996 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1997 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1999 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
2000 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
2001 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
2003 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
2004 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
2005 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
2006 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
2007 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
2008 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
2010 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
2011 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
2012 past that check, despite the cost.
2014 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
2015 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
2016 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
2018 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
2019 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
2020 TLS library to consume.
2022 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
2024 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
2026 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
2027 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
2028 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
2029 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
2030 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
2031 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
2032 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
2034 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
2036 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
2038 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
2039 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
2040 should be warning-free.
2042 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
2044 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
2045 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
2047 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
2048 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
2049 general solution here.
2051 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
2052 already-broken messages in the queue.
2054 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
2056 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
2062 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
2063 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
2065 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
2066 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
2067 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
2069 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
2070 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
2071 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
2072 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
2073 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
2074 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
2075 if one fails this test.
2076 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
2077 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
2079 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
2080 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
2082 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
2083 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
2085 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
2086 in rewrites and routers.
2088 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
2089 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
2091 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
2092 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
2094 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
2096 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
2099 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
2100 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
2101 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
2102 connection after a verify cache hit.
2103 Do not update it with the verify result either.
2105 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
2106 when routing results in more than one destination address.
2108 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
2109 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
2110 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
2111 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
2112 when the cutthrough connection is made).
2114 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
2115 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
2117 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
2118 Previously they were not counted.
2120 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
2121 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
2122 that needed the lookup.
2124 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
2125 distinguished as "(=".
2127 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
2128 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
2130 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
2132 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
2133 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
2135 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
2136 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
2138 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
2139 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
2142 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
2143 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
2144 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
2145 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
2147 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
2149 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2150 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
2151 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
2153 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
2154 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
2155 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
2158 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
2159 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
2160 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
2163 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
2164 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
2165 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
2167 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
2168 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
2171 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
2173 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
2174 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
2176 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
2177 are not in the system include path.
2179 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
2180 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
2181 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
2182 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
2184 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
2185 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
2186 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
2188 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
2190 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
2191 an incoming connection.
2193 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
2196 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
2197 fallback to "prime256v1".
2199 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
2200 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
2206 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
2207 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
2208 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
2209 client dropping the TLS connection.
2211 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
2212 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
2214 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
2215 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
2216 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
2217 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
2220 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
2221 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
2222 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
2223 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
2224 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
2225 check on the next write.
2227 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
2228 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
2229 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
2230 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
2231 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
2233 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
2234 mime_regex ACL conditions.
2236 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
2237 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
2238 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
2240 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
2241 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
2242 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
2243 an authenticate fail is not an error.
2245 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
2246 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
2248 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
2249 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
2251 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
2252 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
2253 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
2256 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
2258 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
2260 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
2262 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
2263 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
2265 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
2266 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
2268 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
2270 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
2271 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
2273 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2275 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2276 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2278 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2280 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2281 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2282 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2283 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2284 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2285 they will retry in-clear.
2286 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2287 at installation time.
2289 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2290 with the $config_file variable.
2292 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2293 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2294 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2295 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2296 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2298 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2299 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2300 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2301 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2302 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2304 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2306 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2307 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2308 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2309 list order is no longer honoured.
2311 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2312 for DKIM processing.
2314 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2315 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2317 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2318 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2319 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2320 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2322 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2323 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2325 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2326 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2328 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2329 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2331 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2333 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2334 cached by the daemon.
2336 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2337 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2339 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2340 keys are given for lookup.
2342 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2343 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2344 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2345 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2347 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2348 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2349 server-side so match that on older versions.
2351 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2352 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2353 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2355 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2356 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2358 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2359 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2360 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2361 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2362 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2363 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2364 initial truncated version.
2366 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2368 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2370 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2371 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2373 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2375 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2377 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2378 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2381 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2382 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2385 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2386 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2388 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2389 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2392 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2393 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2394 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2396 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2397 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2398 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2399 extraction. Accept either.
2405 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2408 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2410 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2413 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2414 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2415 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2416 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2418 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2419 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2420 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2422 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2423 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2424 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2427 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2430 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2431 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2432 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2433 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2434 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2436 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2437 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2438 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2440 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2442 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2443 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2445 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2446 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2448 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2451 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2452 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2454 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2455 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2456 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2458 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2459 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2460 specify a port-range.
2462 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2463 timeout value per server.
2465 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2466 now have the list separator specified.
2468 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2471 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2474 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2476 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2477 rather than the verbs used.
2479 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2480 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2482 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2484 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2485 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2487 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2488 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2490 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2491 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2493 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2495 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2497 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2498 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2499 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2500 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2502 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2504 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2505 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2507 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2508 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2510 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2512 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2514 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2516 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2517 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2519 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2520 added for tls authenticator.
2522 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2528 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2529 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2530 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2531 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2532 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2533 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2534 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2536 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2537 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2538 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2539 function when detected.
2541 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2542 cause callback expansion.
2544 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2545 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2546 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2547 instead of bool when processing it.
2549 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2550 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2552 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2554 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2556 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2558 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2559 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2561 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2562 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2563 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2564 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2565 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2566 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2568 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2569 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2572 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2573 version 3.3.6 or later.
2575 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2576 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2577 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2578 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2579 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2580 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2583 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2584 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2586 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2587 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2588 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2591 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2592 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2593 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2595 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2596 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2598 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2599 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2602 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2604 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2605 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2607 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2608 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2611 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2613 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2616 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2617 output list separator was used.
2622 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2623 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2626 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2627 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2629 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2631 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2632 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2638 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2640 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2641 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2642 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2643 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2644 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2645 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2647 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2648 utilities have not been installed.
2650 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2651 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2653 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2654 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2656 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2657 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2658 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2659 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2661 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2663 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2664 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2666 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2669 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2671 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2672 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2673 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2675 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2676 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2677 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2678 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2679 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2680 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2682 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2684 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2685 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2687 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2690 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2692 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2694 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2695 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2697 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2698 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2700 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2702 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2704 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2705 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2707 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2708 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2709 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2711 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2712 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2713 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2716 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2718 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2719 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2722 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2723 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2726 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2727 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2729 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2730 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2732 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2734 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2735 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2736 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2738 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2739 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2741 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2742 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2745 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2746 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2747 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2749 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2751 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2752 Christian Aistleitner.
2754 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2756 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2757 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2759 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2760 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2762 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2763 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2765 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2766 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2768 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2769 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2771 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2772 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2773 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2775 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2777 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2778 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2781 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2783 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2784 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2791 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2793 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2794 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2796 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2799 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2800 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2803 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2805 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2806 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2807 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2808 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2809 using channel bindings instead).
