1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
14 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
17 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
21 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
25 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
32 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
35 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
43 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
46 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
49 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
52 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
55 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
62 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
64 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
69 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
71 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
76 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
78 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
80 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
81 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
82 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
84 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
85 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
86 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
88 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
90 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
91 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
92 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
93 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
95 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
96 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
97 promised '?' replacement.
99 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
101 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
102 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
103 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
104 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
105 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
107 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
108 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
109 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
111 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
112 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
113 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
115 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
116 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
117 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
119 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
120 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
121 hope that is portable enough.
123 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
124 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
125 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
126 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
128 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
129 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
130 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
132 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
133 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
134 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
135 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
137 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
138 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
140 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
141 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
142 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
143 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
145 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
146 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
147 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
149 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
150 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
151 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
152 the previous G, M, k.
158 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
159 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
160 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
161 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
162 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
163 be defined in redis_servers.
165 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
166 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
168 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
169 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
170 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
171 extant use locations.
173 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
174 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
176 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
177 Previously only the last row was returned.
179 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
180 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
181 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
182 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
185 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
186 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
187 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
188 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
189 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
190 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
191 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
192 Main pool for expansions.
193 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
194 active in the testsuite.
195 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
197 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
198 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
199 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
200 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
203 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
204 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
207 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
208 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
209 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
211 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
212 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
213 ClamAV interface method is removed.
215 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
216 rows affected is given instead).
218 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
219 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
221 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
222 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
223 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
224 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
225 for all multi-message initiating connections.
227 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
228 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
229 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
231 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
232 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
233 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
234 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
237 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
238 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
239 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
242 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
244 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
245 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
247 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
248 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
249 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
251 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
252 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
253 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
256 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
257 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
259 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
260 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
261 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
263 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
264 for the build is renamed.
266 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
267 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
268 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
270 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
271 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
272 result replacing the original.
274 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
275 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
276 and the resources needed to be freed.
278 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
280 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
283 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
284 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
285 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
286 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
288 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
289 length value. Previously this would segfault.
291 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
292 newer versions of the scanner.
294 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
295 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
296 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
297 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
298 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
299 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
300 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
302 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
303 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
304 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
305 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
306 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
307 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
308 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
309 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
310 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
311 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
313 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
314 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
316 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
318 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
319 allows proper process termination in container environments.
321 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
322 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
324 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
325 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
326 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
328 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
329 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
330 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
331 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
333 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
334 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
337 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
338 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
340 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
341 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
342 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
343 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
344 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
346 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
347 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
350 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
351 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
353 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
356 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
357 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
358 "bare" representation.
360 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
361 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
362 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
363 corrupted the output.
369 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
370 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
371 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
372 pairs of long lines into single ones.
374 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
375 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
377 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
378 This permits better logging.
380 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
381 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
382 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
383 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
384 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
385 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
387 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
388 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
391 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
392 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
393 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
395 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
396 than 255 are no longer allowed.
398 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
399 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
400 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
401 client, there is no benefit for these.
402 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
403 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
404 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
407 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
408 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
410 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
411 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
412 erroneously found still-pending ones.
414 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
415 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
417 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
418 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
419 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
420 signature and again for transmission.
422 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
423 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
424 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
426 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
427 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
428 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
429 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
430 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
431 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
432 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
434 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
435 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
436 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
437 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
439 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
440 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
441 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
442 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
443 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
444 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
447 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
448 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
449 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
450 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
453 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
454 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
455 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
456 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
459 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
460 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
463 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
464 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
465 banner-time rejection.
467 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
470 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
471 is the name of a transport.
474 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
476 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
477 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
479 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
480 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
481 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
484 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
485 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
486 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
487 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
489 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
490 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
491 initial verify call returned a defer.
493 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
494 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
496 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
497 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
499 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
500 if present. Previously it was ignored.
502 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
503 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
505 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
506 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
509 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
510 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
512 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
513 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
514 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
516 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
517 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
518 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
519 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
521 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
522 and confused the parent.
524 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
525 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
527 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
530 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
531 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
532 out-of-order delivery.
534 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
535 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
536 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
539 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
540 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
543 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
544 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
545 one run was done. Bug 2189.
547 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
548 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
549 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
550 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
551 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
552 message is still "Temporary local problem".
554 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
555 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
556 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
558 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
559 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
560 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
562 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
563 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
564 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
565 though a different problem.
571 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
572 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
574 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
576 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
577 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
579 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
580 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
582 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
583 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
584 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
585 before acknowledging the chunk.
587 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
588 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
589 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
591 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
592 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
593 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
596 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
597 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
598 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
600 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
601 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
603 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
604 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
605 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
606 body hash calculated value.
608 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
609 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
610 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
612 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
614 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
615 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
617 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
618 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
619 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
621 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
622 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
623 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
624 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
625 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
626 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
628 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
629 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
630 past that check, despite the cost.
632 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
633 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
634 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
636 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
637 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
638 TLS library to consume.
640 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
642 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
644 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
645 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
646 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
647 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
648 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
649 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
650 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
652 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
654 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
656 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
657 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
658 should be warning-free.
660 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
662 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
663 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
665 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
666 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
667 general solution here.
669 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
670 already-broken messages in the queue.
672 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
674 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
680 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
681 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
683 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
684 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
685 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
687 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
688 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
689 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
690 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
691 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
692 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
693 if one fails this test.
694 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
695 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
697 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
698 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
700 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
701 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
703 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
704 in rewrites and routers.
706 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
707 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
709 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
710 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
712 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
714 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
717 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
718 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
719 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
720 connection after a verify cache hit.
721 Do not update it with the verify result either.
723 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
724 when routing results in more than one destination address.
726 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
727 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
728 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
729 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
730 when the cutthrough connection is made).
732 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
733 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
735 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
736 Previously they were not counted.
738 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
739 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
740 that needed the lookup.
742 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
743 distinguished as "(=".
745 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
746 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
748 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
750 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
751 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
753 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
754 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
756 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
757 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
760 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
761 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
762 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
763 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
765 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
767 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
768 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
769 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
771 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
772 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
773 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
776 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
777 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
778 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
781 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
782 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
783 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
785 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
786 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
789 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
791 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
792 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
794 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
795 are not in the system include path.
797 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
798 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
799 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
800 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
802 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
803 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
804 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
806 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
808 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
809 an incoming connection.
811 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
814 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
815 fallback to "prime256v1".
817 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
818 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
824 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
825 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
826 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
827 client dropping the TLS connection.
829 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
830 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
832 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
833 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
834 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
835 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
838 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
839 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
840 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
841 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
842 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
843 check on the next write.
845 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
846 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
847 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
848 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
849 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
851 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
852 mime_regex ACL conditions.
854 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
855 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
856 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
858 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
859 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
860 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
861 an authenticate fail is not an error.
863 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
864 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
866 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
867 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
869 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
870 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
871 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
874 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
876 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
878 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
880 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
881 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
883 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
884 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
886 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
888 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
889 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
891 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
893 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
894 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
896 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
898 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
899 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
900 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
901 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
902 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
903 they will retry in-clear.
