1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a release action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
246 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
281 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
283 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
284 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
285 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
286 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
288 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
289 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
291 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
292 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
293 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
294 mode until after various protocol state checks.
295 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
297 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
299 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
300 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
302 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
305 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
306 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
307 executed child processes (if any).
309 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
312 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
313 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
314 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
315 been reported on other platforms.
317 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
319 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
320 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
321 Not supported on Solaris 10.
323 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
324 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
325 since fakereject was originally introduced.
327 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
328 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
330 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
331 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
332 incorrrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
339 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
340 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
341 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
343 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
345 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
346 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
349 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
350 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
351 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
353 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
355 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
357 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
358 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
359 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
361 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
362 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
363 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
365 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
366 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
368 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
369 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
372 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
373 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
374 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
375 should both provide the file and set the option.
376 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
378 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
379 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
381 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
382 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
383 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
384 Authentication-Results: header.
386 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
387 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
388 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
389 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
391 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
392 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
393 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
394 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
395 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
396 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
397 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
399 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
400 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
401 copies while it is still usable.
403 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
404 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
405 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
407 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
408 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
410 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
411 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
412 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
413 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
415 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
416 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
417 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
420 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
421 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
422 - the pipe transport command
423 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
424 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
426 - paths used by single-key lookups
427 Previously this was permitted.
429 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
430 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
431 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
432 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
434 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
435 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
436 support larger malloc requests.
438 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
439 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
440 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
441 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
443 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
444 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
445 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
446 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
449 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
450 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
451 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
452 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
453 data being length-specified.
455 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
456 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
457 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
458 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
460 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
461 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
462 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
463 not being properly tracked.
465 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
466 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
467 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
468 minute could be seen.
470 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
471 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
472 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
474 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
475 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
477 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
478 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
481 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
483 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
484 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
486 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
487 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
488 filesystem as sufficient validation.
490 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
491 argument is supplied.
493 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
494 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
495 access under Exim's current working directory.
497 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
498 Previously no event was raised.
500 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
501 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
502 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
505 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
506 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
507 the size of the signature hash.
509 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
510 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
512 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
513 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
514 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
515 dropped between messages.
517 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
518 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
519 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
520 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
522 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
523 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
524 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
525 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
526 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
527 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
528 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
529 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
530 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
532 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
533 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
534 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
536 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
537 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
544 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
545 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
547 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
548 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
551 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
554 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
556 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
558 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
559 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
561 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
562 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
563 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
564 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
565 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
566 suitably configured).
568 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
569 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
571 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
572 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
575 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
576 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
578 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
579 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
580 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
581 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
584 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
585 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
586 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
588 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
591 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
592 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
594 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
595 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
596 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
597 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
600 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
601 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
602 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
603 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
606 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
607 shared (NFS) environment.
609 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
610 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
613 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
614 on some platforms for bit 31.
616 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
617 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
618 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
619 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
620 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
621 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
622 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
623 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
625 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
627 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
628 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
630 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
631 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
634 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
635 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
638 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
639 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
640 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
643 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
644 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
645 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
647 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
648 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
649 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
650 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
651 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
653 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
656 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
657 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
658 be requested on all coneections.
660 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
661 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
663 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
665 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
666 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
667 one for these; the option was ignored.
669 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
670 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
671 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
672 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
674 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
675 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
676 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
679 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
680 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
681 error ignored was made.
683 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
685 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
686 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
687 values, to catch one form of exploit.
689 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
690 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
691 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
693 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
694 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
697 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
698 them in our smtp response.
700 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
701 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
702 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
703 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
704 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
706 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
707 link count into consideration.
709 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
710 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
712 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
713 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
714 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
717 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
719 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
721 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
723 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
724 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
725 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
726 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
728 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
730 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
731 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
734 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
735 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
736 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
738 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
739 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
740 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
742 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
743 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
744 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
745 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
746 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
747 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
748 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
749 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
751 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
752 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
753 resulted in an indefinite loop.
755 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
756 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
757 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
763 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
764 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
766 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
767 non-signal-safe functions being used.
769 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
770 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
771 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
773 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
774 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
775 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
777 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
778 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
779 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
780 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
781 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
784 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
785 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
787 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
788 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
789 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
790 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
791 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
792 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
793 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
795 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
796 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
798 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
801 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
802 Previously this would segfault.
804 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
807 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
808 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
809 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
810 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
811 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
812 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
814 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
816 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
817 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
818 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
819 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
821 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
823 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
824 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
825 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
826 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
828 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
830 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
832 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
833 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
834 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
836 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
837 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
838 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
840 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
842 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
843 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
844 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
845 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
847 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
848 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
849 promised '?' replacement.
851 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
853 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
854 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
855 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
856 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
857 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
859 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
860 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
861 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
863 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
864 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
865 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
867 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
868 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
869 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
871 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
872 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
873 hope that is portable enough.
875 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
876 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
877 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
878 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
880 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
881 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
882 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
884 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
885 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
886 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
887 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
889 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
890 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
892 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
893 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
894 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
895 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
897 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
898 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
899 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
901 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
902 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
903 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
904 the previous G, M, k.
906 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
907 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
910 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
911 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
912 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
913 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
915 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
916 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
918 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
919 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
920 off past the nul-terimation.
922 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
923 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
924 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
925 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
926 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
928 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
930 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
931 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
932 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
935 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
936 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
938 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
939 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
940 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
942 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
943 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
944 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
946 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
947 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
953 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
954 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
955 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
956 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
957 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
958 be defined in redis_servers.
960 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
961 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
963 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
964 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
965 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
966 extant use locations.
968 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
969 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
971 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
972 Previously only the last row was returned.
974 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
975 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
976 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
977 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
980 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
981 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
982 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
983 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
984 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
985 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
986 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
987 Main pool for expansions.
988 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
989 active in the testsuite.
990 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
992 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
993 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
994 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
995 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
998 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
999 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1002 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1003 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1004 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1006 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1007 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1008 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1010 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1011 rows affected is given instead).
1013 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1014 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1016 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1017 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1018 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1019 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1020 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1022 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1023 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1024 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1026 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1027 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1028 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1029 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1032 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1033 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1034 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1037 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1039 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1040 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1042 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1043 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1044 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1046 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1047 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1048 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1051 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1052 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1054 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1055 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1056 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1058 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1059 for the build is renamed.
1061 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1062 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1063 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1065 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1066 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1067 result replacing the original.
1069 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1070 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1071 and the resources needed to be freed.
1073 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1075 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1078 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1079 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1080 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1081 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1083 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1084 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1086 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1087 newer versions of the scanner.
1089 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1090 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1091 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1092 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1093 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1094 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1095 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1097 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1098 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1099 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1100 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1101 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1102 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1103 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1104 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1105 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1106 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1108 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1109 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1111 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1113 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1114 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1116 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1117 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1119 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1120 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1121 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1123 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1124 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1125 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1126 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1128 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1129 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1132 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1133 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1135 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1136 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1137 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1138 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1139 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1141 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1142 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1145 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1146 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1148 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1151 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1152 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1153 "bare" representation.
1155 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1156 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1157 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1158 corrupted the output.
1164 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1165 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1166 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1167 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1169 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1170 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1172 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1173 This permits better logging.
1175 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1176 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1177 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1178 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1179 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1180 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1182 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1183 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1186 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1187 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1188 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1190 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1191 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1193 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1194 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1195 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1196 client, there is no benefit for these.
1197 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1198 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1199 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1202 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1203 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1205 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1206 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1207 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1209 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1210 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1212 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1213 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1214 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1215 signature and again for transmission.