2811 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2812 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2813 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2814 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2815 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2818 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2820 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2822 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2823 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2825 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2826 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2827 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2829 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2831 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2833 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2834 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2836 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2838 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2840 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2842 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2843 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2845 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2847 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2848 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2851 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2852 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2854 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2855 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2858 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2860 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2862 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2863 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2865 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2868 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2869 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2871 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2872 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2874 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2876 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2878 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2881 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2884 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2886 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2887 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2888 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2889 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2891 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2893 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2894 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2895 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2896 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2899 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2900 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2901 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2903 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2904 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2905 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2906 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2908 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2909 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2910 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2911 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2912 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2913 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2914 delivery, as in LMTP.
2916 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2917 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2919 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2921 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2925 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2926 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2927 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2928 username as equal to the username.
2930 This change corrects that bug.
2932 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2933 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2934 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2936 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2938 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2939 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2940 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2941 NULL dereference and crash.
2943 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2945 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2946 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2947 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2949 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2951 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2952 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2953 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2954 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2955 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2956 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2957 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2958 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2959 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2960 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2961 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2963 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2964 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2966 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2967 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2970 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2971 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2972 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2973 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2974 an empty string is now equivalent.
2976 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2977 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2978 not performing validation itself.
2980 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2981 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2983 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2986 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2988 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2989 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2990 other false fix of the same issue.
2991 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2994 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2995 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2997 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2998 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2999 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
3001 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
3002 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
3003 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
3005 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
3007 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
3009 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
3010 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
3012 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
3015 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
3016 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
3017 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
3018 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
3019 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
3021 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
3022 the src/util/ subdirectory.
3024 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
3025 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
3028 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
3029 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
3030 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
3031 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
3033 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
3035 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
3036 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
3037 from multiple comments on this bug.
3039 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
3041 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
3042 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
3045 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
3046 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
3048 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
3049 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
3055 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
3057 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3063 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
3064 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
3065 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
3067 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
3069 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
3072 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
3074 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
3076 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
3078 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
3079 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
3081 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
3082 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
3084 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
3085 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
3087 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
3088 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
3089 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
3091 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
3093 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
3094 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
3096 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
3098 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
3100 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
3101 non-compliant senders.
3102 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
3104 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
3105 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
3106 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
3108 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
3109 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
3110 in spool file corruption.
3112 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
3113 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
3114 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
3117 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
3118 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
3119 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3121 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
3122 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
3124 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
3126 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
3128 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
3130 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
3131 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
3132 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
3134 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
3135 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3136 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
3137 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
3139 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
3140 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
3142 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
3143 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
3144 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
3145 resolver implementation change.
3147 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
3148 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
3150 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
3152 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
3154 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
3155 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
3157 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
3158 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
3160 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
3161 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
3163 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
3164 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
3165 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
3166 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
3167 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
3169 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3171 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
3172 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
3173 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
3175 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
3177 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
3178 read-only, out of scope).
3179 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
3181 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
3182 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
3183 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
3184 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
3186 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
3188 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
3189 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
3190 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
3191 real issues in debug logging.
3193 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
3194 assignment on my part. Fixed.
3196 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
3197 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
3198 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
3200 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
3201 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
3202 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
3205 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
3206 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
3208 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
3209 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
3210 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
3211 needs to override this, it can.
3213 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
3214 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
3215 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3217 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
3218 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
3219 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
3220 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
3222 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
3228 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
3229 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
3231 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
3233 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
3236 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
3237 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
3239 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
3240 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
3241 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
3243 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
3244 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
3245 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
3246 not safe for signals.
3248 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
3249 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
3250 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
3251 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
3254 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
3256 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
3257 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
3258 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
3259 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
3260 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
3262 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
3263 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
3264 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
3265 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
3266 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
3267 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
3269 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
3270 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
3271 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
3272 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3274 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3275 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3276 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3277 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3279 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3280 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3281 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3282 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3283 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3284 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3285 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3286 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3287 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3289 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3290 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3291 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3292 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3294 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3295 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3296 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3297 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3298 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3299 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3300 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3301 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3302 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3303 details in the main documentation.
3305 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3307 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3309 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3310 repository when doing development or release builds.
3312 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3313 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3315 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3316 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3319 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3321 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3322 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3324 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3325 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3327 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3328 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3330 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3331 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3333 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3334 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3336 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3338 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3341 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3342 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3343 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3345 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3347 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3349 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3350 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3356 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3358 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3359 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3361 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3363 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3365 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3368 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3369 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3371 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3372 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3374 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3375 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3377 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3380 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3381 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3383 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3384 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3385 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3386 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3388 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3389 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3395 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3398 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3399 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3400 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3402 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3403 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3405 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3406 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3407 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3409 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3410 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3412 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3413 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3415 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3416 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3418 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3419 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3421 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3422 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3424 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3427 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3428 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3430 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3431 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3433 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3434 SQL string expansion failure details.
3435 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3437 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3438 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3440 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3441 extern declarations in function scope.
3442 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3444 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3445 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3446 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3449 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3450 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3452 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3453 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3455 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3456 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3458 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3459 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3461 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3462 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3465 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3467 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3469 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3470 Patch by Simon Arlott
3472 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3473 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3479 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3480 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3482 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3483 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3485 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3487 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3488 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3489 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3491 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3492 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3493 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3495 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3496 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3497 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3498 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3500 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3501 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3502 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3503 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3505 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3506 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3507 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3510 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3513 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3514 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3515 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3516 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3517 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3523 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3524 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3525 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3527 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3528 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3530 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3532 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3534 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3536 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3538 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3540 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3541 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3542 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3543 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3545 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3546 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3547 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3548 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3549 more caution in buffer sizes.
3551 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3553 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3555 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3557 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3559 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3561 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3563 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3565 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3566 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3567 ignore trailing whitespace.
3569 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3571 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3574 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3575 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3577 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3578 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3579 Notification from John Horne.
3581 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3584 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3585 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3588 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3591 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3592 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3593 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3595 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3596 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3597 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3600 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3601 option (effectively making it always true).
3603 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3604 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3606 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3607 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3609 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3610 run-time user, instead of root.
3612 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3613 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3615 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3616 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3619 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3620 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3621 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3623 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3625 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3631 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3632 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3635 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3636 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3639 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3640 Patch from Alain Williams
3642 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3644 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3645 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3647 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3648 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3650 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3652 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3654 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3655 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3657 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3659 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3661 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3662 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3663 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3665 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3666 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3668 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3669 Patch by Simon Arlott
3671 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3672 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3678 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3680 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3682 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3684 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3686 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3692 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3693 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3695 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3696 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3699 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3700 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3701 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3703 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3704 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3706 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3707 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3708 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3709 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3711 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3712 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3713 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3715 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3717 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3719 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3720 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3722 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3724 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3725 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3726 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3727 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3729 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3730 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3732 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3734 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3736 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3737 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3739 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3740 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3742 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3743 that they are available at delivery time.
3745 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3747 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3748 incoming_port log selectors.
3750 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3751 setting expands to an empty string.
