1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 pp/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
283 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
284 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
285 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
287 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
289 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
290 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
293 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
294 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
295 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
297 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
299 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
301 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
302 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
303 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
305 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
306 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
307 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
309 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
310 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
312 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
313 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
316 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
317 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
318 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
319 should both provide the file and set the option.
320 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
322 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
323 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
325 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
326 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
327 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
328 Authentication-Results: header.
330 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
331 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
332 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
333 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
335 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
336 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
337 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
338 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
339 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
340 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
341 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
343 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
344 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
345 copies while it is still usable.
347 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
348 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
349 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
351 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
352 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
354 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
355 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
356 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
357 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
359 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
360 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
361 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
364 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
365 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
366 - the pipe transport command
367 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
368 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
370 - paths used by single-key lookups
371 Previously this was permitted.
373 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
374 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
375 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
376 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
378 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
379 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
380 support larger malloc requests.
382 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
383 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
384 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
385 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
387 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
388 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
389 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
390 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
393 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
394 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
395 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
396 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
397 data being length-specified.
399 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
400 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
401 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
402 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
404 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
405 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
406 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
407 not being properly tracked.
409 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
410 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
411 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
412 minute could be seen.
414 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
415 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
416 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
418 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
419 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
421 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
422 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
425 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
427 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
428 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
430 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
431 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
432 filesystem as sufficient validation.
434 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
435 argument is supplied.
437 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
438 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
439 access under Exim's current working directory.
441 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
442 Previously no event was raised.
444 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
445 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
446 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
449 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
450 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
451 the size of the signature hash.
453 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
454 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
456 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
457 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
458 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
459 dropped between messages.
461 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
462 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
463 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
464 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
466 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
467 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
468 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
469 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
470 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
471 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
472 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
473 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
474 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
476 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
477 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
478 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
480 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
481 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
488 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
489 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
491 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
492 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
495 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
498 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
500 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
502 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
503 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
505 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
506 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
507 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
508 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
509 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
510 suitably configured).
512 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
513 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
515 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
516 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
519 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
520 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
522 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
523 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
524 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
525 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
528 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
529 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
530 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
532 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
535 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
536 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
538 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
539 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
540 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
541 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
544 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
545 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
546 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
547 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
550 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
551 shared (NFS) environment.
553 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
554 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
557 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
558 on some platforms for bit 31.
560 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
561 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
562 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
563 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
564 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
565 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
566 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
567 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
569 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
571 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
572 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
574 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
575 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
578 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
579 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
582 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
583 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
584 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
587 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
588 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
589 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
591 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
592 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
593 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
594 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
595 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
597 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
600 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
601 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
602 be requested on all coneections.
604 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
605 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
607 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
609 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
610 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
611 one for these; the option was ignored.
613 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
614 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
615 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
616 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
618 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
619 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
620 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
623 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
624 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
625 error ignored was made.
627 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
629 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
630 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
631 values, to catch one form of exploit.
633 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
634 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
635 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
637 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
638 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
641 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
642 them in our smtp response.
644 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
645 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
646 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
647 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
648 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
650 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
651 link count into consideration.
653 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
654 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
656 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
657 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
658 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
661 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
663 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
665 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
667 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
668 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
669 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
670 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
672 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
674 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
675 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
678 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
679 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
680 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
682 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
683 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
684 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
686 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
687 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
688 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
689 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
690 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
691 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
692 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
693 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
695 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
696 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
697 resulted in an indefinite loop.
699 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
700 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
701 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
707 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
708 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
710 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
711 non-signal-safe functions being used.
713 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
714 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
715 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
717 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
718 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
719 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
721 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
722 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
723 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
724 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
725 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
728 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
729 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
731 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
732 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
733 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
734 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
735 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
736 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
737 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
739 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
740 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
742 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
745 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
746 Previously this would segfault.
748 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
751 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
752 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
753 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
754 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
755 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
756 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
758 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
760 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
761 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
762 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
763 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
765 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
767 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
768 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
769 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
770 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
772 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
774 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
776 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
777 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
778 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
780 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
781 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
782 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
784 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
786 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
787 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
788 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
789 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
791 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
792 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
793 promised '?' replacement.