1217 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1218 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1219 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1221 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1222 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1223 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1224 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1225 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1226 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1227 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1229 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1230 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1231 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1232 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1234 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1235 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1236 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1237 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1238 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1239 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1242 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1243 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1244 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1245 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1248 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1249 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1250 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1251 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1254 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1255 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1258 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1259 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1260 banner-time rejection.
1262 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1265 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1266 is the name of a transport.
1269 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1271 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1272 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1274 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1275 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1276 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1279 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1280 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1281 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1282 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1284 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1285 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1286 initial verify call returned a defer.
1288 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1289 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1291 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1292 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1294 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1295 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1297 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1298 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1300 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1301 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1304 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1305 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1307 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1308 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1309 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1311 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1312 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1313 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1314 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1316 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1317 and confused the parent.
1319 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1320 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1322 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1325 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1326 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1327 out-of-order delivery.
1329 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1330 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1331 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1334 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1335 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1338 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1339 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1340 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1342 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1343 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1344 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1345 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1346 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1347 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1349 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1350 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1351 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1353 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1354 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1355 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1357 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1358 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1359 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1360 though a different problem.
1366 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1367 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1369 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1371 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1372 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1374 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1375 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1377 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1378 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1379 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1380 before acknowledging the chunk.
1382 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1383 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1384 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1386 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1387 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1388 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1391 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1392 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1393 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1395 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1396 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1398 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1399 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1400 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1401 body hash calculated value.
1403 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1404 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1405 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1407 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1409 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1410 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1412 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1413 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1414 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1416 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1417 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1418 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1419 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1420 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1421 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1423 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1424 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1425 past that check, despite the cost.
1427 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1428 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1429 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1431 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1432 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1433 TLS library to consume.
1435 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1437 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1439 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1440 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1441 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1442 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1443 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1444 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1445 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1447 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1449 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1451 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1452 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1453 should be warning-free.
1455 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1457 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1458 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1460 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1461 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1462 general solution here.
1464 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1465 already-broken messages in the queue.
1467 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1469 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1475 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1476 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1478 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1479 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1480 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1482 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1483 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1484 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1485 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1486 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1487 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1488 if one fails this test.
1489 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1490 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1492 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1493 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1495 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1496 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1498 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1499 in rewrites and routers.
1501 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1502 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1504 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1505 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1507 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1509 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1512 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1513 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1514 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1515 connection after a verify cache hit.
1516 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1518 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1519 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1521 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1522 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1523 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1524 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1525 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1527 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1528 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1530 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1531 Previously they were not counted.
1533 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1534 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1535 that needed the lookup.
1537 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1538 distinguished as "(=".
1540 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1541 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1543 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1545 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1546 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1548 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1549 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1551 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1552 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1555 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1556 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1557 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1558 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1560 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1562 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1563 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1564 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1566 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1567 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1568 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1571 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1572 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1573 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1576 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1577 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1578 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1580 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1581 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1584 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1586 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1587 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1589 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1590 are not in the system include path.
1592 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1593 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1594 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1595 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1597 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1598 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1599 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1601 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1603 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1604 an incoming connection.
1606 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1609 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1610 fallback to "prime256v1".
1612 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1613 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1619 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1620 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1621 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1622 client dropping the TLS connection.
1624 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1625 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1627 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1628 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1629 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1630 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1633 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1634 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1635 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1636 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1637 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1638 check on the next write.
1640 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1641 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1642 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1643 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1644 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1646 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1647 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1649 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1650 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1651 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1653 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1654 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1655 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1656 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1658 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1659 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1661 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1662 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1664 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1665 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1666 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1669 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1671 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1673 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1675 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1676 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1678 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1679 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1681 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1683 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1684 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1686 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1688 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1689 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1691 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1693 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1694 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1695 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1696 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1697 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1698 they will retry in-clear.
1699 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1700 at installation time.
1702 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1703 with the $config_file variable.
1705 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1706 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1707 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1708 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1709 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1711 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1712 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1713 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1714 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1715 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1717 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1719 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1720 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1721 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1722 list order is no longer honoured.
1724 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1725 for DKIM processing.
1727 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1728 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1730 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1731 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1732 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1733 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1735 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1736 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1738 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1739 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1741 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1742 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1744 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1746 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1747 cached by the daemon.
1749 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1750 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1752 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1753 keys are given for lookup.
1755 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1756 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1757 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1758 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1760 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1761 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1762 server-side so match that on older versions.
1764 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1765 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1766 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1768 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1769 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1771 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1772 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1773 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1774 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1775 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1776 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1777 initial truncated version.
1779 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1781 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1783 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1784 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1786 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1788 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1790 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1791 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1794 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1795 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1798 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1799 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1801 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1802 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1805 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1806 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1807 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1809 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1810 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1811 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1812 extraction. Accept either.
1818 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1821 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1823 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1826 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1827 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1828 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1829 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1831 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1832 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1833 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1835 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1836 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1837 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1840 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1843 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1844 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1845 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1846 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1847 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1849 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1850 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1851 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1853 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1855 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1856 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1858 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1859 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1861 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1864 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1865 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1867 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1868 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1869 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1871 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1872 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1873 specify a port-range.
1875 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1876 timeout value per server.
1878 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1879 now have the list separator specified.
1881 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1884 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1887 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1889 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1890 rather than the verbs used.
1892 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1893 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1895 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1897 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1898 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1900 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1901 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1903 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1904 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1906 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1908 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1910 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1911 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1912 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1913 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1915 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1917 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1918 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1920 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1921 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1923 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1925 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1927 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1929 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1930 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1932 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1933 added for tls authenticator.
1935 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1941 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1942 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1943 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1944 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1945 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1946 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1947 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1949 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1950 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1951 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1952 function when detected.
1954 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1955 cause callback expansion.
1957 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1958 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1959 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1960 instead of bool when processing it.
1962 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1963 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1965 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1967 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1969 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1971 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1972 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1974 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1975 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1976 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1977 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1978 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1979 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1981 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1982 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1985 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1986 version 3.3.6 or later.
1988 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1989 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1990 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1991 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1992 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1993 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1996 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1997 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1999 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2000 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2001 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2004 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2005 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2006 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2008 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2009 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2011 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2012 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2015 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2017 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2018 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2020 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2021 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2024 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2026 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2029 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2030 output list separator was used.
2035 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2036 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2039 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2040 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2042 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2044 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2045 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2051 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2053 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2054 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2055 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2056 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2057 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2058 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2060 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2061 utilities have not been installed.
2063 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2064 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2066 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2067 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2069 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2070 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2071 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2072 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2074 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2076 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2077 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2079 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2082 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2084 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2085 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2086 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2088 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2089 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2090 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2091 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2092 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2093 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2095 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2097 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2098 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2100 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2103 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2105 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2107 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2108 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2110 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2111 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2113 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2115 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2117 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2118 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2120 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2121 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2122 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2124 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2125 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2126 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2129 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2131 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2132 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2135 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2136 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2139 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2140 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2142 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2143 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2145 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2147 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2148 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2149 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2151 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2152 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2154 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2155 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2158 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2159 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2160 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2162 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2164 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2165 Christian Aistleitner.
2167 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2169 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2170 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2172 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2173 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2175 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2176 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2178 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2179 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2181 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2182 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2184 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2185 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2186 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2188 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2190 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2191 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2194 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2196 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2197 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2204 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2206 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2207 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2209 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2212 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2213 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2216 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2218 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2219 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2220 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2221 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2222 using channel bindings instead).