904 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
905 at installation time.
907 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
908 with the $config_file variable.
910 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
911 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
912 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
913 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
914 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
916 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
917 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
918 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
919 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
920 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
922 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
924 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
925 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
926 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
927 list order is no longer honoured.
929 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
932 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
933 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
935 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
936 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
937 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
938 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
940 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
941 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
943 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
944 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
946 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
947 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
949 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
951 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
952 cached by the daemon.
954 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
955 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
957 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
958 keys are given for lookup.
960 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
961 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
962 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
963 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
965 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
966 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
967 server-side so match that on older versions.
969 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
970 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
971 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
973 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
974 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
976 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
977 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
978 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
979 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
980 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
981 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
982 initial truncated version.
984 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
986 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
988 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
989 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
991 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
993 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
995 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
996 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
999 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1000 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1003 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1004 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1006 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1007 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1010 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1011 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1012 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1014 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1015 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1016 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1017 extraction. Accept either.
1023 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1026 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1028 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1031 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1032 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1033 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1034 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1036 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1037 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1038 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1040 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1041 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1042 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1045 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1048 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1049 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1050 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1051 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1052 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1054 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1055 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1056 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1058 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1060 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1061 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1063 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1064 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1066 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1069 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1070 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1072 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1073 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1074 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1076 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1077 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1078 specify a port-range.
1080 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1081 timeout value per server.
1083 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1084 now have the list separator specified.
1086 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1089 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1092 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1094 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1095 rather than the verbs used.
1097 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1098 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1100 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1102 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1103 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1105 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1106 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1108 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1109 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1111 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1113 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1115 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1116 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1117 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1118 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1120 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1122 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1123 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1125 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1126 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1128 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1130 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1132 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1134 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1135 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1137 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1138 added for tls authenticator.
1140 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1146 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1147 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1148 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1149 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1150 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1151 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1152 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1154 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1155 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1156 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1157 function when detected.
1159 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1160 cause callback expansion.
1162 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1163 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1164 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1165 instead of bool when processing it.
1167 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1168 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1170 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1172 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1174 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1176 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1177 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1179 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1180 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1181 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1182 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1183 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1184 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1186 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1187 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1190 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1191 version 3.3.6 or later.
1193 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1194 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1195 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1196 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1197 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1198 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1201 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1202 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1204 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1205 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1206 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1209 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1210 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1211 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1213 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1214 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1216 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1217 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1220 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1222 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1223 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1225 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1226 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1229 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1231 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1234 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1235 output list separator was used.
1240 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1241 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1244 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1245 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1247 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1249 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1250 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1256 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1258 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1259 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1260 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1261 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1262 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1263 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1265 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1266 utilities have not been installed.
1268 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1269 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1271 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1272 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1274 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1275 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1276 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1277 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1279 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1281 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1282 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1284 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1287 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1289 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1290 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1291 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1293 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1294 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1295 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1296 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1297 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1298 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1300 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1302 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1303 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1305 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1308 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1310 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1312 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1313 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1315 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1316 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1318 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1320 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1322 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1323 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1325 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1326 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1327 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1329 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1330 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1331 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1334 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1336 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1337 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1340 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1341 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1344 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1345 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1347 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1348 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1350 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1352 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1353 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1354 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1356 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1357 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1359 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1360 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1363 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1364 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1365 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1367 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1369 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1370 Christian Aistleitner.
1372 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1374 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1375 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1377 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1378 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1380 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1381 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1383 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1384 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1386 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1387 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1389 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1390 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1391 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1393 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1395 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1396 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1399 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1401 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1402 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1409 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1411 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1412 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1414 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1417 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1418 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1421 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1423 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1424 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1425 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1426 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1427 using channel bindings instead).
1429 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1430 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1431 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1432 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1433 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1436 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1438 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1440 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1441 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1443 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1444 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1445 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1447 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1449 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1451 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1452 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1454 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1456 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1458 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1460 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1461 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1463 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1465 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1466 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1469 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1470 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1472 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1473 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1476 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1478 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1480 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1481 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1483 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1486 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1487 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1489 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1490 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1492 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1494 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1496 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1499 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1502 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1504 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1505 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1506 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1507 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1509 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1511 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1512 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1513 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1514 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1517 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1518 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1519 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1521 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1522 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1523 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1524 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1526 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1527 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1528 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1529 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1530 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1531 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1532 delivery, as in LMTP.
1534 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1535 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1537 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1539 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1543 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1544 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1545 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1546 username as equal to the username.
1548 This change corrects that bug.
1550 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1551 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1552 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1554 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1556 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1557 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1558 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1559 NULL dereference and crash.
1561 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1563 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1564 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1565 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1567 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1569 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1570 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1571 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1572 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1573 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1574 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1575 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1576 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1577 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1578 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1579 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1581 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1582 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1584 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1585 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1588 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1589 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1590 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1591 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1592 an empty string is now equivalent.
1594 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1595 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1596 not performing validation itself.
1598 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1599 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1601 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1604 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1606 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1607 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1608 other false fix of the same issue.
1609 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1612 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1613 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1615 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1616 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1617 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1619 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1620 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1621 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1623 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1625 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1627 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1628 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1630 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1633 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1634 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1635 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1636 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1637 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1639 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1640 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1642 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1643 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1646 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1647 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1648 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1649 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1651 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1653 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1654 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1655 from multiple comments on this bug.
1657 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1659 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1660 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1663 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1664 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1666 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1667 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1673 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1675 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1681 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1682 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1683 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1685 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1687 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1690 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1692 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1694 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1696 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1697 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1699 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1700 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1702 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1703 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1705 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1706 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1707 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1709 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1711 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1712 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1714 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1716 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1718 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1719 non-compliant senders.
1720 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1722 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1723 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1724 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1726 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1727 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1728 in spool file corruption.
1730 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1731 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1732 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1735 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1736 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1737 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1739 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1740 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1742 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1744 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1746 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1748 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1749 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1750 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1752 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1753 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1754 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1755 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1757 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1758 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1760 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1761 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1762 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1763 resolver implementation change.
1765 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1766 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1768 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1770 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1772 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1773 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1775 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1776 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1778 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1779 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1781 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1782 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1783 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1784 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1785 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1787 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1789 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1790 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1791 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1793 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1795 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1796 read-only, out of scope).
1797 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1799 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1800 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1801 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1802 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1804 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1806 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1807 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1808 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1809 real issues in debug logging.
1811 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1812 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1814 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1815 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1816 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1818 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1819 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1820 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1823 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1824 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1826 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1827 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1828 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1829 needs to override this, it can.
1831 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1832 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1833 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1835 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1836 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1837 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1838 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1840 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1846 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1847 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1849 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1851 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1854 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1855 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1857 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1858 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1859 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1861 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1862 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1863 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1864 not safe for signals.