3753 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3754 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3756 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3757 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3759 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3760 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3762 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3763 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3765 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3766 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3768 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3769 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3771 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3773 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3774 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3776 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3777 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3779 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3781 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3782 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3784 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3786 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3788 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3791 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3792 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3794 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3795 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3797 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3798 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3800 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3801 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3803 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3804 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3806 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3807 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3809 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3810 plus update to original patch.
3812 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3814 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3815 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3817 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3819 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3821 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3823 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3825 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3826 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3828 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3829 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3831 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3832 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3834 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3835 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3837 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3839 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3841 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3843 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3849 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3850 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3851 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3853 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3854 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3855 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3856 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3857 build errors in sieve.c.
3859 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3860 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3861 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3863 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3865 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3867 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3869 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3875 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3877 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3878 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3879 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3880 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3881 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3882 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3883 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3884 for iplsearch lookups.
3886 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3887 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3888 previously such lookups could never work.
3890 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3891 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3892 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3894 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3897 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3898 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3899 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3900 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3901 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3902 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3904 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3905 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3907 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3908 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3909 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3910 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3911 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3912 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3914 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3917 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3919 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3920 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3923 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3924 by clients under certain conditions.
3926 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3927 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3929 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3931 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3932 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3934 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3936 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3938 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3940 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3941 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3943 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3945 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3946 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3948 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3950 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3952 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3953 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3954 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3955 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3957 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3958 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3959 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3961 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3962 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3964 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3966 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3968 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3970 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3971 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3972 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3978 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3979 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3982 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3983 issue a MAIL command.
3985 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3987 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3989 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3990 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3991 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3992 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3993 item. This has been fixed.
3995 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3996 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3998 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3999 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
4001 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
4002 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
4003 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
4005 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
4007 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
4008 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
4009 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
4010 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
4011 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
4013 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
4014 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
4015 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
4017 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
4018 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
4019 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
4020 the server_setid option was incorrect.
4022 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
4024 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
4026 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
4027 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
4028 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
4029 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
4030 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
4032 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
4034 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
4035 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
4036 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
4039 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
4041 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
4043 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
4045 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
4047 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
4049 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
4050 no_callout_flush is set.
4052 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
4053 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
4054 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
4057 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
4059 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4060 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
4061 other ACL rejections are.
4063 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
4064 with slight modification.
4066 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
4067 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
4069 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
4070 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
4073 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
4074 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
4076 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
4078 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
4079 expansion side effects.
4081 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
4082 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
4083 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
4086 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
4087 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
4088 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
4090 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
4091 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
4092 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
4093 were accidentally chopped off.
4095 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
4096 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
4097 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
4098 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
4099 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
4100 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
4101 pipelining has not been advertised.
4103 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
4105 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
4106 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
4107 This has been fixed.
4109 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
4110 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
4111 reported on Solaris.
4113 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
4114 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
4115 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
4116 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
4117 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
4118 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
4119 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
4121 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
4124 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
4126 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
4128 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
4129 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
4130 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
4131 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
4132 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
4133 criteria to be more general.
4135 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
4136 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
4137 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
4138 host_all_ignored option.
4140 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
4141 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
4142 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
4143 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
4144 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
4145 is what is supposed to happen).
4147 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
4148 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
4149 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
4150 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
4151 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
4154 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
4155 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
4156 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
4157 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
4158 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
4159 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
4162 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4164 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
4165 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
4167 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
4168 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
4170 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
4172 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4174 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
4175 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
4176 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
4177 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
4178 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
4179 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
4180 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
4181 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
4182 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
4183 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
4184 least in a lot of common cases.
4186 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
4187 advertised in response to EHLO.
4193 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
4194 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
4196 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
4197 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
4199 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
4200 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
4201 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
4203 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
4204 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
4205 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
4206 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
4207 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
4213 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
4214 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
4217 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
4218 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
4219 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
4221 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
4222 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
4223 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
4224 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
4225 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
4226 rather than extend the field.
4232 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
4233 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
4234 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
4235 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
4238 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
4239 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
4240 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
4242 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
4243 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
4244 hence the _LINUX specificness.
4246 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
4247 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
4248 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
4251 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
4252 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
4253 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
4254 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
4255 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
4256 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
4257 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
4258 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
4259 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
4260 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
4261 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
4263 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
4266 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
4267 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
4268 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
4269 ignores EPIPE as well.
4271 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
4272 (quoted-printable decoding).
4274 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4275 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4277 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4279 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4281 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4283 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4284 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4286 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4289 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4290 miscellaneous code fixes
4292 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4295 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4296 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4297 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4298 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4299 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4300 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4301 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4302 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4304 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4305 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4306 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4307 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4309 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4310 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4311 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4312 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4313 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4314 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4315 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4316 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4317 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4319 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4322 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4323 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4324 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4325 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4326 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4327 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4328 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4329 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4331 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4332 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4335 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4336 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4337 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4338 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4339 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4340 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4341 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4342 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4343 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4344 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4345 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4346 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4347 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4349 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4350 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4351 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4352 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4353 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4354 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4355 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4357 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4358 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4359 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4360 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4361 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4362 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4363 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4364 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4365 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4366 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4368 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4369 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4370 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4371 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4372 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4374 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4375 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4376 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4377 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4378 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4379 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4380 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4382 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4383 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4384 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4385 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4386 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4387 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4390 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4391 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4392 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4395 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4396 if any retry times were supplied.
4398 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4399 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4400 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4402 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4404 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4406 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4407 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4408 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4409 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4410 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4411 before) are ignored.
4413 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4414 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4416 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4417 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4418 committing the later change.]
4420 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4421 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4422 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4423 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4424 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4425 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4426 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4427 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4428 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4430 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4431 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4432 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4433 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4434 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4435 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4436 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4437 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4438 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4440 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4441 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4442 hammering the server.
4444 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4445 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4447 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4449 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4450 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4451 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4453 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4454 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4455 one case where this was not true.
4457 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4458 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4459 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4460 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4463 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4464 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4465 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4466 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4467 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4468 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4469 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4470 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4471 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4474 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4475 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4476 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4477 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4479 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4480 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4482 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4483 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4484 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4486 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4488 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4490 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4492 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4493 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4494 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4495 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4497 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4498 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4500 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4501 be meaningful with "accept".
4503 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4504 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4506 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4507 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4508 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4510 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4511 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4512 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4513 there is data to show.
4514 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4516 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4517 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4518 as well as the number of messages.
4520 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4521 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4522 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4524 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4525 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4526 have a flag are now skipped.
4528 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4529 Added the -emptyok flag.
4531 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4532 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4534 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4535 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4536 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4538 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4541 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4542 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4544 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4546 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4547 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4549 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4551 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4552 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4553 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4554 contravention of the specifications.
4556 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4557 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4558 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4560 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4561 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4562 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4564 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4566 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4567 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4568 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4569 some point in the past.
4571 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4572 transport during callout processing was broken.