795 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
797 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
798 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
799 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
800 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
801 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
803 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
804 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
805 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
807 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
808 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
809 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
811 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
812 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
813 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
815 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
816 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
817 hope that is portable enough.
819 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
820 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
821 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
822 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
824 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
825 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
826 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
828 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
829 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
830 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
831 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
833 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
834 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
836 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
837 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
838 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
839 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
841 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
842 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
843 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
845 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
846 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
847 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
848 the previous G, M, k.
850 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
851 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
854 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
855 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
856 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
857 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
859 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
860 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
862 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
863 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
864 off past the nul-terimation.
866 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
867 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
868 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
869 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
870 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
872 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
874 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
875 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
876 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
879 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
880 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
882 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
883 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
884 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
886 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
887 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
888 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
890 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
891 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
897 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
898 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
899 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
900 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
901 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
902 be defined in redis_servers.
904 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
905 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
907 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
908 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
909 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
910 extant use locations.
912 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
913 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
915 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
916 Previously only the last row was returned.
918 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
919 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
920 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
921 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
924 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
925 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
926 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
927 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
928 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
929 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
930 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
931 Main pool for expansions.
932 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
933 active in the testsuite.
934 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
936 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
937 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
938 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
939 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
942 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
943 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
946 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
947 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
948 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
950 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
951 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
952 ClamAV interface method is removed.
954 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
955 rows affected is given instead).
957 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
958 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
960 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
961 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
962 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
963 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
964 for all multi-message initiating connections.
966 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
967 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
968 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
970 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
971 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
972 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
973 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
976 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
977 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
978 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
981 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
983 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
984 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
986 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
987 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
988 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
990 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
991 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
992 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
995 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
996 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
998 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
999 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1000 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1002 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1003 for the build is renamed.
1005 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1006 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1007 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1009 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1010 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1011 result replacing the original.
1013 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1014 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1015 and the resources needed to be freed.
1017 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1019 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1022 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1023 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1024 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1025 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1027 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1028 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1030 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1031 newer versions of the scanner.
1033 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1034 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1035 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1036 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1037 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1038 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1039 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1041 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1042 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1043 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1044 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1045 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1046 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1047 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1048 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1049 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1050 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1052 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1053 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1055 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1057 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1058 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1060 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1061 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1063 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1064 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1065 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1067 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1068 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1069 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1070 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1072 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1073 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1076 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1077 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1079 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1080 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1081 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1082 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1083 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1085 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1086 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1089 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1090 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1092 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1095 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1096 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1097 "bare" representation.
1099 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1100 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1101 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1102 corrupted the output.
1108 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1109 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1110 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1111 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1113 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1114 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1116 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1117 This permits better logging.
1119 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1120 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1121 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1122 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1123 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1124 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1126 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1127 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1130 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1131 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1132 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1134 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1135 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1137 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1138 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1139 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1140 client, there is no benefit for these.
1141 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1142 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1143 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1146 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1147 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1149 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1150 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1151 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1153 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1154 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1156 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1157 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1158 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1159 signature and again for transmission.
1161 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1162 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1163 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1165 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1166 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1167 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1168 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1169 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1170 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1171 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1173 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1174 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1175 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1176 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1178 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1179 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1180 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1181 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1182 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1183 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1186 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1187 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1188 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1189 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1192 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1193 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1194 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1195 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1198 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1199 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1202 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1203 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1204 banner-time rejection.
1206 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1209 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1210 is the name of a transport.
1213 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1215 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1216 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1218 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1219 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1220 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1223 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1224 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1225 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1226 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1228 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1229 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1230 initial verify call returned a defer.
1232 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1233 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1235 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1236 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1238 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1239 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1241 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1242 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1244 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1245 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1248 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1249 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1251 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1252 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1253 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1255 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1256 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1257 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1258 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1260 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1261 and confused the parent.
1263 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1264 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1266 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1269 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1270 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1271 out-of-order delivery.
1273 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1274 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1275 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1278 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1279 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1282 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1283 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1284 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1286 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1287 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1288 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1289 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1290 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1291 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1293 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1294 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1295 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1297 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1298 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1299 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1301 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1302 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1303 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1304 though a different problem.
1310 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1311 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1313 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1315 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1316 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1318 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1319 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1321 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1322 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1323 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1324 before acknowledging the chunk.