1866 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1867 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1868 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1869 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1872 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1874 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1875 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1876 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1877 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1878 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1880 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1881 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1882 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1883 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1884 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1885 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1887 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1888 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1889 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1890 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1892 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1893 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1894 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1895 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1897 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1898 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1899 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1900 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1901 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1902 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1903 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1904 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1905 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1907 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1908 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1909 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1910 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1912 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1913 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1914 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1915 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1916 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1917 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1918 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1919 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1920 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1921 details in the main documentation.
1923 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1925 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1927 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1928 repository when doing development or release builds.
1930 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1931 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1933 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1934 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1937 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1939 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1940 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1942 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1943 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1945 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1946 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1948 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1949 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1951 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1952 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1954 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1956 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1959 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1960 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1961 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1963 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1965 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1967 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1968 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1974 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1976 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1977 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1979 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1981 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1983 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1986 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1987 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1989 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1990 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1992 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1993 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1995 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1998 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1999 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2001 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2002 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2003 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2004 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2006 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2007 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2013 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2016 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2017 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2018 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2020 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2021 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2023 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2024 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2025 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2027 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2028 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2030 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2031 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2033 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2034 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2036 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2037 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2039 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2040 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2042 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2045 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2046 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2048 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2049 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2051 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2052 SQL string expansion failure details.
2053 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2055 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2056 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2058 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2059 extern declarations in function scope.
2060 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2062 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2063 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2064 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2067 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2068 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2070 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2071 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2073 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2074 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2076 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2077 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2079 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2080 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2083 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2085 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2087 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2088 Patch by Simon Arlott
2090 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2091 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2097 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2098 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2100 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2101 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2103 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2105 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2106 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2107 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2109 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2110 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2111 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2113 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2114 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2115 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2116 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2118 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2119 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2120 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2121 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2123 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2124 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2125 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2128 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2131 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2132 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2133 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2134 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2135 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2141 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2142 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2143 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2145 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2146 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2148 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2150 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2152 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2154 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2156 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2158 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2159 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2160 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2161 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2163 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2164 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2165 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2166 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2167 more caution in buffer sizes.
2169 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2171 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2173 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2175 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2177 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2179 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2181 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2183 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2184 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2185 ignore trailing whitespace.
2187 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2189 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2192 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2193 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2195 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2196 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2197 Notification from John Horne.
2199 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2202 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2203 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2206 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2209 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2210 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2211 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2213 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2214 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2215 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2218 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2219 option (effectively making it always true).
2221 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2222 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2224 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2225 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2227 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2228 run-time user, instead of root.
2230 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2231 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2233 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2234 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2237 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2238 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2239 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2241 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2243 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2249 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2250 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2253 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2254 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2257 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2258 Patch from Alain Williams
2260 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2262 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2263 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2265 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2266 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2268 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2270 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2272 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2273 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2275 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2277 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2279 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2280 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2281 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2283 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2284 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2286 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2287 Patch by Simon Arlott
2289 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2290 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2296 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2298 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2300 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2302 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2304 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2310 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2311 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2313 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2314 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2317 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2318 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2319 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2321 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2322 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2324 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2325 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2326 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2327 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2329 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2330 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2331 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2333 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2335 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2337 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2338 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2340 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2342 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2343 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2344 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2345 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2347 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2348 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2350 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2352 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2354 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2355 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2357 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2358 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2360 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2361 that they are available at delivery time.
2363 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2365 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2366 incoming_port log selectors.
2368 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2369 setting expands to an empty string.
2371 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2372 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2374 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2375 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2377 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2378 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2380 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2381 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2383 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2384 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2386 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2387 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2389 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2391 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2392 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2394 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2395 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2397 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2399 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2400 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2402 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2404 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2406 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2409 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2410 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2412 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2413 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2415 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2416 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2418 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2419 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2421 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2422 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2424 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2425 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2427 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2428 plus update to original patch.
2430 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2432 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2433 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2435 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2437 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2439 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2441 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2443 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2444 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2446 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2447 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2449 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2450 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2452 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2453 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2455 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2457 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2459 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2461 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2467 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2468 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2469 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2471 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2472 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2473 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2474 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2475 build errors in sieve.c.
2477 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2478 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2479 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2481 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2483 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2485 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2487 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2493 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2495 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2496 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2497 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2498 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2499 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2500 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2501 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2502 for iplsearch lookups.
2504 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2505 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2506 previously such lookups could never work.
2508 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2509 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2510 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2512 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2515 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2516 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2517 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2518 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2519 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2520 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2522 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2523 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2525 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2526 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2527 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2528 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2529 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2530 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2532 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2535 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2537 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2538 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2541 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2542 by clients under certain conditions.
2544 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2545 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2547 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2549 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2550 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2552 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2554 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2556 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2558 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2559 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2561 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2563 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2564 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2566 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2568 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2570 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2571 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2572 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2573 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2575 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2576 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2577 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2579 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2580 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2582 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2584 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2586 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2588 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2589 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2590 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2596 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2597 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2600 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2601 issue a MAIL command.
2603 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2605 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2607 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2608 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2609 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2610 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2611 item. This has been fixed.
2613 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2614 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2616 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2617 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2619 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2620 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2621 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2623 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2625 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2626 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2627 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2628 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2629 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2631 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2632 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2633 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2635 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2636 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2637 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2638 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2640 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2642 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2644 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2645 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2646 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2647 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2648 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2650 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2652 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2653 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2654 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2657 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2659 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2661 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2663 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2665 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2667 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2668 no_callout_flush is set.
2670 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2671 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2672 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2675 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2677 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2678 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2679 other ACL rejections are.
2681 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2682 with slight modification.
2684 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2685 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2687 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2688 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2691 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2692 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2694 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2696 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2697 expansion side effects.
2699 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2700 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2701 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2704 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2705 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2706 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2708 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2709 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2710 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2711 were accidentally chopped off.
2713 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2714 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2715 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2716 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2717 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2718 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2719 pipelining has not been advertised.
2721 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2723 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2724 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2725 This has been fixed.
2727 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2728 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2729 reported on Solaris.
2731 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2732 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2733 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2734 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2735 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2736 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2737 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2739 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2742 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2744 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2746 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2747 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2748 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2749 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2750 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2751 criteria to be more general.
2753 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2754 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2755 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2756 host_all_ignored option.
2758 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2759 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2760 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2761 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2762 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2763 is what is supposed to happen).
2765 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2766 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2767 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2768 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2769 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2772 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2773 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2774 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2775 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2776 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2777 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2780 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2782 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2783 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2785 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2786 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2788 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2790 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2792 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2793 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2794 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2795 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2796 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2797 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2798 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2799 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2800 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2801 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2802 least in a lot of common cases.
2804 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2805 advertised in response to EHLO.
2811 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2812 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2814 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2815 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2817 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2818 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2819 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2821 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2822 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2823 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2824 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2825 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2831 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2832 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2835 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2836 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2837 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2839 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2840 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2841 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2842 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2843 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2844 rather than extend the field.
2850 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2851 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2852 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2853 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2856 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2857 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2858 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2860 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2861 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2862 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2864 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2865 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2866 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2869 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2870 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2871 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2872 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2873 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2874 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2875 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2876 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2877 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2878 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2879 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2881 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2884 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2885 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2886 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2887 ignores EPIPE as well.