4574 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4575 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4577 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4578 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4580 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4581 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4583 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4589 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4590 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4592 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4593 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4594 there is data to show.
4595 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4597 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4598 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4600 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4601 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4603 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4604 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4606 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4607 submissions from trusted users.
4609 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4610 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4612 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4613 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4614 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4615 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4616 there is now a framework to start from.
4618 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4619 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4620 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4622 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4624 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4626 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4628 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4629 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4630 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4632 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4635 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4636 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4637 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4639 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4640 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4641 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4644 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4645 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4646 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4647 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4648 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4650 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4651 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4653 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4655 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4656 operations in malware.c.
4658 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4661 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4662 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4663 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4666 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4667 statements to "add_header".
4669 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4670 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4672 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4673 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4676 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4680 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4681 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4682 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4685 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4686 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4688 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4689 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4691 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4692 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4693 any possible encoding problems.
4695 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4696 but not after initializing Perl.
4698 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4699 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4700 apparently, which is not desirable.
4702 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4705 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4708 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4710 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4711 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4712 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4713 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4715 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4716 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4717 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4719 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4720 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4721 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4724 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4725 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4726 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4727 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4728 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4734 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4735 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4737 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4740 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4741 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4742 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4743 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4744 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4745 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4746 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4747 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4750 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4752 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4753 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4754 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4756 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4757 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4758 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4761 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4762 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4764 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4765 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4766 option (which defaults to 0600).
4768 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4770 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4771 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4772 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4773 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4774 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4775 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4776 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4778 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4784 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4785 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4786 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4787 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4788 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4789 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4792 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4793 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4795 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4797 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4798 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4799 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4800 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4801 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4804 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4805 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4807 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4808 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4809 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4810 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4811 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4813 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4814 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4815 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4816 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4818 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4819 be the same on different OS.
4821 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4824 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4825 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4827 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4830 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4831 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4832 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4833 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4834 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4835 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4838 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4839 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4840 when Exim was called.
4842 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4843 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4845 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4846 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4847 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4848 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4850 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4851 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4852 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4853 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4856 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4857 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4858 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4860 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4861 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4862 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4864 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4867 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4868 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4869 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4870 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4871 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4872 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4873 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4874 values from the SRV records were lost.
4876 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4877 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4878 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4880 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4881 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4882 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4884 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4885 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4886 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4887 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4888 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4889 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4890 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4891 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4892 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4893 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4895 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4896 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4897 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4899 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4900 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4902 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4903 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4904 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4905 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4908 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4909 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4910 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4912 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4913 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4914 PH/23 above applies.
4916 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4917 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4918 (for which there is an explicit test).
4920 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4922 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4923 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4924 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4925 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4926 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4928 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4929 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4930 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4931 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4933 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4934 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4935 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4937 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4939 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4941 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4942 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4943 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4945 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4946 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4947 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4948 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4949 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4951 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4952 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4953 the message gets confusing).
4955 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4956 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4957 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4958 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4960 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4961 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4962 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4963 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4966 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4967 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4968 the different processes.
4970 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4972 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4974 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4975 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4977 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4978 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4980 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4981 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4982 messages matching specified criteria.
4984 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4986 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4987 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4989 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4990 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4991 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4992 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4993 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4994 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4995 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4996 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4997 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4998 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
5000 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
5001 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
5002 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
5004 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
5006 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
5007 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
5008 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
5009 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
5010 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
5011 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
5012 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
5015 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
5016 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
5018 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
5020 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
5022 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
5024 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
5025 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
5026 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
5027 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
5028 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
5029 size of the count of files.
5031 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
5033 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
5036 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
5037 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
5038 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
5039 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
5041 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
5042 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
5043 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
5045 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
5046 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
5047 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
5048 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
5049 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
5051 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
5052 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
5054 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
5055 will now be deprecated.
5057 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5059 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
5060 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
5061 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
5063 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
5064 with very large, slow to parse queues
5066 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
5068 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
5070 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
5071 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
5072 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
5075 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
5076 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
5077 Sieve code now uses this.
5079 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
5080 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
5082 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
5083 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
5085 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
5087 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
5088 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
5089 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
5090 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
5091 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
5093 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
5094 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
5095 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
5096 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
5098 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
5100 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
5102 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
5103 is preferred over IPv4.
5105 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
5106 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
5107 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
5108 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
5109 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
5110 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
5111 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
5113 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
5114 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
5115 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
5117 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
5119 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
5120 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
5121 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
5122 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
5123 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
5124 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
5125 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
5126 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
5127 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
5128 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
5129 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
5131 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
5132 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
5133 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
5139 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
5141 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
5142 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
5144 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
5145 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
5146 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5148 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
5150 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
5153 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
5156 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
5157 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
5158 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
5161 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
5162 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
5164 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
5165 inside the third argument.
5167 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
5168 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
5171 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
5172 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
5174 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
5175 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
5177 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
5179 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
5180 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
5183 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
5185 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
5186 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
5187 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
5188 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
5189 identical. For example:
5191 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
5193 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
5194 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
5195 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
5197 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
5198 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
5199 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
5200 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
5202 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
5203 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
5204 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
5207 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
5209 o fixes some comments
5210 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
5211 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
5212 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
5213 and documents the missing references header update
5217 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
5218 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
5221 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
5222 Electronic Mail") by including:
5224 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
5226 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
5227 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
5228 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
5229 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
5230 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
5232 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5234 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
5236 The auto-replied keyword:
5238 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
5239 message by an automatic process,
5241 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
5243 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
5244 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
5246 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
5247 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
5250 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
5251 to the default Received: header definition.
5253 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
5255 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
5256 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
5257 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
5259 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
5260 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
5261 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
5263 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
5264 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
5265 and treats the condition as false.
5267 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
5269 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
5270 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
5271 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
5272 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
5273 not changing the active code.
5275 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5276 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5278 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5279 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5281 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5284 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5285 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5286 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5287 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5288 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5289 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5290 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5291 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5292 the text comparison.
5294 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5295 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5296 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5297 The same fix has been applied.
5303 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5304 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5307 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5308 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5310 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5312 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5313 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5314 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5315 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5316 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5318 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5319 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5320 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5321 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5324 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5332 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5333 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5335 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5337 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5339 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5340 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5341 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5343 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5344 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5345 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5347 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5348 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5351 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5352 ${stat: expansion item.
5354 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5355 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5357 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5358 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5361 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5363 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5366 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5367 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5369 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5371 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5372 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5373 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5374 the end of the subprocess.
5376 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5377 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5378 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5379 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5380 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5382 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5384 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5386 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5387 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5389 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5391 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5393 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5394 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5397 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5399 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5400 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5401 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5403 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5404 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5406 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5407 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5409 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5410 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5412 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5413 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5415 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5416 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5417 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5418 contributed by a Radius user.