2224 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2225 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2226 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2227 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2228 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2231 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2233 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2235 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2236 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2238 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2239 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2240 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2242 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2244 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2246 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2247 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2249 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2251 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2253 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2255 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2256 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2258 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2260 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2261 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2264 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2265 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2267 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2268 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2271 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2273 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2275 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2276 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2278 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2281 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2282 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2284 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2285 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2287 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2289 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2291 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2294 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2297 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2299 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2300 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2301 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2302 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2304 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2306 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2307 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2308 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2309 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2312 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2313 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2314 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2316 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2317 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2318 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2319 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2321 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2322 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2323 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2324 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2325 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2326 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2327 delivery, as in LMTP.
2329 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2330 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2332 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2334 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2338 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2339 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2340 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2341 username as equal to the username.
2343 This change corrects that bug.
2345 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2346 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2347 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2349 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2351 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2352 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2353 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2354 NULL dereference and crash.
2356 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2358 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2359 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2360 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2362 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2364 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2365 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2366 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2367 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2368 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2369 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2370 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2371 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2372 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2373 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2374 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2376 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2377 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2379 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2380 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2383 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2384 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2385 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2386 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2387 an empty string is now equivalent.
2389 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2390 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2391 not performing validation itself.
2393 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2394 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2396 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2399 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2401 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2402 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2403 other false fix of the same issue.
2404 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2407 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2408 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2410 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2411 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2412 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2414 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2415 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2416 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2418 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2420 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2422 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2423 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2425 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2428 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2429 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2430 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2431 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2432 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2434 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2435 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2437 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2438 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2441 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2442 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2443 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2444 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2446 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2448 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2449 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2450 from multiple comments on this bug.
2452 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2454 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2455 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2458 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2459 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2461 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2462 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2468 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2470 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2476 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2477 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2478 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2480 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2482 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2485 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2487 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2489 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2491 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2492 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2494 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2495 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2497 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2498 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2500 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2501 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2502 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2504 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2506 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2507 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2509 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2511 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2513 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2514 non-compliant senders.
2515 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2517 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2518 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2519 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2521 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2522 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2523 in spool file corruption.
2525 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2526 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2527 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2530 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2531 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2532 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2534 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2535 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2537 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2539 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2541 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2543 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2544 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2545 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2547 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2548 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2549 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2550 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2552 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2553 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2555 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2556 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2557 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2558 resolver implementation change.
2560 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2561 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2563 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2565 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2567 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2568 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2570 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2571 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2573 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2574 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2576 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2577 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2578 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2579 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2580 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2582 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2584 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2585 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2586 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2588 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2590 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2591 read-only, out of scope).
2592 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2594 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2595 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2596 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2597 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2599 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2601 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2602 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2603 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2604 real issues in debug logging.
2606 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2607 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2609 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2610 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2611 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2613 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2614 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2615 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2618 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2619 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2621 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2622 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2623 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2624 needs to override this, it can.
2626 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2627 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2628 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2630 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2631 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2632 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2633 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2635 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2641 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2642 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2644 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2646 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2649 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2650 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2652 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2653 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2654 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2656 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2657 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2658 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2659 not safe for signals.
2661 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2662 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2663 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2664 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2667 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2669 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2670 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2671 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2672 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2673 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2675 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2676 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2677 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2678 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2679 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2680 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2682 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2683 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2684 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2685 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2687 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2688 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2689 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2690 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2692 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2693 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2694 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2695 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2696 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2697 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2698 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2699 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2700 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2702 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2703 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2704 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2705 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2707 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2708 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2709 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2710 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2711 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2712 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2713 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2714 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2715 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2716 details in the main documentation.
2718 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2720 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2722 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2723 repository when doing development or release builds.
2725 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2726 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2728 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2729 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2732 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2734 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2735 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2737 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2738 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2740 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2741 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2743 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2744 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2746 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2747 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2749 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2751 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2754 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2755 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2756 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2758 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2760 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2762 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2763 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2769 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2771 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2772 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2774 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2776 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2778 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2781 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2782 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2784 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2785 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2787 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2788 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2790 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2793 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2794 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2796 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2797 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2798 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2799 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2801 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2802 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2808 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2811 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2812 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2813 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2815 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2816 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2818 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2819 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2820 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2822 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2823 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2825 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2826 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2828 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2829 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2831 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2832 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2834 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2835 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2837 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2840 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2841 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2843 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2844 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2846 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2847 SQL string expansion failure details.
2848 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2850 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2851 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2853 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2854 extern declarations in function scope.
2855 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2857 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2858 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2859 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2862 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2863 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2865 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2866 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2868 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2869 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2871 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2872 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2874 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2875 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2878 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2880 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2882 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2883 Patch by Simon Arlott
2885 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2886 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2892 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2893 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2895 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2896 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2898 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2900 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2901 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2902 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2904 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2905 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2906 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2908 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2909 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2910 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2911 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2913 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2914 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2915 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2916 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2918 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2919 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2920 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2923 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2926 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2927 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2928 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2929 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2930 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2936 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2937 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2938 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2940 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2941 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2943 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2945 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2947 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2949 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2951 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2953 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2954 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2955 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2956 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2958 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2959 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2960 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2961 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2962 more caution in buffer sizes.
2964 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2966 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2968 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2970 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2972 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2974 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2976 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2978 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2979 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2980 ignore trailing whitespace.
2982 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2984 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2987 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2988 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2990 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2991 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2992 Notification from John Horne.
2994 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2997 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2998 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3001 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3004 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3005 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3006 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3008 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3009 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3010 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3013 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3014 option (effectively making it always true).
3016 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3017 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3019 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3020 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3022 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3023 run-time user, instead of root.
3025 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3026 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3028 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3029 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3032 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3033 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3034 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3036 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3038 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3044 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3045 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3048 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3049 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3052 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3053 Patch from Alain Williams
3055 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3057 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3058 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3060 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3061 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3063 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3065 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3067 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3068 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3070 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3072 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3074 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3075 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3076 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3078 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3079 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3081 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3082 Patch by Simon Arlott
3084 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3085 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3091 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3093 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3095 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3097 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3099 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3105 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3106 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3108 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3109 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3112 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3113 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3114 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3116 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3117 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3119 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3120 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3121 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3122 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3124 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3125 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3126 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3128 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3130 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3132 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3133 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3135 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3137 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3138 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3139 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3140 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3142 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3143 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3145 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3147 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3149 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3150 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3152 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3153 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3155 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3156 that they are available at delivery time.
3158 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3160 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3161 incoming_port log selectors.
3163 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3164 setting expands to an empty string.
3166 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3167 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3169 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3170 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3172 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3173 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3175 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3176 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3178 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3179 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3181 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3182 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3184 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3186 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3187 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3189 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3190 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3192 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3194 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3195 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3197 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3199 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3201 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3204 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3205 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3207 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3208 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3210 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3211 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3213 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3214 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3216 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3217 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3219 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3220 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3222 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3223 plus update to original patch.
3225 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3227 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3228 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3230 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3232 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3234 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3236 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3238 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3239 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3241 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3242 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3244 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3245 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3247 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3248 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3250 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3252 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3254 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3256 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3262 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3263 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3264 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3266 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3267 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3268 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3269 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3270 build errors in sieve.c.
3272 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3273 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3274 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3276 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3278 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3280 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3282 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3288 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3290 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3291 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3292 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3293 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3294 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3295 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3296 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3297 for iplsearch lookups.
3299 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3300 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3301 previously such lookups could never work.
3303 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3304 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3305 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3307 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3310 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3311 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3312 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3313 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3314 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3315 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3317 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3318 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3320 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3321 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3322 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3323 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3324 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3325 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3327 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3330 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3332 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3333 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3336 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3337 by clients under certain conditions.