1326 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1327 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1328 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1330 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1331 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1332 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1335 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1336 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1337 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1339 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1340 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1342 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1343 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1344 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1345 body hash calculated value.
1347 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1348 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1349 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1351 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1353 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1354 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1356 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1357 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1358 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1360 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1361 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1362 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1363 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1364 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1365 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1367 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1368 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1369 past that check, despite the cost.
1371 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1372 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1373 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1375 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1376 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1377 TLS library to consume.
1379 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1381 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1383 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1384 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1385 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1386 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1387 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1388 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1389 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1391 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1393 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1395 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1396 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1397 should be warning-free.
1399 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1401 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1402 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1404 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1405 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1406 general solution here.
1408 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1409 already-broken messages in the queue.
1411 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1413 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1419 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1420 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1422 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1423 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1424 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1426 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1427 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1428 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1429 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1430 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1431 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1432 if one fails this test.
1433 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1434 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1436 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1437 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1439 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1440 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1442 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1443 in rewrites and routers.
1445 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1446 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1448 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1449 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1451 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1453 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1456 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1457 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1458 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1459 connection after a verify cache hit.
1460 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1462 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1463 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1465 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1466 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1467 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1468 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1469 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1471 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1472 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1474 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1475 Previously they were not counted.
1477 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1478 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1479 that needed the lookup.
1481 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1482 distinguished as "(=".
1484 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1485 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1487 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1489 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1490 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1492 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1493 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1495 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1496 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1499 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1500 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1501 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1502 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1504 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1506 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1507 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1508 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1510 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1511 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1512 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1515 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1516 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1517 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1520 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1521 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1522 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1524 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1525 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1528 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1530 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1531 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1533 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1534 are not in the system include path.
1536 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1537 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1538 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1539 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1541 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1542 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1543 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1545 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1547 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1548 an incoming connection.
1550 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1553 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1554 fallback to "prime256v1".
1556 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1557 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1563 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1564 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1565 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1566 client dropping the TLS connection.
1568 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1569 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1571 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1572 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1573 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1574 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1577 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1578 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1579 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1580 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1581 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1582 check on the next write.
1584 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1585 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1586 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1587 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1588 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1590 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1591 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1593 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1594 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1595 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1597 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1598 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1599 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1600 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1602 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1603 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1605 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1606 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1608 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1609 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1610 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1613 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1615 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1617 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1619 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1620 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1622 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1623 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1625 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1627 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1628 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1630 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1632 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1633 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1635 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1637 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1638 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1639 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1640 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1641 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1642 they will retry in-clear.
1643 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1644 at installation time.
1646 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1647 with the $config_file variable.
1649 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1650 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1651 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1652 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1653 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1655 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1656 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1657 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1658 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1659 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1661 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1663 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1664 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1665 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1666 list order is no longer honoured.
1668 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1669 for DKIM processing.
1671 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1672 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1674 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1675 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1676 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1677 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1679 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1680 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1682 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1683 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1685 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1686 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1688 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1690 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1691 cached by the daemon.
1693 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1694 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1696 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1697 keys are given for lookup.
1699 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1700 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1701 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1702 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1704 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1705 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1706 server-side so match that on older versions.
1708 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1709 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1710 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1712 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1713 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1715 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1716 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1717 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1718 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1719 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1720 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1721 initial truncated version.
1723 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1725 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1727 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1728 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1730 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1732 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1734 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1735 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1738 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1739 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1742 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1743 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1745 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1746 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1749 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1750 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1751 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1753 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1754 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1755 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1756 extraction. Accept either.
1762 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1765 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1767 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1770 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1771 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1772 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1773 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1775 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1776 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1777 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1779 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1780 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1781 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1784 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1787 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1788 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1789 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1790 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1791 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1793 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1794 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1795 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1797 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1799 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1800 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1802 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1803 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1805 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1808 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1809 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1811 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1812 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1813 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1815 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1816 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1817 specify a port-range.
1819 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1820 timeout value per server.
1822 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1823 now have the list separator specified.
1825 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1828 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1831 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1833 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1834 rather than the verbs used.