5420 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5421 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5423 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5424 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5426 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5429 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5430 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5433 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5434 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5435 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5436 header lines when this was not necessary.
5438 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5440 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5441 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5442 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5445 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5448 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5449 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5450 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5451 return code was incorrect.
5453 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5455 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5457 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5459 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5461 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5462 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5463 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5464 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5465 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5468 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5470 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5471 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5472 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5473 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5474 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5475 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5476 which is clearly wrong.
5478 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5480 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5481 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5482 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5485 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5486 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5488 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5490 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5491 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5493 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5494 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5496 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5497 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5499 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5500 recipients, not senders.
5502 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5503 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5505 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5507 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5509 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5510 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5511 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5512 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5514 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5516 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5517 clock is set back in time.
5519 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5520 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5522 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5523 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5525 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5526 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5529 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5530 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5533 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5536 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5538 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5539 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5540 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5542 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5543 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5544 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5545 helo verification defer as a failure.
5547 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5548 actual error message.
5554 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5556 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5557 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5558 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5559 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5561 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5563 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5564 can still be requested.
5566 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5567 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5568 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5569 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5571 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5572 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5573 circumstances, but probably never did.
5575 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5576 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5577 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5580 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5582 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5583 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5585 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5587 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5589 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5590 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5591 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5592 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5593 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5594 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5596 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5597 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5598 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5599 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5600 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5601 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5603 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5604 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5606 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5607 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5609 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5610 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5612 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5614 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5616 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5618 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5620 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5622 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5624 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5626 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5627 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5628 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5630 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5631 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5632 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5633 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5635 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5636 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5637 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5639 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5640 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5641 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5642 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5644 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5645 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5648 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5649 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5650 should work with maildirs and everything.
5652 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5653 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5655 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5658 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5659 function for BDB 4.3.
5661 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5663 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5664 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5667 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5668 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5669 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5670 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5671 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5672 formatting function string_vformat().
5674 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5675 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5676 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5677 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5678 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5679 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5680 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5681 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5683 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5684 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5687 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5688 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5690 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5691 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5692 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5693 test. It is now used for both.
5695 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5696 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5697 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5698 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5699 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5700 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5702 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5703 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5704 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5707 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5708 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5709 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5711 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5712 experimental DomainKeys support:
5714 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5715 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5716 the control was given.
5718 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5720 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5722 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5724 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5725 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5726 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5729 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5730 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5731 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5732 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5733 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5734 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5737 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5738 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5739 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5740 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5741 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5742 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5744 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5745 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5746 do -d+all out of habit.
5748 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5749 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5752 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5753 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5754 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5755 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5756 record types that Exim uses.
5758 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5759 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5760 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5761 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5762 non-existent file that was broken.
5764 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5765 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5767 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5768 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5769 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5771 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5773 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5774 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5775 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5776 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5777 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5780 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5781 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5782 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5783 at a slight CPU cost.
5785 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5786 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5788 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5791 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5793 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5794 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5800 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5801 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5803 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5805 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5807 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5808 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5810 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5811 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5812 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5813 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5814 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5815 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5818 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5819 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5820 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5821 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5824 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5825 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5826 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5827 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5828 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5829 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5830 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5833 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5834 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5836 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5837 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5838 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5839 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5840 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5841 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5843 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5844 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5845 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5846 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5848 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5851 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5852 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5854 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5855 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5856 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5857 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5860 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5862 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5863 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5865 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5866 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5867 to what was transported.)
5869 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5871 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5872 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5873 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5874 spamd_address settings.
5876 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5877 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5878 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5879 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5880 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5882 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5884 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5885 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5886 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5887 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5888 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5890 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5891 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5893 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5894 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5895 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5896 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5897 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5898 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5899 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5902 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5903 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5904 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5905 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5906 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5907 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5908 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5911 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5913 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5914 driver and ACL definitions.
5916 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5917 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5919 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5920 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5921 understands it better than I do:
5923 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5924 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5926 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5927 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5928 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5929 => three warnings about OTP not working
5930 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5932 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5933 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5934 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5935 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5937 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5938 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5940 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5941 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5942 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5944 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5945 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5948 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5949 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5952 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5953 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5954 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5956 warn !verify = sender
5957 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5959 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5960 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5962 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5964 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5965 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5967 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5968 nomenclature these days.)
5970 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5971 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5973 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5974 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5975 . First host does not offer TLS;
5976 . First host accepts first address;
5977 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5978 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5979 . Second host accepts second address.
5980 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5981 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5984 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5985 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5986 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5987 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5988 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5990 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5991 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5993 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5994 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5996 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5997 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5998 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
6000 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
6001 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
6004 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
6006 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
6007 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
6008 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
6009 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
6010 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
6011 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
6012 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
6014 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
6015 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
6016 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
6017 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
6018 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
6020 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
6021 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
6024 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
6025 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
6026 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
6027 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
6028 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
6029 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
6031 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
6033 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
6034 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
6035 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
6036 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
6037 printable escape sequences.
6039 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
6040 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
6043 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
6044 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
6047 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
6048 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
6049 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
6050 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
6051 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
6053 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
6054 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
6055 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
6057 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
6059 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
6060 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
6063 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
6064 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
6065 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
6066 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
6067 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
6068 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
6069 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
6070 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
6071 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
6074 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
6075 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
6076 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
6077 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
6081 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
6082 ----------------------------------------
6084 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
6085 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
6086 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
6087 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
6088 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
6089 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
6092 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
6093 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
6094 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
6095 historical information.
6101 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6103 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
6104 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
6106 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6107 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6110 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6111 filter fails to execute.
6113 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6114 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6115 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6116 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6117 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6119 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
6121 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6122 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6123 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6124 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6126 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6127 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6128 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6129 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6130 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6132 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
6134 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6136 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6137 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6138 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6139 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6141 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6142 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6143 sender verification.
6145 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
6146 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
6148 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
6150 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
6153 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6154 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6156 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6157 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6159 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
6160 information about exactly what failed.
6162 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
6164 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
6165 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
6166 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
6168 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
6169 It is now set to "smtps".
6171 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6172 ignore_target_hosts.
6174 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6175 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6176 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6177 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6180 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6181 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6182 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6184 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6185 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6186 wake it up if nothing else does.
6188 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6189 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6190 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6193 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6194 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6196 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
6198 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
6199 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
6200 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
6201 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
6202 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
6203 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
6204 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
6205 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
6207 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
6208 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
6209 than one IP address.
6211 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
6212 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
6213 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
6214 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
6216 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6217 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6218 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6219 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6220 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6223 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
6224 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
6225 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
6226 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
6228 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6229 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6232 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6233 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6234 $sender_host_address.
6236 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
6237 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
6238 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
6239 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
6240 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
6243 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
6245 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
6246 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
6248 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
6249 just the host names, not the priorities.
6251 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
6252 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
6253 controlled by a keyword.