2889 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2890 (quoted-printable decoding).
2892 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2893 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2895 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2897 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2899 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2901 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2902 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2904 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2907 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2908 miscellaneous code fixes
2910 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2913 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2914 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2915 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2916 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2917 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2918 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2919 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2920 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2922 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2923 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2924 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2925 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2927 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2928 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2929 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2930 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2931 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2932 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2933 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2934 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2935 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2937 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2940 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2941 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2942 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2943 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2944 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2945 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2946 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2947 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2949 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2950 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2953 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2954 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2955 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2956 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2957 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2958 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2959 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2960 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2961 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2962 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2963 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2964 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2965 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2967 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2968 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2969 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2970 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2971 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2972 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2973 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2975 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2976 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2977 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2978 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2979 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2980 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2981 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2982 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2983 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2984 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2986 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2987 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2988 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2989 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2990 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2992 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2993 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2994 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2995 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2996 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2997 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2998 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3000 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3001 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3002 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3003 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3004 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3005 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3008 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3009 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3010 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3013 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3014 if any retry times were supplied.
3016 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3017 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3018 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3020 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3022 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3024 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3025 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3026 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3027 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3028 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3029 before) are ignored.
3031 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3032 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3034 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3035 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3036 committing the later change.]
3038 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3039 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3040 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3041 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3042 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3043 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3044 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3045 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3046 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3048 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3049 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3050 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3051 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3052 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3053 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3054 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3055 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3056 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3058 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3059 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3060 hammering the server.
3062 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3063 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3065 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3067 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3068 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3069 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3071 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3072 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3073 one case where this was not true.
3075 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3076 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3077 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3078 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3081 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3082 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3083 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3084 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3085 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3086 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3087 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3088 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3089 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3092 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3093 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3094 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3095 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3097 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3098 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3100 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3101 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3102 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3104 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3106 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3108 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3110 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3111 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3112 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3113 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3115 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3116 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3118 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3119 be meaningful with "accept".
3121 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3122 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3124 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3125 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3126 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3128 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3129 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3130 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3131 there is data to show.
3132 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3134 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3135 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3136 as well as the number of messages.
3138 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3139 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3140 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3142 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3143 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3144 have a flag are now skipped.
3146 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3147 Added the -emptyok flag.
3149 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3150 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3152 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3153 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3154 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3156 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3159 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3160 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3162 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3164 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3165 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3167 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3169 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3170 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3171 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3172 contravention of the specifications.
3174 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3175 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3176 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3178 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3179 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3180 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3182 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3184 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3185 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3186 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3187 some point in the past.
3189 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3190 transport during callout processing was broken.
3192 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3193 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3195 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3196 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3198 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3199 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3201 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3207 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3208 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3210 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3211 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3212 there is data to show.
3213 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3215 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3216 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3218 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3219 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3221 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3222 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3224 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3225 submissions from trusted users.
3227 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3228 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3230 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3231 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3232 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3233 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3234 there is now a framework to start from.
3236 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3237 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3238 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3240 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3242 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3244 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3246 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3247 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3248 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3250 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3253 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3254 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3255 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3257 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3258 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3259 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3262 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3263 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3264 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3265 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3266 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3268 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3269 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3271 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3273 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3274 operations in malware.c.
3276 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3279 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3280 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3281 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3284 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3285 statements to "add_header".
3287 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3288 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3290 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3291 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3294 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3298 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3299 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3300 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3303 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3304 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3306 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3307 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3309 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3310 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3311 any possible encoding problems.
3313 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3314 but not after initializing Perl.
3316 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3317 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3318 apparently, which is not desirable.
3320 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3323 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3326 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3328 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3329 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3330 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3331 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3333 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3334 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3335 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3337 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3338 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3339 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3342 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3343 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3344 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3345 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3346 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3352 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3353 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3355 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3358 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3359 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3360 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3361 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3362 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3363 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3364 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3365 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3368 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3370 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3371 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3372 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3374 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3375 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3376 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3379 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3380 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3382 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3383 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3384 option (which defaults to 0600).
3386 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3388 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3389 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3390 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3391 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3392 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3393 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3394 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3396 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3402 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3403 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3404 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3405 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3406 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3407 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3410 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3411 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3413 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3415 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3416 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3417 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3418 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3419 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3422 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3423 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3425 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3426 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3427 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3428 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3429 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3431 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3432 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3433 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3434 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3436 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3437 be the same on different OS.
3439 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3442 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3443 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3445 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3448 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3449 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3450 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3451 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3452 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3453 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3456 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3457 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3458 when Exim was called.
3460 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3461 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3463 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3464 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3465 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3466 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3468 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3469 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3470 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3471 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3474 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3475 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3476 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3478 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3479 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3480 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3482 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3485 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3486 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3487 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3488 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3489 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3490 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3491 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3492 values from the SRV records were lost.
3494 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3495 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3496 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3498 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3499 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3500 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3502 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3503 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3504 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3505 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3506 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3507 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3508 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3509 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3510 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3511 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3513 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3514 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3515 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3517 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3518 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3520 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3521 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3522 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3523 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3526 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3527 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3528 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3530 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3531 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3532 PH/23 above applies.
3534 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3535 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3536 (for which there is an explicit test).
3538 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3540 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3541 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3542 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3543 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3544 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3546 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3547 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3548 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3549 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3551 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3552 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3553 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3555 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3557 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3559 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3560 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3561 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3563 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3564 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3565 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3566 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3567 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3569 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3570 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3571 the message gets confusing).
3573 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3574 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3575 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3576 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3578 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3579 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3580 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3581 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3584 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3585 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3586 the different processes.
3588 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3590 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3592 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3593 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3595 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3596 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3598 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3599 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3600 messages matching specified criteria.
3602 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3604 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3605 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3607 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3608 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3609 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3610 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3611 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3612 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3613 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3614 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3615 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3616 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3618 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3619 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3620 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3622 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3624 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3625 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3626 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3627 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3628 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3629 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3630 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3633 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3634 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3636 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3638 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3640 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3642 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3643 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3644 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3645 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3646 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3647 size of the count of files.
3649 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3651 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3654 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3655 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3656 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3657 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3659 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3660 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3661 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3663 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3664 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3665 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3666 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3667 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3669 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3670 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3672 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3673 will now be deprecated.
3675 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3677 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3678 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3679 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3681 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3682 with very large, slow to parse queues
3684 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3686 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3688 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3689 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3690 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3693 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3694 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3695 Sieve code now uses this.
3697 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3698 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3700 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3701 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3703 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3705 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3706 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3707 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3708 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3709 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3711 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3712 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3713 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3714 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3716 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3718 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3720 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3721 is preferred over IPv4.
3723 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3724 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3725 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3726 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3727 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3728 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3729 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3731 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3732 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3733 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3735 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3737 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3738 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3739 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3740 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3741 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3742 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3743 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3744 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3745 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3746 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3747 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3749 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3750 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3751 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3757 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3759 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3760 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3762 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3763 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3764 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3766 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3768 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3771 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3774 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3775 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3776 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3779 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3780 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3782 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3783 inside the third argument.