1836 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1837 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1839 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1841 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1842 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1844 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1845 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1847 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1848 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1850 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1852 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1854 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1855 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1856 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1857 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1859 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1861 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1862 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1864 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1865 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1867 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1869 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1871 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1873 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1874 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1876 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1877 added for tls authenticator.
1879 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1885 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1886 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1887 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1888 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1889 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1890 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1891 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1893 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1894 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1895 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1896 function when detected.
1898 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1899 cause callback expansion.
1901 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1902 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1903 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1904 instead of bool when processing it.
1906 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1907 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1909 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1911 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1913 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1915 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1916 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1918 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1919 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1920 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1921 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1922 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1923 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1925 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1926 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1929 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1930 version 3.3.6 or later.
1932 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1933 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1934 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1935 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1936 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1937 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1940 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1941 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1943 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1944 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1945 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1948 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1949 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1950 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1952 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1953 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1955 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1956 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1959 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1961 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1962 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1964 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1965 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1968 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1970 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1973 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1974 output list separator was used.
1979 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1980 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1983 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1984 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1986 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1988 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1989 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1995 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1997 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1998 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1999 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2000 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2001 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2002 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2004 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2005 utilities have not been installed.
2007 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2008 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2010 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2011 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2013 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2014 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2015 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2016 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2018 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2020 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2021 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2023 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2026 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2028 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2029 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2030 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2032 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2033 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2034 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2035 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2036 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2037 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2039 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2041 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2042 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2044 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2047 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2049 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2051 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2052 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2054 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2055 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2057 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2059 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2061 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2062 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2064 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2065 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2066 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2068 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2069 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2070 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2073 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2075 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2076 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2079 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2080 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2083 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2084 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2086 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2087 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2089 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2091 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2092 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2093 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2095 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2096 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2098 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2099 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2102 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2103 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2104 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2106 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2108 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2109 Christian Aistleitner.
2111 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2113 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2114 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2116 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2117 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2119 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2120 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2122 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2123 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2125 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2126 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2128 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2129 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2130 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2132 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2134 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2135 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2138 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2140 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2141 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2148 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2150 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2151 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2153 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2156 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2157 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2160 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2162 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2163 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2164 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2165 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2166 using channel bindings instead).
2168 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2169 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2170 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2171 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2172 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2175 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2177 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2179 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2180 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2182 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2183 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2184 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2186 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2188 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2190 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2191 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2193 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2195 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2197 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2199 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2200 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2202 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2204 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2205 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2208 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2209 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2211 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2212 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2215 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2217 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2219 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2220 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2222 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2225 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2226 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2228 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2229 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2231 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2233 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2235 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2238 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2241 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2243 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2244 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2245 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2246 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2248 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2250 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2251 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2252 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2253 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2256 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2257 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2258 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2260 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2261 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2262 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2263 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2265 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2266 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2267 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2268 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2269 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2270 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2271 delivery, as in LMTP.
2273 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2274 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2276 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2278 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2282 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2283 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2284 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2285 username as equal to the username.
2287 This change corrects that bug.
2289 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2290 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2291 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2293 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2295 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2296 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2297 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2298 NULL dereference and crash.
2300 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2302 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2303 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2304 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2306 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2308 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2309 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2310 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2311 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2312 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2313 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2314 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2315 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2316 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2317 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2318 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2320 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2321 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2323 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2324 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2327 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2328 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2329 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2330 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2331 an empty string is now equivalent.
2333 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2334 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2335 not performing validation itself.
2337 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2338 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2340 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2343 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2345 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2346 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2347 other false fix of the same issue.
2348 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2351 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2352 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2354 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2355 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2356 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2358 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2359 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2360 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2362 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2364 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2366 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2367 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2369 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2372 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2373 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2374 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2375 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2376 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2378 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2379 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2381 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2382 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2385 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2386 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2387 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2388 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2390 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2392 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2393 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2394 from multiple comments on this bug.
2396 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2398 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2399 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2402 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2403 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2405 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2406 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2412 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2414 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2420 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2421 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2422 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2424 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2426 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2429 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2431 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2433 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2435 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2436 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2438 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2439 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2441 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2442 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2444 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2445 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2446 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2448 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2450 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2451 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2453 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2455 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2457 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2458 non-compliant senders.