6255 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
6256 multiple records are returned.
6258 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
6259 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
6262 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
6264 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
6265 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
6267 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6268 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6269 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6271 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
6273 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6275 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6277 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6278 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6279 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6280 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6281 because the tests only now provoked it.
6283 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6284 (this can affect the format of dates).
6286 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6287 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6288 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6289 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6291 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6293 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6294 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6295 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6296 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6298 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6299 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6300 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6302 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6305 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6306 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6307 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6308 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6309 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6310 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6313 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6314 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6315 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6318 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6319 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6320 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6322 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6323 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6324 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6325 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6326 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6327 so I produce this patch..."
6329 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6330 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6333 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6334 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6335 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6336 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6339 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6341 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6342 long debug lines gets shown.
6344 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6345 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6347 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6349 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6350 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6351 of $primary_hostname.
6353 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6354 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6355 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6356 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6357 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6358 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6359 by change 4.50/55 above.
6361 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6362 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6363 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6364 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6365 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6366 running as the user.
6369 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6370 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6371 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6374 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6375 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6377 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6378 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6379 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6380 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6381 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6383 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6384 This has been fixed.
6386 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6387 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6388 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6389 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6392 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6394 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6395 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6396 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6397 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6399 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6400 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6402 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6403 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6404 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6406 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6407 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6408 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6411 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6412 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6413 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6415 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6416 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6417 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6418 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6420 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6421 during host lookups.
6423 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6424 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6426 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6428 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6429 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6430 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6431 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6432 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6435 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6436 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6438 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6439 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6440 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6442 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6444 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6445 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6446 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6447 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6448 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6449 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6452 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6453 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6454 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6455 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6456 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6458 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6461 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6463 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6464 "vacation" handling.
6466 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6467 OS variants using glibc.
6469 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6472 ----------------------------------------------------
6473 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6474 ----------------------------------------------------
6480 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6481 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6484 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6485 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6488 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6489 filter fails to execute.
6491 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6492 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6493 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6494 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6495 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6497 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6498 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6499 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6500 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6502 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6503 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6504 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6505 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6506 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6508 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6510 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6511 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6512 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6513 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6515 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6516 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6517 sender verification.
6519 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6520 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6522 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6523 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6525 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6526 ignore_target_hosts.
6528 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6529 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6530 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6531 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6534 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6535 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6536 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6538 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6539 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6540 wake it up if nothing else does.
6542 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6543 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6544 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6547 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6548 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6550 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6552 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6553 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6556 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6557 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6560 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6561 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6562 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6563 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6564 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6567 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6568 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6571 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6572 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6573 $sender_host_address.
6575 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6577 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6578 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6579 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6581 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6584 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6585 (this can affect the format of dates).
6587 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6588 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6589 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6590 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6592 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6593 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6594 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6596 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6597 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6598 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6599 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6601 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6602 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6603 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6605 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6608 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6609 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6610 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6611 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6612 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6613 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6616 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6617 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6618 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6619 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6622 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6623 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6624 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6625 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6626 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6627 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6628 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6630 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6631 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6632 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6633 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6634 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6635 running as the user.
6638 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6639 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6640 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6643 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6644 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6645 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6646 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6647 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6649 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6650 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6651 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6652 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6655 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6656 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6657 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6658 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6659 because the tests only now provoked it.
6665 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6666 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6667 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6668 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6669 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6670 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6671 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6673 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6674 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6677 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6679 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6681 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6682 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6685 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6686 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6687 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6688 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6689 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6691 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6692 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6694 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6696 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6698 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6701 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6702 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6704 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6705 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6706 affecting debugging statements).
6708 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6710 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6711 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6712 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6713 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6714 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6715 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6716 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6717 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6718 after the received time, and all would be well.
6720 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6721 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6722 condition in an expansion string.
6724 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6726 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6727 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6728 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6729 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6730 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6731 job under whatever limits there are.
6733 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6735 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6738 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6739 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6740 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6741 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6744 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6745 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6746 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6747 binary data in such strings.
6749 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6751 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6752 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6753 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6754 failure, which is pointless.
6756 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6758 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6760 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6761 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6762 Sender: header lines.
6764 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6765 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6766 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6768 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6769 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6770 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6771 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6772 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6775 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6776 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6777 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6778 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6779 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6781 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6782 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6783 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6786 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6787 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6789 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6790 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6792 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6794 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6796 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6798 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6801 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6803 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6805 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6806 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6807 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6808 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6810 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6811 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6817 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6818 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6819 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6821 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6822 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6823 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6824 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6825 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6826 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6828 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6829 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6830 verification failure".
6832 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6833 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6834 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6835 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6837 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6838 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6839 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6840 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6841 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6842 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6843 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6844 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6845 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6846 treated as a timeout.
6848 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6849 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6850 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6851 not set for Exim filters).
6853 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6854 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6855 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6857 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6859 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6860 try to make them clearer.
6862 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6863 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6865 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6867 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6869 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6870 only the Cygwin environment.
6872 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6873 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6874 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6875 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6876 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6878 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6879 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6880 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6881 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6882 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6883 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6884 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6886 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6887 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6889 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6891 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6892 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6893 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6895 To: susanne@some.where
6897 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6898 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6899 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6900 of addresses in From: header lines).
6902 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6903 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6904 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6906 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6907 treated as non-personal.
6909 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6910 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6912 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6914 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6916 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6917 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6918 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6920 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6921 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6923 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6924 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6925 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6926 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6927 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6928 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6930 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6931 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6932 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6933 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6934 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6935 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6936 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6937 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6939 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6941 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6942 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6944 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6945 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6946 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6948 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6949 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6951 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6952 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6953 rather than long int.
6955 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6957 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6963 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6964 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6965 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6966 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6967 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6968 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6974 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6975 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6977 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6978 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6979 socklen_t is defined.
6981 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6984 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6987 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6988 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6989 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6990 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6991 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6993 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6994 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6995 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6996 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6998 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6999 of flapping under certain conditions.
7001 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
7002 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
7003 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
7005 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
7007 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
7009 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
7010 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
7011 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
7012 the duration of the SMTP connection.
7014 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
7015 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
7016 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
7017 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
7018 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
7019 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
7020 preserved with the message after it was received.
7022 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
7023 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
7024 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
7025 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
7026 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
7027 test suite worked just fine.
7029 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
7030 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
7031 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
7033 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
7034 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
7037 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
7038 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
7039 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
7040 does not fully solve it.
7042 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
7043 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
7044 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
7045 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
7046 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
7048 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
7049 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
7050 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
7052 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
7053 string, for example:
7055 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
7057 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
7058 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
7059 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
7060 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
7061 the routers could not see them.
7063 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
7064 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
7066 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
7067 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
7070 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
7071 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
7072 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
7073 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
7074 that needed quoting.
7076 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
7077 was not being matched caselessly.