3339 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3340 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3342 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3344 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3345 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3347 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3349 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3351 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3353 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3354 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3356 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3358 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3359 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3361 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3363 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3365 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3366 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3367 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3368 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3370 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3371 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3372 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3374 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3375 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3377 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3379 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3381 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3383 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3384 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3385 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3391 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3392 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3395 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3396 issue a MAIL command.
3398 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3400 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3402 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3403 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3404 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3405 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3406 item. This has been fixed.
3408 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3409 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3411 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3412 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3414 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3415 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3416 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3418 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3420 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3421 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3422 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3423 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3424 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3426 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3427 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3428 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3430 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3431 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3432 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3433 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3435 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3437 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3439 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3440 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3441 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3442 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3443 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3445 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3447 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3448 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3449 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3452 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3454 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3456 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3458 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3460 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3462 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3463 no_callout_flush is set.
3465 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3466 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3467 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3470 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3472 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3473 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3474 other ACL rejections are.
3476 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3477 with slight modification.
3479 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3480 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3482 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3483 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3486 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3487 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3489 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3491 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3492 expansion side effects.
3494 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3495 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3496 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3499 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3500 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3501 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3503 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3504 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3505 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3506 were accidentally chopped off.
3508 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3509 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3510 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3511 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3512 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3513 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3514 pipelining has not been advertised.
3516 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3518 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3519 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3520 This has been fixed.
3522 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3523 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3524 reported on Solaris.
3526 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3527 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3528 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3529 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3530 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3531 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3532 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3534 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3537 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3539 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3541 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3542 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3543 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3544 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3545 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3546 criteria to be more general.
3548 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3549 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3550 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3551 host_all_ignored option.
3553 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3554 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3555 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3556 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3557 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3558 is what is supposed to happen).
3560 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3561 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3562 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3563 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3564 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3567 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3568 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3569 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3570 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3571 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3572 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3575 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3577 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3578 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3580 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3581 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3583 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3585 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3587 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3588 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3589 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3590 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3591 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3592 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3593 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3594 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3595 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3596 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3597 least in a lot of common cases.
3599 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3600 advertised in response to EHLO.
3606 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3607 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3609 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3610 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3612 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3613 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3614 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3616 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3617 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3618 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3619 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3620 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3626 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3627 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3630 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3631 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3632 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3634 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3635 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3636 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3637 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3638 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3639 rather than extend the field.
3645 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3646 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3647 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3648 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3651 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3652 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3653 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3655 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3656 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3657 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3659 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3660 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3661 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3664 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3665 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3666 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3667 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3668 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3669 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3670 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3671 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3672 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3673 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3674 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3676 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3679 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3680 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3681 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3682 ignores EPIPE as well.
3684 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3685 (quoted-printable decoding).
3687 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3688 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3690 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3692 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3694 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3696 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3697 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3699 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3702 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3703 miscellaneous code fixes
3705 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3708 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3709 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3710 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3711 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3712 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3713 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3714 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3715 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3717 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3718 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3719 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3720 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3722 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3723 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3724 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3725 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3726 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3727 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3728 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3729 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3730 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3732 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3735 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3736 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3737 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3738 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3739 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3740 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3741 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3742 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3744 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3745 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3748 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3749 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3750 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3751 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3752 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3753 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3754 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3755 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3756 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3757 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3758 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3759 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3760 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3762 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3763 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3764 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3765 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3766 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3767 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3768 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3770 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3771 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3772 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3773 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3774 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3775 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3776 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3777 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3778 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3779 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3781 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3782 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3783 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3784 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3785 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3787 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3788 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3789 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3790 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3791 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3792 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3793 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3795 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3796 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3797 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3798 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3799 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3800 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3803 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3804 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3805 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3808 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3809 if any retry times were supplied.
3811 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3812 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3813 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3815 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3817 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3819 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3820 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3821 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3822 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3823 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3824 before) are ignored.
3826 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3827 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3829 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3830 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3831 committing the later change.]
3833 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3834 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3835 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3836 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3837 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3838 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3839 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3840 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3841 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3843 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3844 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3845 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3846 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3847 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3848 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3849 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3850 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3851 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3853 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3854 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3855 hammering the server.
3857 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3858 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3860 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3862 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3863 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3864 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3866 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3867 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3868 one case where this was not true.
3870 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3871 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3872 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3873 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3876 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3877 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3878 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3879 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3880 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3881 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3882 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3883 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3884 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3887 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3888 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3889 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3890 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3892 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3893 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3895 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3896 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3897 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3899 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3901 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3903 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3905 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3906 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3907 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3908 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3910 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3911 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3913 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3914 be meaningful with "accept".
3916 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3917 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3919 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3920 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3921 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3923 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3924 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3925 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3926 there is data to show.
3927 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3929 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3930 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3931 as well as the number of messages.
3933 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3934 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3935 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3937 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3938 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3939 have a flag are now skipped.
3941 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3942 Added the -emptyok flag.
3944 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3945 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3947 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3948 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3949 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3951 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3954 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3955 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3957 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3959 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3960 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3962 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3964 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3965 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3966 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3967 contravention of the specifications.
3969 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3970 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3971 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3973 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3974 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3975 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3977 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3979 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3980 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3981 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3982 some point in the past.
3984 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3985 transport during callout processing was broken.
3987 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3988 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3990 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3991 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3993 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3994 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3996 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4002 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4003 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4005 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4006 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4007 there is data to show.
4008 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4010 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4011 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4013 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4014 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4016 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4017 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4019 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4020 submissions from trusted users.
4022 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4023 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4025 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4026 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4027 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4028 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4029 there is now a framework to start from.
4031 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4032 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4033 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4035 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4037 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4039 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4041 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4042 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4043 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4045 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4048 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4049 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4050 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4052 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4053 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4054 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4057 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4058 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4059 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4060 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4061 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4063 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4064 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4066 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4068 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4069 operations in malware.c.
4071 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4074 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4075 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4076 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4079 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4080 statements to "add_header".
4082 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4083 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4085 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4086 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4089 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4093 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4094 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4095 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4098 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4099 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4101 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4102 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4104 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4105 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4106 any possible encoding problems.
4108 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4109 but not after initializing Perl.
4111 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4112 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4113 apparently, which is not desirable.
4115 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4118 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4121 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4123 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4124 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4125 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4126 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4128 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4129 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4130 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4132 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4133 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4134 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4137 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4138 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4139 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4140 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4141 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4147 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4148 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4150 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4153 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4154 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4155 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4156 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4157 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4158 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4159 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4160 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4163 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4165 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4166 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4167 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4169 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4170 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4171 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4174 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4175 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4177 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4178 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4179 option (which defaults to 0600).
4181 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4183 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4184 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4185 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4186 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4187 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4188 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4189 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4191 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4197 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4198 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4199 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4200 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4201 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4202 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4205 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4206 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4208 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4210 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4211 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4212 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4213 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4214 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4217 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4218 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4220 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4221 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4222 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4223 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4224 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4226 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4227 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4228 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4229 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4231 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4232 be the same on different OS.
4234 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4237 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4238 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4240 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4243 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4244 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4245 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4246 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4247 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4248 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4251 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4252 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4253 when Exim was called.
4255 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4256 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4258 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4259 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4260 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4261 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4263 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4264 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4265 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4266 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4269 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4270 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4271 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4273 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4274 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4275 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4277 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4280 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4281 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4282 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4283 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4284 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4285 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4286 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4287 values from the SRV records were lost.