3785 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3786 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3789 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3790 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3792 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3793 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3795 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3797 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3798 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3801 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3803 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3804 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3805 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3806 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3807 identical. For example:
3809 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3811 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3812 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3813 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3815 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3816 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3817 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3818 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3820 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3821 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3822 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3825 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3827 o fixes some comments
3828 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3829 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3830 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3831 and documents the missing references header update
3835 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3836 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3839 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3840 Electronic Mail") by including:
3842 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3844 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3845 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3846 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3847 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3848 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3850 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3852 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3854 The auto-replied keyword:
3856 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3857 message by an automatic process,
3859 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3861 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3862 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3864 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3865 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3868 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3869 to the default Received: header definition.
3871 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3873 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3874 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3875 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3877 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3878 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3879 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3881 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3882 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3883 and treats the condition as false.
3885 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3887 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3888 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3889 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3890 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3891 not changing the active code.
3893 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3894 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3896 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3897 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3899 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3902 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3903 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3904 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3905 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3906 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3907 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3908 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3909 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3910 the text comparison.
3912 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3913 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3914 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3915 The same fix has been applied.
3921 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3922 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3925 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3926 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3928 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3930 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3931 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3932 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3933 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3934 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3936 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3937 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3938 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3939 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3942 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3950 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3951 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3953 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3955 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3957 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3958 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3959 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3961 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3962 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3963 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3965 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3966 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3969 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3970 ${stat: expansion item.
3972 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3973 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3975 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3976 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3979 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3981 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3984 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3985 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3987 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3989 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3990 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3991 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3992 the end of the subprocess.
3994 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3995 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3996 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3997 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3998 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4000 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4002 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4004 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4005 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4007 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4009 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4011 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4012 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4015 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4017 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4018 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4019 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4021 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4022 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4024 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4025 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4027 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4028 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4030 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4031 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4033 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4034 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4035 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4036 contributed by a Radius user.
4038 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4039 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4041 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4042 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4044 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4047 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4048 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4051 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4052 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4053 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4054 header lines when this was not necessary.
4056 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4058 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4059 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4060 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4063 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4066 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4067 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4068 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4069 return code was incorrect.
4071 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4073 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4075 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4077 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4079 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4080 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4081 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4082 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4083 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4086 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4088 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4089 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4090 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4091 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4092 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4093 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4094 which is clearly wrong.
4096 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4098 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4099 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4100 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4103 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4104 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4106 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4108 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4109 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4111 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4112 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4114 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4115 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4117 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4118 recipients, not senders.
4120 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4121 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4123 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4125 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4127 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4128 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4129 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4130 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4132 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4134 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4135 clock is set back in time.
4137 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4138 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4140 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4141 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4143 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4144 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4147 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4148 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4151 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4154 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4156 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4157 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4158 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4160 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4161 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4162 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4163 helo verification defer as a failure.
4165 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4166 actual error message.
4172 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4174 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4175 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4176 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4177 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4179 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4181 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4182 can still be requested.
4184 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4185 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4186 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4187 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4189 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4190 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4191 circumstances, but probably never did.
4193 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4194 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4195 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4198 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4200 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4201 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4203 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4205 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4207 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4208 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4209 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4210 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4211 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4212 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4214 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4215 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4216 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4217 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4218 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4219 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4221 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4222 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4224 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4225 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4227 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4228 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4230 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4232 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4234 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4236 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4238 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4240 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4242 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4244 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4245 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4246 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4248 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4249 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4250 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4251 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4253 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4254 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4255 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4257 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4258 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4259 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4260 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4262 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4263 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4266 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4267 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4268 should work with maildirs and everything.
4270 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4271 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4273 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4276 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4277 function for BDB 4.3.
4279 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4281 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4282 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4285 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4286 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4287 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4288 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4289 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4290 formatting function string_vformat().
4292 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4293 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4294 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4295 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4296 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4297 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4298 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4299 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4301 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4302 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4305 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4306 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4308 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4309 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4310 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4311 test. It is now used for both.
4313 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4314 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4315 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4316 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4317 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4318 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4320 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4321 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4322 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4325 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4326 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4327 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4329 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4330 experimental DomainKeys support:
4332 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4333 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4334 the control was given.
4336 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4338 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4340 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4342 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4343 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4344 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4347 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4348 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4349 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4350 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4351 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4352 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4355 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4356 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4357 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4358 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4359 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4360 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4362 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4363 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4364 do -d+all out of habit.
4366 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4367 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4370 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4371 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4372 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4373 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4374 record types that Exim uses.
4376 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4377 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4378 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4379 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4380 non-existent file that was broken.
4382 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4383 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4385 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4386 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4387 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4389 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4391 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4392 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4393 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4394 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4395 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4398 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4399 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4400 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4401 at a slight CPU cost.
4403 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4404 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4406 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4409 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4411 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4412 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4418 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4419 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4421 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4423 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4425 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4426 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4428 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4429 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4430 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4431 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4432 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4433 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4436 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4437 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4438 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4439 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4442 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4443 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4444 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4445 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4446 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4447 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4448 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4451 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4452 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4454 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4455 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4456 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4457 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4458 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4459 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4461 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4462 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4463 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4464 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4466 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4469 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4470 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4472 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4473 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4474 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4475 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4478 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4480 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4481 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4483 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4484 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4485 to what was transported.)
4487 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4489 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4490 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4491 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4492 spamd_address settings.
4494 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4495 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4496 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4497 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4498 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4500 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4502 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4503 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4504 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4505 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4506 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4508 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4509 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4511 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4512 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4513 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4514 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4515 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4516 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4517 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4520 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4521 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4522 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4523 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4524 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4525 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4526 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4529 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4531 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4532 driver and ACL definitions.
4534 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4535 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4537 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4538 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4539 understands it better than I do:
4541 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4542 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4544 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4545 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4546 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4547 => three warnings about OTP not working
4548 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4550 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4551 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4552 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4553 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4555 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4556 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4558 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4559 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4560 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4562 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4563 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4566 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4567 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4570 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4571 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4572 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4574 warn !verify = sender
4575 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4577 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4578 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4580 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4582 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4583 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4585 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4586 nomenclature these days.)
4588 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4589 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4591 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4592 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4593 . First host does not offer TLS;
4594 . First host accepts first address;
4595 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4596 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4597 . Second host accepts second address.
4598 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4599 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4602 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4603 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4604 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4605 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4606 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4608 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4609 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4611 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4612 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4614 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4615 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4616 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4618 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4619 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4622 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4624 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4625 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4626 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4627 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4628 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4629 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4630 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4632 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4633 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4634 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4635 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4636 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4638 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4639 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4642 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4643 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4644 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4645 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4646 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4647 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4649 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4651 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4652 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4653 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4654 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4655 printable escape sequences.