7079 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
7082 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
7083 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
7084 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
7085 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
7086 when use_sender is false.
7088 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
7090 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
7092 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
7094 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
7095 the configuration file.
7097 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
7098 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
7100 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
7102 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
7103 bytes in the message body.
7105 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
7106 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
7109 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
7111 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
7113 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
7114 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
7115 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
7116 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
7123 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
7124 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
7126 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
7127 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
7128 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
7129 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
7130 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
7132 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
7133 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
7135 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
7136 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
7137 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
7139 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
7140 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
7141 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
7143 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
7146 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
7147 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
7148 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
7149 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
7150 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
7151 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
7152 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
7158 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
7159 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
7160 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
7161 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
7162 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
7163 default (and expected) setting.
7165 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
7166 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
7167 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
7168 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
7170 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
7171 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
7173 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
7176 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
7177 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
7178 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
7179 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
7180 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
7181 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
7183 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
7184 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
7185 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
7187 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
7188 part (NOT match_host).
7190 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
7192 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
7193 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
7194 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
7195 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
7196 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
7197 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
7198 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
7199 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
7200 the same named file.
7202 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
7203 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
7206 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
7207 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
7208 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
7209 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
7212 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
7213 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
7214 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
7216 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
7218 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
7220 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
7222 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
7223 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
7225 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
7226 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
7227 before starting the TLS session.
7229 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
7231 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
7232 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
7234 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
7235 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
7236 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
7237 colon in the middle).
7243 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
7244 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
7245 multiple configurations are in use.
7247 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
7248 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
7249 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
7250 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
7251 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
7252 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
7254 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
7255 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
7257 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
7258 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
7259 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
7261 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
7262 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
7265 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
7266 that used bh_ and bheader_.
7268 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
7270 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
7271 allowing one more file than it should have been.
7273 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7281 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7282 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7283 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7284 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7285 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7287 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7290 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7291 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7292 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7293 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7294 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7295 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7297 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7298 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7299 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7300 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7301 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7302 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7303 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7306 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7307 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7308 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7309 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7310 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7312 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7314 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7315 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7316 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7318 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7320 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7321 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7322 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7325 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7326 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7328 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7329 Three changes have been made:
7331 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7332 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7333 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7334 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7335 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7337 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7340 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7341 the modified behaviour.
7347 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7350 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7351 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7353 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7354 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7355 try to track down a specific problem.
7357 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7358 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7359 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7361 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7364 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7365 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7366 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7367 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7368 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7369 some earlier ones do not.
7371 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7373 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7374 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7375 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7376 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7377 address literals are enabled, of course).
7379 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7381 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7382 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7383 by a command such as
7387 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7389 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7391 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7392 remained set. It is now erased.
7394 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7395 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7397 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7398 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7399 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7400 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7401 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7402 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7403 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7404 appropriate error code.
7406 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7407 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7408 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7409 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7410 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7411 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7413 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7414 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7415 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7417 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7418 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7419 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7420 terminate the header.
7422 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7423 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7424 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7426 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7427 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7428 (4.30/29). In particular:
7430 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7433 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7434 to write a maildirsize file.
7436 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7437 the transport, the new value overrides.
7439 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7442 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7443 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7444 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7447 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7448 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7449 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7452 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7453 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7454 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7456 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7457 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7460 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7461 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7462 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7464 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7466 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7468 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7470 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7471 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7474 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7475 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7476 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7477 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7478 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7479 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7480 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7483 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7484 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7485 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7486 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7487 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7490 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7491 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7492 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7493 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7494 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7495 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7496 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7497 cached value only when the same options are set.
7499 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7501 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7502 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7503 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7504 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7505 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7507 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7508 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7509 it is clearly obsolete.
7511 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7514 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7515 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7516 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7519 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7520 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7521 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7522 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7523 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7525 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7526 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7527 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7528 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7530 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7532 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7534 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7535 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7538 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7539 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7540 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7541 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7542 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7543 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7546 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7547 with the -f command-line option.
7549 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7550 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7551 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7552 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7553 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7554 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7556 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7557 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7560 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7561 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7562 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7563 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7564 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7565 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7566 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7567 buffer is too small.
7569 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7570 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7572 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7573 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7574 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7575 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7576 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7577 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7578 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7579 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7580 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7582 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7583 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7584 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7586 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7587 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7590 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7591 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7592 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7593 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7594 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7596 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7597 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7598 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7599 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7602 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7604 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7606 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7607 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7609 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7610 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7611 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7613 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7614 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7615 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7616 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7617 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7619 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7620 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7621 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7622 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7623 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7624 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7625 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7627 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7628 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7629 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7630 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7631 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7632 the test of how many are available.
7634 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7635 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7636 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7637 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7638 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7639 new message is started.
7641 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7642 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7644 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7645 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7647 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7648 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7649 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7652 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7653 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7654 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7655 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7656 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7657 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7658 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7660 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7661 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7662 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7663 interpreted as octal.
7665 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7668 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7669 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7670 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7671 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7672 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7673 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7675 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7676 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7677 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7678 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7680 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7681 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7682 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7683 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7685 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7686 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7689 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7690 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7692 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7694 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7695 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7696 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7697 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7699 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7700 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7701 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7702 supplied", which is not helpful.
7704 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7705 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7706 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7708 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7709 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7710 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7711 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7712 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7713 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7714 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7715 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7717 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7718 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7719 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7720 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7721 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7723 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7724 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7725 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7726 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7727 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7728 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7730 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7731 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7732 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7734 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7736 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7737 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7738 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7741 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7743 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7744 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7745 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7746 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7747 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7748 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7749 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7750 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7752 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7753 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7754 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7755 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7756 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7758 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7761 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7762 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7763 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7764 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7765 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7766 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7767 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7768 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7769 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7775 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7776 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7777 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7779 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7782 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7783 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7784 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7786 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7787 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7788 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7789 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7790 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7791 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7793 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7794 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7795 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7796 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7797 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7798 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7799 the Exim test suite.
7801 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7802 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7803 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7804 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7806 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7807 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7808 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7809 specify it in this variable.
7811 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7812 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7813 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7814 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7816 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7817 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7818 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7819 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7821 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7822 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7823 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7824 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7825 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7827 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7829 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7832 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7833 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7834 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7835 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7836 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7838 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7839 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7841 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7842 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7843 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7844 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7845 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7847 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7848 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7850 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7851 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7852 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7854 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7855 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7857 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7858 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7860 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7861 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7862 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7864 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7865 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7867 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7868 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7869 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7870 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7872 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7874 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7875 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7876 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7877 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7879 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7881 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7882 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7884 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7886 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7887 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7888 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7889 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7890 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7891 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7893 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7895 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7896 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7899 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7901 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7902 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7904 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7905 550 Sender verify failed
7907 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7908 the final line of the response.
7910 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7911 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7912 all other user lookups.