4289 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4290 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4291 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4293 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4294 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4295 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4297 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4298 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4299 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4300 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4301 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4302 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4303 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4304 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4305 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4306 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4308 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4309 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4310 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4312 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4313 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4315 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4316 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4317 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4318 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4321 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4322 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4323 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4325 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4326 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4327 PH/23 above applies.
4329 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4330 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4331 (for which there is an explicit test).
4333 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4335 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4336 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4337 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4338 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4339 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4341 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4342 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4343 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4344 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4346 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4347 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4348 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4350 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4352 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4354 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4355 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4356 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4358 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4359 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4360 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4361 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4362 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4364 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4365 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4366 the message gets confusing).
4368 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4369 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4370 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4371 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4373 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4374 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4375 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4376 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4379 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4380 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4381 the different processes.
4383 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4385 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4387 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4388 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4390 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4391 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4393 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4394 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4395 messages matching specified criteria.
4397 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4399 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4400 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4402 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4403 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4404 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4405 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4406 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4407 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4408 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4409 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4410 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4411 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4413 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4414 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4415 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4417 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4419 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4420 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4421 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4422 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4423 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4424 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4425 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4428 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4429 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4431 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4433 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4435 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4437 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4438 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4439 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4440 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4441 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4442 size of the count of files.
4444 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4446 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4449 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4450 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4451 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4452 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4454 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4455 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4456 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4458 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4459 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4460 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4461 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4462 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4464 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4465 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4467 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4468 will now be deprecated.
4470 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4472 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4473 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4474 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4476 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4477 with very large, slow to parse queues
4479 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4481 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4483 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4484 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4485 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4488 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4489 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4490 Sieve code now uses this.
4492 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4493 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4495 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4496 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4498 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4500 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4501 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4502 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4503 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4504 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4506 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4507 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4508 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4509 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4511 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4513 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4515 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4516 is preferred over IPv4.
4518 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4519 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4520 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4521 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4522 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4523 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4524 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4526 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4527 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4528 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4530 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4532 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4533 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4534 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4535 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4536 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4537 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4538 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4539 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4540 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4541 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4542 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4544 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4545 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4546 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4552 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4554 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4555 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4557 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4558 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4559 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4561 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4563 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4566 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4569 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4570 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4571 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4574 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4575 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4577 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4578 inside the third argument.
4580 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4581 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4584 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4585 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4587 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4588 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4590 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4592 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4593 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4596 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4598 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4599 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4600 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4601 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4602 identical. For example:
4604 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4606 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4607 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4608 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4610 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4611 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4612 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4613 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4615 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4616 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4617 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4620 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4622 o fixes some comments
4623 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4624 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4625 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4626 and documents the missing references header update
4630 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4631 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4634 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4635 Electronic Mail") by including:
4637 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4639 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4640 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4641 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4642 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4643 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4645 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4647 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4649 The auto-replied keyword:
4651 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4652 message by an automatic process,
4654 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4656 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4657 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4659 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4660 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4663 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4664 to the default Received: header definition.
4666 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4668 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4669 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4670 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4672 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4673 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4674 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4676 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4677 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4678 and treats the condition as false.
4680 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4682 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4683 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4684 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4685 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4686 not changing the active code.
4688 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4689 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4691 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4692 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4694 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4697 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4698 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4699 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4700 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4701 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4702 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4703 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4704 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4705 the text comparison.
4707 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4708 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4709 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4710 The same fix has been applied.
4716 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4717 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4720 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4721 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4723 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4725 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4726 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4727 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4728 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4729 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4731 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4732 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4733 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4734 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4737 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4745 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4746 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4748 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4750 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4752 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4753 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4754 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4756 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4757 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4758 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4760 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4761 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4764 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4765 ${stat: expansion item.
4767 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4768 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4770 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4771 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4774 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4776 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4779 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4780 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4782 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4784 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4785 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4786 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4787 the end of the subprocess.
4789 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4790 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4791 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4792 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4793 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4795 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4797 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4799 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4800 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4802 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4804 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4806 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4807 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4810 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4812 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4813 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4814 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4816 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4817 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4819 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4820 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4822 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4823 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4825 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4826 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4828 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4829 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4830 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4831 contributed by a Radius user.
4833 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4834 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4836 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4837 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4839 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4842 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4843 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4846 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4847 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4848 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4849 header lines when this was not necessary.
4851 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4853 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4854 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4855 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4858 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4861 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4862 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4863 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4864 return code was incorrect.
4866 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4868 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4870 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4872 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4874 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4875 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4876 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4877 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4878 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4881 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4883 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4884 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4885 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4886 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4887 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4888 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4889 which is clearly wrong.
4891 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4893 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4894 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4895 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4898 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4899 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4901 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4903 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4904 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4906 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4907 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4909 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4910 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4912 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4913 recipients, not senders.
4915 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4916 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4918 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4920 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4922 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4923 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4924 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4925 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4927 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4929 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4930 clock is set back in time.
4932 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4933 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4935 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4936 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4938 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4939 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4942 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4943 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4946 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4949 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4951 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4952 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4953 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4955 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4956 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4957 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4958 helo verification defer as a failure.
4960 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4961 actual error message.
4967 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4969 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4970 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4971 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4972 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4974 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4976 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4977 can still be requested.
4979 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4980 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4981 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4982 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4984 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4985 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4986 circumstances, but probably never did.
4988 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4989 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4990 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4993 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4995 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4996 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4998 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5000 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5002 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5003 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5004 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5005 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5006 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5007 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5009 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5010 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5011 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5012 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5013 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5014 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5016 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5017 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5019 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5020 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5022 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5023 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5025 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5027 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5029 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5031 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5033 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5035 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5037 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5039 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5040 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5041 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5043 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5044 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5045 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5046 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5048 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5049 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5050 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5052 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5053 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5054 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5055 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5057 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5058 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5061 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5062 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5063 should work with maildirs and everything.
5065 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5066 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5068 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5071 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5072 function for BDB 4.3.
5074 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5076 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5077 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5080 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5081 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5082 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5083 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5084 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5085 formatting function string_vformat().
5087 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5088 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5089 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5090 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5091 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5092 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5093 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5094 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5096 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5097 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5100 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5101 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5103 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5104 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5105 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5106 test. It is now used for both.
5108 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5109 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5110 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5111 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5112 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5113 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5115 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5116 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5117 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5120 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5121 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5122 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5124 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5125 experimental DomainKeys support:
5127 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5128 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5129 the control was given.
5131 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5133 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5135 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5137 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5138 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5139 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5142 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5143 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5144 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5145 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5146 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5147 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5150 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5151 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5152 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5153 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5154 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5155 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5157 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5158 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5159 do -d+all out of habit.
5161 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5162 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5165 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5166 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5167 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5168 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5169 record types that Exim uses.
5171 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5172 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5173 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5174 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5175 non-existent file that was broken.
5177 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5178 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5180 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5181 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5182 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5184 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5186 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5187 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5188 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5189 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5190 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5193 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5194 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5195 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5196 at a slight CPU cost.
5198 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5199 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5201 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5204 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5206 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5207 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5213 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5214 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5216 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5218 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5220 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5221 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5223 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5224 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5225 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5226 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5227 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5228 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5231 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5232 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5233 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5234 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5237 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5238 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5239 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5240 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5241 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5242 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5243 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5246 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5247 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5249 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5250 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5251 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5252 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5253 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5254 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5256 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5257 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5258 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5259 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5261 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5264 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5265 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5267 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5268 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5269 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5270 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5273 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5275 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5276 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5278 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5279 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5280 to what was transported.)