4657 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4658 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4661 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4662 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4665 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4666 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4667 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4668 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4669 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4671 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4672 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4673 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4675 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4677 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4678 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4681 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4682 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4683 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4684 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4685 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4686 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4687 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4688 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4689 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4692 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4693 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4694 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4695 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4699 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4700 ----------------------------------------
4702 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4703 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4704 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4705 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4706 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4707 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4710 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4711 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4712 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4713 historical information.
4719 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4721 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4722 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4724 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4725 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4728 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4729 filter fails to execute.
4731 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4732 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4733 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4734 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4735 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4737 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4739 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4740 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4741 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4742 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4744 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4745 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4746 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4747 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4748 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4750 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4752 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4754 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4755 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4756 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4757 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4759 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4760 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4761 sender verification.
4763 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4764 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4766 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4768 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4771 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4772 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4774 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4775 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4777 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4778 information about exactly what failed.
4780 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4782 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4783 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4784 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4786 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4787 It is now set to "smtps".
4789 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4790 ignore_target_hosts.
4792 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4793 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4794 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4795 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4798 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4799 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4800 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4802 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4803 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4804 wake it up if nothing else does.
4806 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4807 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4808 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4811 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4812 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4814 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4816 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4817 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4818 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4819 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4820 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4821 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4822 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4823 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4825 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4826 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4827 than one IP address.
4829 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4830 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4831 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4832 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4834 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4835 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4836 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4837 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4838 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4841 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4842 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4843 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4844 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4846 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4847 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4850 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4851 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4852 $sender_host_address.
4854 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4855 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4856 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4857 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4858 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4861 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4863 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4864 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4866 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4867 just the host names, not the priorities.
4869 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4870 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4871 controlled by a keyword.
4873 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4874 multiple records are returned.
4876 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4877 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4880 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4882 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4883 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4885 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4886 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4887 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4889 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4891 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4893 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4895 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4896 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4897 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4898 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4899 because the tests only now provoked it.
4901 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4902 (this can affect the format of dates).
4904 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4905 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4906 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4907 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4909 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4911 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4912 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4913 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4914 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4916 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4917 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4918 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4920 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4923 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4924 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4925 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4926 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4927 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4928 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4931 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4932 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4933 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4936 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4937 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4938 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4940 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4941 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4942 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4943 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4944 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4945 so I produce this patch..."
4947 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4948 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4951 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4952 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4953 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4954 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4957 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4959 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4960 long debug lines gets shown.
4962 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4963 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4965 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4967 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4968 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4969 of $primary_hostname.
4971 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4972 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4973 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4974 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4975 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4976 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4977 by change 4.50/55 above.
4979 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4980 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4981 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4982 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4983 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4984 running as the user.
4987 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4988 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4989 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4992 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4993 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4995 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4996 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4997 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4998 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4999 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5001 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5002 This has been fixed.
5004 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5005 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5006 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5007 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5010 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5012 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5013 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5014 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5015 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5017 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5018 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5020 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5021 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5022 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5024 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5025 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5026 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5029 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5030 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5031 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5033 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5034 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5035 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5036 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5038 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5039 during host lookups.
5041 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5042 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5044 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5046 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5047 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5048 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5049 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5050 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5053 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5054 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5056 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5057 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5058 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5060 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5062 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5063 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5064 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5065 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5066 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5067 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5070 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5071 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5072 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5073 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5074 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5076 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5079 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5081 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5082 "vacation" handling.
5084 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5085 OS variants using glibc.
5087 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5090 ----------------------------------------------------
5091 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5092 ----------------------------------------------------
5098 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5099 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5102 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5103 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5106 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5107 filter fails to execute.
5109 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5110 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5111 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5112 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5113 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5115 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5116 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5117 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5118 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5120 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5121 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5122 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5123 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5124 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5126 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5128 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5129 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5130 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5131 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5133 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5134 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5135 sender verification.
5137 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5138 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5140 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5141 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5143 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5144 ignore_target_hosts.
5146 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5147 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5148 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5149 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5152 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5153 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5154 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5156 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5157 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5158 wake it up if nothing else does.
5160 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5161 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5162 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5165 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5166 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5168 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5170 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5171 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5174 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5175 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5178 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5179 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5180 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5181 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5182 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5185 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5186 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5189 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5190 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5191 $sender_host_address.
5193 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5195 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5196 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5197 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5199 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5202 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5203 (this can affect the format of dates).
5205 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5206 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5207 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5208 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5210 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5211 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5212 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5214 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5215 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5216 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5217 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5219 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5220 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5221 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5223 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5226 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5227 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5228 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5229 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5230 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5231 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5234 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5235 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5236 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5237 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5240 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5241 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5242 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5243 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5244 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5245 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5246 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5248 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5249 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5250 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5251 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5252 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5253 running as the user.
5256 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5257 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5258 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5261 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5262 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5263 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5264 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5265 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5267 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5268 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5269 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5270 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5273 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5274 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5275 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5276 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5277 because the tests only now provoked it.
5283 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5284 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5285 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5286 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5287 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5288 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5289 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5291 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5292 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5295 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5297 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5299 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5300 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5303 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5304 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5305 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5306 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5307 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5309 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5310 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5312 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5314 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5316 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5319 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5320 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5322 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5323 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5324 affecting debugging statements).
5326 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5328 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5329 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5330 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5331 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5332 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5333 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5334 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5335 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5336 after the received time, and all would be well.
5338 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5339 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5340 condition in an expansion string.
5342 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5344 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5345 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5346 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5347 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5348 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5349 job under whatever limits there are.
5351 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5353 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5356 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5357 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5358 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5359 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5362 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5363 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5364 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5365 binary data in such strings.
5367 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5369 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5370 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5371 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5372 failure, which is pointless.
5374 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5376 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5378 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5379 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5380 Sender: header lines.
5382 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5383 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5384 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5386 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5387 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5388 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5389 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5390 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5393 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5394 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5395 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5396 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5397 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5399 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5400 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5401 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5404 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5405 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5407 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5408 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5410 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5412 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5414 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5416 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5419 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5421 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5423 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5424 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5425 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5426 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5428 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5429 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5435 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5436 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5437 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5439 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5440 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5441 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5442 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5443 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5444 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5446 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5447 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5448 verification failure".
5450 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5451 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5452 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5453 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5455 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5456 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5457 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5458 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5459 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5460 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5461 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5462 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5463 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5464 treated as a timeout.
5466 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5467 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5468 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5469 not set for Exim filters).
5471 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5472 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5473 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5475 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5477 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5478 try to make them clearer.
5480 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5481 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5483 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5485 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5487 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5488 only the Cygwin environment.
5490 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5491 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5492 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5493 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5494 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5496 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5497 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5498 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5499 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5500 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5501 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5502 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5504 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5505 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5507 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5509 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5510 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5511 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5513 To: susanne@some.where
5515 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5516 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5517 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5518 of addresses in From: header lines).
5520 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5521 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5522 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5524 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5525 treated as non-personal.