7914 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7917 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7918 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7919 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7920 result into an int without checking.
7922 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7923 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7924 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7926 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7927 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7928 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7929 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7931 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7934 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7935 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7937 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7938 to the empty sender.
7940 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7941 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7942 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7943 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7944 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7945 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7946 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7949 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7950 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7951 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7952 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7955 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7956 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7958 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7961 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7962 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7964 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7966 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7967 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7970 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7971 as soon as it is encountered.
7973 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7975 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7978 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7979 recognizes a tab character.
7981 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7982 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7983 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7984 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7986 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7988 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7991 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7993 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7995 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7996 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7999 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
8000 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
8001 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
8002 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
8003 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
8005 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
8006 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
8008 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
8009 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
8010 list (.included file names were always shown).
8012 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
8013 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
8014 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
8017 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
8018 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
8020 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
8022 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
8024 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
8026 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
8027 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
8028 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
8029 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
8030 failures to open the logs.
8032 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
8033 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
8034 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
8035 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
8036 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
8037 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
8038 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
8044 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
8045 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
8046 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
8049 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
8050 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
8051 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
8053 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
8054 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
8055 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
8057 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
8058 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
8059 causing some misleading effects.
8061 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
8062 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
8063 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
8065 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
8066 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
8067 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
8068 queue-runner function directly.
8074 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
8077 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
8078 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
8079 was always written to the default place.
8081 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
8082 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
8083 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
8085 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
8087 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
8089 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
8090 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
8091 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
8093 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
8094 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
8097 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
8098 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
8099 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
8101 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
8102 command line option is disabled.
8104 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
8105 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
8107 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
8109 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
8111 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
8112 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
8114 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
8116 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
8117 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
8118 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
8119 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
8120 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
8121 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
8123 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
8124 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
8127 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
8128 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
8130 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
8131 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
8133 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
8134 received was valid base64.
8136 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
8137 name of the variable that was being set.
8139 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
8141 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
8142 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
8143 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
8144 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
8145 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
8146 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
8148 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
8150 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
8151 nor realm was specified.
8153 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
8154 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
8155 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
8156 errors are given to SMTP connections.
8158 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
8159 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
8160 failing to send a response to QUIT.
8162 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
8163 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
8164 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
8166 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
8167 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
8168 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
8169 some systems use these upper case variants.
8171 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
8172 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
8173 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
8174 socket" when it tried to send the third.
8176 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
8178 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
8179 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
8181 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
8182 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
8185 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
8187 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
8188 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
8189 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
8190 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
8192 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
8195 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
8196 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
8197 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
8199 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
8200 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
8202 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
8203 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
8204 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
8205 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
8207 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
8208 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
8209 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
8211 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
8213 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
8214 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
8215 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
8216 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
8219 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
8220 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
8221 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
8223 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
8225 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
8226 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
8228 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
8229 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
8231 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
8232 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
8233 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
8234 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
8235 when emails are that large.
8242 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
8243 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
8245 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
8246 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
8247 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
8249 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
8250 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
8251 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
8253 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
8254 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
8255 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
8256 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
8257 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
8259 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
8260 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
8261 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
8262 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
8263 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
8266 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
8267 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
8268 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
8269 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
8270 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
8271 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
8272 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
8273 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8274 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8275 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8276 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8277 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8278 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8279 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8281 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8282 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8285 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8286 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8287 error should be diagnosed.
8289 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8290 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8291 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8292 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8293 appeared instead of "NULL".
8295 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8296 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8297 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8298 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8299 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8300 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8303 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8304 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8305 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8311 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8312 or receiver verification errors.
8314 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8317 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8318 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8319 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8320 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8322 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8323 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8324 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8325 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8326 shouldn't happen again.
8328 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8329 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8330 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8332 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8333 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8335 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8337 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8338 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8340 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8341 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8344 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8345 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8346 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8348 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8349 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8350 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8351 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8353 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8354 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8355 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8356 to define what should happen).
8358 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8359 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8360 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8362 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8364 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8366 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8367 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8369 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8370 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8371 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8372 structure in all cases.
8374 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8375 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8376 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8377 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8379 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8380 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8383 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8384 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8386 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8387 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8389 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8390 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8391 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8393 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8394 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8395 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8397 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8398 the book and for uniformity.
8400 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8402 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8403 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8404 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8405 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8406 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8407 non-existent command as the problem.
8409 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8410 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8411 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8413 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8415 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8416 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8417 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8419 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8420 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8421 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8422 timestamps using strftime().
8424 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8425 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8427 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8428 transport-time rewrites.
8430 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8431 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8432 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8433 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8435 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8436 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8438 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8439 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8440 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8441 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8444 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8445 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8446 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8447 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8448 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8449 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8450 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8452 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8453 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8454 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8455 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8456 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8458 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8459 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8460 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8461 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8462 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8463 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8464 remaining text gets split now.
8466 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8467 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8468 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8469 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8471 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8472 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8473 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8474 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8477 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8478 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8479 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8480 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8481 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8482 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8483 passed through if needed.
8485 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8486 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8487 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8488 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8489 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8490 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8492 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8493 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8494 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8495 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8496 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8498 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8499 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8500 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8501 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8502 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8504 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8505 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8508 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8509 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8510 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8511 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8512 mayhem of various kinds.
8514 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8515 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8516 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8517 the right test for positive values.
8519 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8520 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8521 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8522 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8523 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8524 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8525 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8526 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8527 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8528 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8531 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8534 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8535 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8538 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8539 the existing equality matching.
8541 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8542 dealing with inode numbers.
8544 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8545 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8546 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8548 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8549 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8550 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8551 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8554 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8555 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8556 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8557 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8558 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8559 relay addresses has also been removed.
8561 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8563 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8564 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8565 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8567 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8568 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8569 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8570 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8571 processing applies to CR:
8573 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8574 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8576 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8577 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8578 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8579 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8581 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8582 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8583 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8585 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8586 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8587 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8588 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8589 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8590 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8593 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8596 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8597 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8598 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8599 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8602 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8604 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8606 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8608 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8609 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8610 not considered personal.
8612 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8614 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8616 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8618 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8619 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8620 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8621 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8622 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8623 header lines, and spool format errors.
8625 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8626 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8627 for more flexibility.
8629 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8630 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8631 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8633 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8636 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8637 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8638 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8639 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8640 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8641 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8642 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8643 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8644 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8646 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8647 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8648 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8649 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8650 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8651 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8652 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8654 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8655 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8656 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8658 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8659 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8660 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8661 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8662 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8663 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8664 instead of killing the process with assert().
8666 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8667 than Unicode encoding.
8669 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8670 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8671 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8672 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8674 77. Added process_log_path.
8676 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8677 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8679 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8680 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8682 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8683 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8684 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8686 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8687 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8688 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8689 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8690 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8693 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8694 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8697 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8698 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8699 they will be used during message reception.
8705 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.