5282 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5284 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5285 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5286 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5287 spamd_address settings.
5289 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5290 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5291 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5292 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5293 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5295 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5297 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5298 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5299 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5300 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5301 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5303 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5304 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5306 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5307 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5308 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5309 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5310 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5311 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5312 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5315 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5316 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5317 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5318 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5319 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5320 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5321 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5324 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5326 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5327 driver and ACL definitions.
5329 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5330 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5332 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5333 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5334 understands it better than I do:
5336 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5337 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5339 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5340 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5341 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5342 => three warnings about OTP not working
5343 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5345 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5346 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5347 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5348 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5350 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5351 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5353 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5354 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5355 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5357 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5358 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5361 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5362 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5365 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5366 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5367 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5369 warn !verify = sender
5370 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5372 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5373 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5375 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5377 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5378 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5380 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5381 nomenclature these days.)
5383 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5384 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5386 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5387 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5388 . First host does not offer TLS;
5389 . First host accepts first address;
5390 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5391 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5392 . Second host accepts second address.
5393 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5394 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5397 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5398 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5399 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5400 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5401 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5403 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5404 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5406 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5407 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5409 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5410 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5411 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5413 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5414 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5417 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5419 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5420 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5421 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5422 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5423 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5424 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5425 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5427 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5428 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5429 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5430 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5431 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5433 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5434 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5437 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5438 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5439 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5440 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5441 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5442 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5444 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5446 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5447 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5448 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5449 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5450 printable escape sequences.
5452 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5453 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5456 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5457 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5460 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5461 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5462 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5463 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5464 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5466 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5467 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5468 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5470 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5472 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5473 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5476 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5477 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5478 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5479 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5480 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5481 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5482 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5483 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5484 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5487 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5488 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5489 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5490 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5494 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5495 ----------------------------------------
5497 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5498 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5499 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5500 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5501 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5502 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5505 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5506 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5507 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5508 historical information.
5514 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5516 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5517 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5519 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5520 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5523 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5524 filter fails to execute.
5526 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5527 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5528 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5529 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5530 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5532 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5534 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5535 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5536 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5537 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5539 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5540 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5541 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5542 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5543 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5545 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5547 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5549 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5550 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5551 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5552 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5554 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5555 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5556 sender verification.
5558 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5559 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5561 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5563 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5566 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5567 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5569 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5570 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5572 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5573 information about exactly what failed.
5575 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5577 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5578 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5579 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5581 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5582 It is now set to "smtps".
5584 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5585 ignore_target_hosts.
5587 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5588 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5589 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5590 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5593 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5594 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5595 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5597 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5598 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5599 wake it up if nothing else does.
5601 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5602 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5603 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5606 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5607 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5609 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5611 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5612 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5613 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5614 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5615 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5616 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5617 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5618 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5620 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5621 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5622 than one IP address.
5624 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5625 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5626 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5627 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5629 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5630 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5631 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5632 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5633 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5636 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5637 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5638 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5639 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5641 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5642 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5645 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5646 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5647 $sender_host_address.
5649 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5650 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5651 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5652 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5653 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5656 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5658 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5659 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5661 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5662 just the host names, not the priorities.
5664 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5665 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5666 controlled by a keyword.
5668 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5669 multiple records are returned.
5671 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5672 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5675 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5677 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5678 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5680 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5681 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5682 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5684 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5686 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5688 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5690 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5691 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5692 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5693 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5694 because the tests only now provoked it.
5696 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5697 (this can affect the format of dates).
5699 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5700 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5701 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5702 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5704 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5706 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5707 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5708 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5709 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5711 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5712 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5713 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5715 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5718 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5719 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5720 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5721 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5722 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5723 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5726 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5727 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5728 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5731 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5732 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5733 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5735 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5736 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5737 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5738 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5739 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5740 so I produce this patch..."
5742 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5743 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5746 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5747 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5748 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5749 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5752 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5754 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5755 long debug lines gets shown.
5757 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5758 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5760 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5762 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5763 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5764 of $primary_hostname.
5766 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5767 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5768 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5769 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5770 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5771 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5772 by change 4.50/55 above.
5774 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5775 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5776 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5777 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5778 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5779 running as the user.
5782 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5783 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5784 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5787 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5788 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5790 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5791 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5792 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5793 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5794 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5796 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5797 This has been fixed.
5799 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5800 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5801 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5802 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5805 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5807 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5808 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5809 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5810 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5812 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5813 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5815 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5816 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5817 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5819 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5820 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5821 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5824 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5825 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5826 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5828 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5829 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5830 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5831 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5833 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5834 during host lookups.
5836 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5837 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5839 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5841 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5842 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5843 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5844 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5845 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5848 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5849 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5851 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5852 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5853 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5855 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5857 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5858 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5859 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5860 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5861 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5862 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5865 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5866 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5867 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5868 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5869 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5871 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5874 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5876 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5877 "vacation" handling.
5879 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5880 OS variants using glibc.
5882 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5885 ----------------------------------------------------
5886 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5887 ----------------------------------------------------
5893 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5894 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5897 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5898 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5901 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5902 filter fails to execute.
5904 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5905 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5906 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5907 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5908 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5910 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5911 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5912 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5913 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5915 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5916 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5917 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5918 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5919 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5921 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5923 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5924 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5925 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5926 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5928 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5929 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5930 sender verification.
5932 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5933 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5935 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5936 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5938 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5939 ignore_target_hosts.
5941 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5942 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5943 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5944 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5947 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5948 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5949 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5951 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5952 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5953 wake it up if nothing else does.
5955 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5956 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5957 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5960 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5961 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5963 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5965 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5966 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5969 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5970 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5973 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5974 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5975 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5976 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5977 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5980 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5981 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5984 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5985 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5986 $sender_host_address.
5988 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5990 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5991 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5992 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5994 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5997 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5998 (this can affect the format of dates).
6000 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6001 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6002 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6003 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6005 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6006 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6007 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6009 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6010 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6011 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6012 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6014 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6015 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6016 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6018 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6021 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6022 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6023 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6024 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6025 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6026 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6029 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6030 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6031 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6032 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6035 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6036 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6037 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6038 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6039 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6040 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6041 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6043 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6044 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6045 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6046 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6047 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6048 running as the user.
6051 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6052 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6053 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6056 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6057 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6058 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6059 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6060 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6062 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6063 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6064 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6065 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6068 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6069 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6070 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6071 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6072 because the tests only now provoked it.
6078 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6079 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6080 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6081 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6082 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6083 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6084 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6086 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6087 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6090 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6092 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6094 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6095 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6098 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6099 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6100 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6101 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6102 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6104 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6105 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6107 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6109 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6111 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6114 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6115 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6117 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6118 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6119 affecting debugging statements).
6121 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6123 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6124 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6125 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6126 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6127 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6128 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6129 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6130 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6131 after the received time, and all would be well.
6133 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6134 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6135 condition in an expansion string.
6137 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6139 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6140 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6141 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6142 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6143 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6144 job under whatever limits there are.
6146 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6148 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6151 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6152 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6153 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6154 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6157 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6158 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6159 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6160 binary data in such strings.
6162 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6164 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6165 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6166 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6167 failure, which is pointless.
6169 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6171 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6173 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6174 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6175 Sender: header lines.
6177 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6178 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6179 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6181 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6182 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6183 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6184 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6185 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6188 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6189 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6190 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6191 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6192 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6194 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6195 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6196 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6199 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6200 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6202 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6203 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6205 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6207 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6209 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6211 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6214 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6216 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6218 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6219 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6220 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6221 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6223 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6224 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6230 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6231 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6232 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6234 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6235 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6236 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6237 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6238 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6239 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6241 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6242 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6243 verification failure".