5527 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5528 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5530 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5532 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5534 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5535 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5536 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5538 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5539 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5541 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5542 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5543 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5544 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5545 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5546 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5548 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5549 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5550 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5551 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5552 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5553 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5554 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5555 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5557 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5559 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5560 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5562 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5563 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5564 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5566 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5567 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5569 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5570 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5571 rather than long int.
5573 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5575 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5581 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5582 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5583 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5584 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5585 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5586 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5592 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5593 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5595 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5596 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5597 socklen_t is defined.
5599 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5602 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5605 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5606 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5607 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5608 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5609 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5611 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5612 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5613 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5614 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5616 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5617 of flapping under certain conditions.
5619 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5620 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5621 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5623 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5625 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5627 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5628 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5629 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5630 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5632 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5633 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5634 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5635 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5636 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5637 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5638 preserved with the message after it was received.
5640 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5641 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5642 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5643 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5644 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5645 test suite worked just fine.
5647 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5648 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5649 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5651 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5652 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5655 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5656 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5657 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5658 does not fully solve it.
5660 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5661 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5662 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5663 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5664 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5666 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5667 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5668 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5670 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5671 string, for example:
5673 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5675 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5676 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5677 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5678 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5679 the routers could not see them.
5681 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5682 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5684 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5685 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5688 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5689 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5690 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5691 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5692 that needed quoting.
5694 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5695 was not being matched caselessly.
5697 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5700 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5701 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5702 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5703 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5704 when use_sender is false.
5706 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5708 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5710 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5712 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5713 the configuration file.
5715 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5716 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5718 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5720 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5721 bytes in the message body.
5723 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5724 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5727 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5729 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5731 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5732 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5733 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5734 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5741 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5742 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5744 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5745 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5746 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5747 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5748 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5750 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5751 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5753 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5754 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5755 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5757 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5758 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5759 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5761 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5764 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5765 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5766 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5767 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5768 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5769 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5770 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5776 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5777 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5778 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5779 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5780 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5781 default (and expected) setting.
5783 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5784 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5785 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5786 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5788 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5789 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5791 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5794 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5795 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5796 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5797 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5798 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5799 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5801 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5802 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5803 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5805 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5806 part (NOT match_host).
5808 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5810 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5811 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5812 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5813 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5814 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5815 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5816 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5817 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5818 the same named file.
5820 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5821 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5824 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5825 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5826 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5827 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5830 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5831 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5832 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5834 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5836 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5838 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5840 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5841 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5843 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5844 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5845 before starting the TLS session.
5847 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5849 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5850 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5852 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5853 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5854 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5855 colon in the middle).
5861 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5862 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5863 multiple configurations are in use.
5865 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5866 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5867 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5868 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5869 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5870 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5872 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5873 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5875 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5876 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5877 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5879 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5880 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5883 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5884 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5886 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5888 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5889 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5891 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5899 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5900 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5901 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5902 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5903 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5905 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5908 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5909 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5910 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5911 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5912 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5913 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5915 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5916 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5917 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5918 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5919 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5920 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5921 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5924 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5925 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5926 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5927 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5928 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5930 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5932 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5933 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5934 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5936 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5938 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5939 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5940 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5943 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5944 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5946 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5947 Three changes have been made:
5949 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5950 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5951 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5952 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5953 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5955 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5958 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5959 the modified behaviour.
5965 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5968 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5969 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5971 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5972 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5973 try to track down a specific problem.
5975 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5976 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5977 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5979 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5982 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5983 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5984 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5985 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5986 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5987 some earlier ones do not.
5989 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5991 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5992 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5993 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5994 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5995 address literals are enabled, of course).
5997 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5999 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6000 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6001 by a command such as
6005 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6007 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6009 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6010 remained set. It is now erased.
6012 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6013 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6015 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6016 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6017 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6018 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6019 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6020 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6021 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6022 appropriate error code.
6024 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6025 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6026 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6027 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6028 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6029 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6031 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6032 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6033 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6035 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6036 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6037 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6038 terminate the header.
6040 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6041 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6042 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6044 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6045 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6046 (4.30/29). In particular:
6048 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6051 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6052 to write a maildirsize file.
6054 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6055 the transport, the new value overrides.
6057 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6060 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6061 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6062 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6065 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6066 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6067 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6070 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6071 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6072 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6074 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6075 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6078 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6079 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6080 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6082 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6084 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6086 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6088 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6089 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6092 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6093 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6094 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6095 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6096 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6097 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6098 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6101 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6102 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6103 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6104 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6105 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6108 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6109 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6110 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6111 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6112 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6113 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6114 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6115 cached value only when the same options are set.
6117 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6119 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6120 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6121 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6122 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6123 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6125 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6126 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6127 it is clearly obsolete.
6129 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6132 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6133 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6134 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6137 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6138 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6139 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6140 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6141 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6143 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6144 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6145 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6146 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6148 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6150 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6152 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6153 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6156 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6157 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6158 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6159 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6160 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6161 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6164 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6165 with the -f command-line option.
6167 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6168 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6169 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6170 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6171 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6172 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6174 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6175 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6178 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6179 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6180 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6181 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6182 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6183 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6184 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6185 buffer is too small.
6187 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6188 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6190 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6191 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6192 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6193 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6194 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6195 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6196 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6197 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6198 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6200 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6201 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6202 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6204 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6205 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6208 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6209 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6210 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6211 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6212 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6214 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6215 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6216 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6217 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6220 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6222 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6224 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6225 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6227 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6228 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6229 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6231 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6232 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6233 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6234 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6235 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6237 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6238 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6239 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6240 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6241 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6242 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6243 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6245 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6246 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6247 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6248 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6249 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6250 the test of how many are available.
6252 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6253 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6254 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6255 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6256 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6257 new message is started.
6259 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6260 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6262 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6263 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6265 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6266 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6267 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6270 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6271 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6272 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6273 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6274 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6275 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6276 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6278 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6279 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6280 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6281 interpreted as octal.
6283 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6286 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6287 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6288 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6289 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6290 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6291 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6293 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6294 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6295 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6296 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6298 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6299 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6300 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6301 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6303 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6304 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6307 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6308 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6310 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6312 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6313 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6314 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6315 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6317 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6318 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6319 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6320 supplied", which is not helpful.
6322 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6323 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6324 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6326 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6327 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6328 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6329 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6330 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6331 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6332 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6333 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6335 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6336 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6337 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6338 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6339 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6341 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6342 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6343 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6344 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6345 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6346 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6348 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6349 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6350 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6352 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6354 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6355 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6356 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6359 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6361 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6362 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6363 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6364 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6365 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6366 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6367 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6368 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6370 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6371 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6372 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6373 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6374 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6376 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6379 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6380 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6381 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6382 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6383 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6384 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6385 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6386 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6387 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6393 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6394 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6395 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6397 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6400 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6401 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6402 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6404 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6405 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6406 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6407 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6408 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6409 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6411 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6412 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6413 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6414 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6415 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6416 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6417 the Exim test suite.
6419 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6420 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6421 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6422 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6424 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6425 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6426 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6427 specify it in this variable.