6245 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6246 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6247 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6248 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6250 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6251 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6252 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6253 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6254 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6255 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6256 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6257 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6258 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6259 treated as a timeout.
6261 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6262 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6263 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6264 not set for Exim filters).
6266 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6267 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6268 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6270 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6272 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6273 try to make them clearer.
6275 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6276 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6278 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6280 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6282 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6283 only the Cygwin environment.
6285 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6286 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6287 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6288 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6289 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6291 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6292 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6293 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6294 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6295 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6296 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6297 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6299 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6300 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6302 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6304 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6305 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6306 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6308 To: susanne@some.where
6310 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6311 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6312 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6313 of addresses in From: header lines).
6315 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6316 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6317 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6319 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6320 treated as non-personal.
6322 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6323 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6325 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6327 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6329 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6330 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6331 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6333 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6334 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6336 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6337 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6338 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6339 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6340 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6341 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6343 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6344 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6345 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6346 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6347 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6348 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6349 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6350 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6352 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6354 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6355 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6357 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6358 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6359 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6361 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6362 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6364 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6365 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6366 rather than long int.
6368 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6370 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6376 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6377 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6378 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6379 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6380 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6381 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6387 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6388 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6390 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6391 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6392 socklen_t is defined.
6394 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6397 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6400 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6401 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6402 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6403 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6404 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6406 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6407 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6408 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6409 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6411 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6412 of flapping under certain conditions.
6414 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6415 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6416 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6418 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6420 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6422 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6423 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6424 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6425 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6427 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6428 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6429 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6430 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6431 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6432 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6433 preserved with the message after it was received.
6435 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6436 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6437 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6438 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6439 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6440 test suite worked just fine.
6442 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6443 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6444 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6446 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6447 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6450 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6451 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6452 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6453 does not fully solve it.
6455 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6456 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6457 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6458 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6459 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6461 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6462 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6463 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6465 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6466 string, for example:
6468 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6470 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6471 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6472 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6473 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6474 the routers could not see them.
6476 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6477 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6479 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6480 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6483 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6484 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6485 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6486 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6487 that needed quoting.
6489 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6490 was not being matched caselessly.
6492 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6495 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6496 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6497 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6498 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6499 when use_sender is false.
6501 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6503 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6505 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6507 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6508 the configuration file.
6510 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6511 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6513 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6515 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6516 bytes in the message body.
6518 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6519 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6522 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6524 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6526 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6527 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6528 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6529 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6536 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6537 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6539 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6540 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6541 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6542 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6543 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6545 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6546 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6548 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6549 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6550 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6552 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6553 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6554 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6556 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6559 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6560 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6561 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6562 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6563 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6564 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6565 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6571 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6572 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6573 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6574 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6575 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6576 default (and expected) setting.
6578 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6579 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6580 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6581 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6583 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6584 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6586 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6589 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6590 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6591 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6592 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6593 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6594 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6596 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6597 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6598 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6600 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6601 part (NOT match_host).
6603 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6605 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6606 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6607 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6608 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6609 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6610 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6611 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6612 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6613 the same named file.
6615 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6616 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6619 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6620 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6621 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6622 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6625 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6626 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6627 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6629 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6631 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6633 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6635 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6636 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6638 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6639 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6640 before starting the TLS session.
6642 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6644 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6645 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6647 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6648 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6649 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6650 colon in the middle).
6656 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6657 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6658 multiple configurations are in use.
6660 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6661 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6662 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6663 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6664 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6665 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6667 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6668 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6670 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6671 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6672 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6674 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6675 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6678 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6679 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6681 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6683 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6684 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6686 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6694 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6695 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6696 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6697 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6698 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6700 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6703 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6704 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6705 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6706 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6707 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6708 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6710 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6711 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6712 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6713 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6714 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6715 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6716 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6719 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6720 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6721 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6722 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6723 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6725 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6727 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6728 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6729 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6731 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6733 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6734 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6735 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6738 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6739 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6741 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6742 Three changes have been made:
6744 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6745 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6746 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6747 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6748 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6750 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6753 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6754 the modified behaviour.
6760 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6763 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6764 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6766 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6767 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6768 try to track down a specific problem.
6770 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6771 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6772 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6774 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6777 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6778 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6779 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6780 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6781 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6782 some earlier ones do not.
6784 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6786 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6787 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6788 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6789 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6790 address literals are enabled, of course).
6792 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6794 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6795 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6796 by a command such as
6800 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6802 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6804 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6805 remained set. It is now erased.
6807 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6808 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6810 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6811 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6812 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6813 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6814 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6815 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6816 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6817 appropriate error code.
6819 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6820 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6821 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6822 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6823 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6824 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6826 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6827 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6828 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6830 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6831 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6832 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6833 terminate the header.
6835 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6836 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6837 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6839 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6840 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6841 (4.30/29). In particular:
6843 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6846 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6847 to write a maildirsize file.
6849 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6850 the transport, the new value overrides.
6852 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6855 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6856 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6857 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6860 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6861 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6862 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6865 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6866 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6867 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6869 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6870 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6873 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6874 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6875 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6877 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6879 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6881 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6883 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6884 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6887 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6888 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6889 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6890 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6891 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6892 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6893 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6896 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6897 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6898 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6899 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6900 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6903 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6904 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6905 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6906 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6907 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6908 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6909 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6910 cached value only when the same options are set.
6912 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6914 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6915 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6916 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6917 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6918 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6920 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6921 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6922 it is clearly obsolete.
6924 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6927 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6928 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6929 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6932 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6933 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6934 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6935 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6936 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6938 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6939 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6940 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6941 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6943 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6945 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6947 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6948 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6951 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6952 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6953 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6954 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6955 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6956 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6959 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6960 with the -f command-line option.
6962 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6963 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6964 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6965 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6966 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6967 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6969 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6970 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6973 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6974 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6975 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6976 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6977 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6978 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6979 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6980 buffer is too small.
6982 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6983 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6985 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6986 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6987 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6988 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6989 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6990 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6991 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6992 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6993 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6995 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6996 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6997 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6999 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7000 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7003 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7004 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7005 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7006 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7007 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7009 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7010 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7011 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7012 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7015 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7017 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7019 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7020 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7022 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7023 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7024 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7026 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7027 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7028 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7029 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7030 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7032 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7033 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7034 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7035 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7036 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7037 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7038 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7040 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7041 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7042 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7043 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7044 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7045 the test of how many are available.
7047 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7048 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7049 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7050 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7051 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7052 new message is started.
7054 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7055 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7057 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7058 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7060 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7061 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7062 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7065 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7066 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7067 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7068 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7069 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7070 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7071 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7073 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7074 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7075 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7076 interpreted as octal.
7078 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7081 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7082 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7083 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7084 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7085 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7086 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7088 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7089 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7090 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7091 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7093 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7094 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7095 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7096 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7098 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7099 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7102 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7103 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7105 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7107 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7108 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7109 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7110 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7112 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7113 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7114 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7115 supplied", which is not helpful.
7117 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7118 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7119 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7121 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7122 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7123 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7124 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7125 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7126 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7127 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7128 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7130 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7131 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7132 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7133 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7134 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7136 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7137 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7138 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7139 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7140 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7141 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7143 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7144 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7145 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7147 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7149 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7150 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7151 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7154 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7156 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7157 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7158 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7159 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7160 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7161 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7162 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7163 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7165 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7166 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7167 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7168 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7169 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7171 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7174 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7175 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7176 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7177 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7178 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7179 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7180 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7181 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7182 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7188 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7189 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7190 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7192 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7195 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7196 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7197 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7199 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7200 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7201 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7202 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7203 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7204 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7206 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7207 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7208 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7209 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7210 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7211 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7212 the Exim test suite.
7214 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7215 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7216 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7217 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7219 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7220 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7221 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7222 specify it in this variable.
7224 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7225 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7226 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7227 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7229 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7230 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7231 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7232 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7234 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7235 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7236 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7237 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7238 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7240 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7242 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7245 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7246 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7247 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7248 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7249 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7251 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7252 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7254 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7255 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7256 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7257 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7258 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7260 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7261 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7263 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7264 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7265 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7267 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7268 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7270 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7271 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7273 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7274 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7275 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7277 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7278 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7280 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7281 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7282 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7283 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7285 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7287 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7288 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7289 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7290 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7292 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7294 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7295 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7297 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7299 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7300 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7301 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7302 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7303 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7304 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7306 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7308 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7309 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7312 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7314 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7315 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7317 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7318 550 Sender verify failed
7320 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7321 the final line of the response.
7323 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7324 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7325 all other user lookups.
7327 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7330 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7331 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7332 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7333 result into an int without checking.
7335 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7336 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7337 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7339 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7340 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7341 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7342 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7344 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7347 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7348 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7350 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7351 to the empty sender.
7353 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7354 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7355 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7356 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7357 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7358 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7359 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7362 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7363 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7364 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7365 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7368 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7369 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7371 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7374 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7375 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7377 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7379 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7380 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7383 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7384 as soon as it is encountered.
7386 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7388 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7391 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7392 recognizes a tab character.
7394 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7395 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7396 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7397 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7399 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7401 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7404 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7406 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7408 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7409 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7412 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7413 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7414 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7415 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7416 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7418 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7419 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7421 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7422 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7423 list (.included file names were always shown).
7425 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7426 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7427 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7430 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7431 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7433 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7435 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7437 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7439 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7440 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7441 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7442 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7443 failures to open the logs.
7445 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7446 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7447 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7448 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7449 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7450 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7451 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7457 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7458 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7459 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7462 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7463 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7464 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7466 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7467 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7468 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7470 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7471 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7472 causing some misleading effects.
7474 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7475 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7476 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7478 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7479 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7480 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7481 queue-runner function directly.
7487 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7490 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7491 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7492 was always written to the default place.
7494 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7495 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7496 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7498 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7500 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7502 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7503 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7504 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7506 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7507 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7510 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7511 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7512 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7514 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7515 command line option is disabled.
7517 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7518 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7520 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7522 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7524 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7525 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7527 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7529 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7530 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7531 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7532 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7533 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7534 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7536 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7537 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7540 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7541 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7543 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7544 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7546 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7547 received was valid base64.
7549 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7550 name of the variable that was being set.
7552 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7554 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7555 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7556 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7557 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7558 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7559 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7561 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7563 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7564 nor realm was specified.
7566 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7567 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7568 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7569 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7571 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7572 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7573 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7575 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7576 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7577 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7579 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7580 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7581 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7582 some systems use these upper case variants.
7584 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7585 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7586 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7587 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7589 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7591 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7592 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7594 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7595 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7598 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7600 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7601 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7602 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7603 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7605 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7608 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7609 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7610 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7612 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7613 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7615 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7616 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7617 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7618 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7620 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7621 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7622 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7624 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7626 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7627 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7628 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7629 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7632 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7633 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7634 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7636 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7638 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7639 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7641 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7642 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7644 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7645 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7646 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7647 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7648 when emails are that large.
7655 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7656 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7658 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7659 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7660 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7662 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7663 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7664 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7666 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7667 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7668 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7669 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7670 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7672 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7673 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7674 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7675 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7676 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7679 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7680 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7681 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7682 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7683 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7684 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7685 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7686 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7687 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7688 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7689 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7690 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7691 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7692 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7694 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7695 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7698 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7699 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7700 error should be diagnosed.
7702 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7703 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7704 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7705 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7706 appeared instead of "NULL".
7708 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7709 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7710 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7711 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7712 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7713 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7716 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7717 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7718 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7724 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7725 or receiver verification errors.
7727 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7730 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7731 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7732 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7733 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7735 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7736 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7737 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7738 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7739 shouldn't happen again.
7741 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7742 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7743 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7745 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7746 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7748 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7750 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7751 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7753 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7754 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7757 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7758 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7759 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7761 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7762 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7763 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7764 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7766 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7767 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7768 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7769 to define what should happen).
7771 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7772 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7773 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7775 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7777 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7779 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7780 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7782 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7783 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7784 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7785 structure in all cases.
7787 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7788 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7789 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7790 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7792 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7793 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7796 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7797 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7799 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7800 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7802 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7803 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7804 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7806 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7807 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7808 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7810 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7811 the book and for uniformity.
7813 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7815 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7816 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7817 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7818 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7819 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7820 non-existent command as the problem.
7822 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7823 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7824 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7826 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7828 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7829 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7830 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7832 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7833 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7834 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7835 timestamps using strftime().
7837 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7838 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7840 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7841 transport-time rewrites.
7843 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7844 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7845 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7846 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7848 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7849 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7851 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7852 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7853 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7854 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7857 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7858 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7859 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7860 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7861 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7862 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7863 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7865 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7866 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7867 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7868 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7869 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7871 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7872 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7873 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7874 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7875 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7876 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7877 remaining text gets split now.
7879 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7880 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7881 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7882 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7884 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7885 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7886 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7887 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7890 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7891 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7892 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7893 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7894 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7895 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7896 passed through if needed.
7898 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7899 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7900 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7901 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7902 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7903 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7905 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7906 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7907 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7908 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7909 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7911 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7912 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7913 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7914 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7915 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7917 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7918 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7921 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7922 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7923 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7924 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7925 mayhem of various kinds.
7927 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7928 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7929 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7930 the right test for positive values.
7932 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7933 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7934 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7935 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7936 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7937 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7938 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7939 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7940 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7941 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7944 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7947 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7948 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7951 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7952 the existing equality matching.
7954 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7955 dealing with inode numbers.
7957 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7958 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7959 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7961 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7962 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7963 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7964 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7967 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7968 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7969 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7970 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7971 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7972 relay addresses has also been removed.
7974 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7976 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7977 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7978 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7980 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7981 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7982 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7983 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7984 processing applies to CR:
7986 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7987 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7989 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7990 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7991 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7992 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7994 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7995 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7996 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7998 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7999 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8000 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8001 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8002 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8003 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8006 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8009 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8010 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8011 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8012 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8015 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8017 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8019 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8021 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8022 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8023 not considered personal.
8025 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8027 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8029 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8031 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8032 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8033 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8034 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8035 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8036 header lines, and spool format errors.
8038 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8039 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8040 for more flexibility.
8042 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8043 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8044 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8046 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8049 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8050 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8051 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8052 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8053 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8054 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8055 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8056 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8057 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8059 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8060 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8061 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8062 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8063 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8064 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8065 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8067 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8068 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8069 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8071 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8072 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8073 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8074 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8075 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8076 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8077 instead of killing the process with assert().
8079 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8080 than Unicode encoding.
8082 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8083 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8084 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8085 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8087 77. Added process_log_path.
8089 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8090 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8092 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8093 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8095 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8096 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8097 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8099 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8100 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8101 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8102 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8103 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8106 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8107 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8110 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8111 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8112 they will be used during message reception.
8118 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.