6429 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6430 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6431 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6432 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6434 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6435 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6436 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6437 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6439 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6440 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6441 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6442 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6443 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6445 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6447 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6450 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6451 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6452 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6453 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6454 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6456 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6457 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6459 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6460 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6461 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6462 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6463 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6465 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6466 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6468 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6469 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6470 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6472 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6473 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6475 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6476 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6478 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6479 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6480 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6482 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6483 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6485 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6486 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6487 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6488 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6490 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6492 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6493 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6494 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6495 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6497 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6499 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6500 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6502 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6504 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6505 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6506 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6507 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6508 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6509 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6511 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6513 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6514 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6517 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6519 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6520 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6522 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6523 550 Sender verify failed
6525 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6526 the final line of the response.
6528 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6529 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6530 all other user lookups.
6532 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6535 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6536 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6537 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6538 result into an int without checking.
6540 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6541 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6542 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6544 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6545 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6546 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6547 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6549 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6552 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6553 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6555 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6556 to the empty sender.
6558 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6559 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6560 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6561 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6562 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6563 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6564 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6567 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6568 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6569 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6570 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6573 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6574 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6576 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6579 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6580 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6582 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6584 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6585 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6588 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6589 as soon as it is encountered.
6591 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6593 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6596 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6597 recognizes a tab character.
6599 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6600 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6601 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6602 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6604 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6606 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6609 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6611 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6613 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6614 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6617 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6618 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6619 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6620 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6621 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6623 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6624 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6626 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6627 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6628 list (.included file names were always shown).
6630 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6631 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6632 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6635 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6636 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6638 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6640 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6642 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6644 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6645 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6646 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6647 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6648 failures to open the logs.
6650 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6651 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6652 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6653 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6654 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6655 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6656 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6662 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6663 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6664 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6667 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6668 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6669 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6671 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6672 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6673 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6675 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6676 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6677 causing some misleading effects.
6679 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6680 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6681 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6683 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6684 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6685 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6686 queue-runner function directly.
6692 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6695 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6696 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6697 was always written to the default place.
6699 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6700 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6701 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6703 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6705 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6707 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6708 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6709 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6711 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6712 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6715 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6716 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6717 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6719 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6720 command line option is disabled.
6722 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6723 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6725 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6727 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6729 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6730 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6732 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6734 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6735 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6736 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6737 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6738 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6739 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6741 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6742 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6745 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6746 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6748 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6749 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6751 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6752 received was valid base64.
6754 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6755 name of the variable that was being set.
6757 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6759 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6760 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6761 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6762 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6763 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6764 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6766 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6768 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6769 nor realm was specified.
6771 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6772 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6773 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6774 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6776 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6777 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6778 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6780 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6781 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6782 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6784 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6785 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6786 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6787 some systems use these upper case variants.
6789 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6790 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6791 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6792 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6794 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6796 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6797 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6799 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6800 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6803 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6805 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6806 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6807 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6808 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6810 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6813 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6814 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6815 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6817 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6818 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6820 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6821 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6822 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6823 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6825 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6826 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6827 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6829 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6831 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6832 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6833 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6834 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6837 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6838 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6839 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6841 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6843 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6844 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6846 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6847 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6849 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6850 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6851 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6852 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6853 when emails are that large.
6860 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6861 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6863 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6864 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6865 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6867 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6868 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6869 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6871 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6872 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6873 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6874 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6875 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6877 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6878 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6879 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6880 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6881 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6884 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6885 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6886 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6887 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6888 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6889 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6890 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6891 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6892 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6893 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6894 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6895 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6896 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6897 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6899 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6900 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6903 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6904 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6905 error should be diagnosed.
6907 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6908 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6909 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6910 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6911 appeared instead of "NULL".
6913 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6914 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6915 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6916 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6917 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6918 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6921 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6922 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6923 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6929 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6930 or receiver verification errors.
6932 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6935 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6936 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6937 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6938 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6940 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6941 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6942 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6943 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6944 shouldn't happen again.
6946 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6947 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6948 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6950 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6951 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6953 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6955 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6956 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6958 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6959 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6962 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6963 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6964 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6966 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6967 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6968 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6969 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6971 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6972 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6973 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6974 to define what should happen).
6976 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6977 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6978 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6980 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6982 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6984 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6985 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6987 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6988 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6989 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6990 structure in all cases.
6992 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6993 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6994 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6995 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6997 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6998 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7001 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7002 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7004 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7005 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7007 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7008 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7009 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7011 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7012 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7013 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7015 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7016 the book and for uniformity.
7018 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7020 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7021 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7022 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7023 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7024 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7025 non-existent command as the problem.
7027 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7028 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7029 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7031 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7033 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7034 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7035 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7037 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7038 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7039 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7040 timestamps using strftime().
7042 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7043 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7045 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7046 transport-time rewrites.
7048 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7049 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7050 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7051 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7053 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7054 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7056 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7057 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7058 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7059 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7062 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7063 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7064 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7065 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7066 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7067 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7068 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7070 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7071 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7072 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7073 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7074 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7076 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7077 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7078 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7079 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7080 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7081 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7082 remaining text gets split now.
7084 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7085 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7086 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7087 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7089 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7090 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7091 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7092 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7095 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7096 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7097 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7098 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7099 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7100 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7101 passed through if needed.
7103 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7104 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7105 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7106 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7107 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7108 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7110 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7111 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7112 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7113 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7114 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7116 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7117 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7118 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7119 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7120 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7122 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7123 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7126 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7127 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7128 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7129 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7130 mayhem of various kinds.
7132 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7133 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7134 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7135 the right test for positive values.
7137 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7138 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7139 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7140 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7141 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7142 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7143 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7144 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7145 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7146 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7149 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7152 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7153 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7156 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7157 the existing equality matching.
7159 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7160 dealing with inode numbers.
7162 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7163 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7164 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7166 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7167 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7168 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7169 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7172 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7173 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7174 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7175 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7176 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7177 relay addresses has also been removed.
7179 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7181 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7182 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7183 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7185 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7186 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7187 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7188 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7189 processing applies to CR:
7191 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7192 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7194 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7195 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7196 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7197 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7199 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7200 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7201 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7203 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7204 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7205 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7206 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7207 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7208 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7211 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7214 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7215 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7216 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7217 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7220 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7222 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7224 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7226 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7227 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7228 not considered personal.
7230 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7232 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7234 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7236 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7237 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7238 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7239 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7240 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7241 header lines, and spool format errors.
7243 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7244 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7245 for more flexibility.
7247 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7248 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7249 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7251 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7254 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7255 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7256 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7257 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7258 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7259 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7260 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7261 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7262 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7264 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7265 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7266 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7267 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7268 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7269 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7270 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7272 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7273 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7274 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7276 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7277 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7278 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7279 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7280 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7281 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7282 instead of killing the process with assert().
7284 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7285 than Unicode encoding.
7287 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7288 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7289 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7290 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7292 77. Added process_log_path.
7294 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7295 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7297 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7298 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7300 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7301 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7302 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7304 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7305 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7306 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7307 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7308 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7311 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7312 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7315 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7316 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7317 they will be used during message reception.
7323 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.