2459 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2461 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2462 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2463 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2465 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2466 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2467 in spool file corruption.
2469 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2470 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2471 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2474 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2475 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2476 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2478 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2479 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2481 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2483 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2485 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2487 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2488 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2489 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2491 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2492 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2493 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2494 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2496 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2497 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2499 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2500 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2501 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2502 resolver implementation change.
2504 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2505 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2507 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2509 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2511 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2512 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2514 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2515 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2517 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2518 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2520 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2521 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2522 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2523 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2524 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2526 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2528 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2529 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2530 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2532 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2534 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2535 read-only, out of scope).
2536 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2538 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2539 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2540 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2541 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2543 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2545 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2546 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2547 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2548 real issues in debug logging.
2550 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2551 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2553 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2554 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2555 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2557 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2558 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2559 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2562 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2563 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2565 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2566 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2567 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2568 needs to override this, it can.
2570 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2571 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2572 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2574 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2575 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2576 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2577 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2579 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2585 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2586 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2588 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2590 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2593 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2594 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2596 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2597 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2598 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2600 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2601 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2602 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2603 not safe for signals.
2605 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2606 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2607 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2608 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2611 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2613 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2614 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2615 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2616 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2617 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2619 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2620 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2621 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2622 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2623 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2624 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2626 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2627 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2628 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2629 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2631 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2632 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2633 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2634 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2636 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2637 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2638 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2639 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2640 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2641 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2642 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2643 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2644 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2646 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2647 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2648 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2649 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2651 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2652 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2653 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2654 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2655 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2656 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2657 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2658 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2659 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2660 details in the main documentation.
2662 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2664 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2666 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2667 repository when doing development or release builds.
2669 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2670 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2672 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2673 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2676 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2678 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2679 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2681 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2682 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2684 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2685 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2687 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2688 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2690 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2691 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2693 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2695 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2698 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2699 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2700 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2702 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2704 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2706 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2707 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2713 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2715 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2716 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2718 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2720 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2722 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2725 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2726 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2728 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2729 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2731 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2732 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2734 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2737 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2738 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2740 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2741 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2742 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2743 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2745 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2746 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2752 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2755 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2756 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2757 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2759 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2760 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2762 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2763 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2764 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2766 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2767 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2769 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2770 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2772 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2773 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2775 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2776 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2778 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2779 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2781 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2784 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2785 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2787 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2788 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2790 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2791 SQL string expansion failure details.
2792 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2794 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2795 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2797 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2798 extern declarations in function scope.
2799 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2801 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2802 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2803 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2806 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2807 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2809 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2810 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2812 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2813 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2815 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2816 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2818 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2819 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2822 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2824 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2826 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2827 Patch by Simon Arlott
2829 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2830 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2836 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2837 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2839 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2840 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2842 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2844 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2845 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2846 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2848 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2849 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2850 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2852 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2853 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2854 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2855 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2857 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2858 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2859 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2860 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2862 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2863 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2864 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2867 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2870 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2871 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2872 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2873 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2874 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2880 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2881 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2882 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2884 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2885 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2887 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2889 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2891 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2893 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2895 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2897 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2898 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2899 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2900 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2902 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2903 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2904 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2905 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2906 more caution in buffer sizes.
2908 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2910 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2912 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2914 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2916 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2918 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2920 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2922 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2923 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2924 ignore trailing whitespace.
2926 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2928 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2931 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2932 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2934 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2935 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2936 Notification from John Horne.
2938 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2941 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2942 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2945 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2948 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2949 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2950 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2952 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2953 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2954 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2957 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2958 option (effectively making it always true).
2960 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2961 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2963 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2964 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2966 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2967 run-time user, instead of root.
2969 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2970 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2972 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2973 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2976 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2977 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2978 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2980 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2982 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2988 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2989 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2992 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2993 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2996 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2997 Patch from Alain Williams
2999 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3001 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3002 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3004 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3005 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3007 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3009 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3011 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3012 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3014 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3016 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3018 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3019 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3020 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3022 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3023 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3025 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3026 Patch by Simon Arlott
3028 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3029 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3035 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3037 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3039 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3041 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3043 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3049 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3050 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3052 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3053 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3056 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3057 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3058 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3060 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3061 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3063 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3064 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3065 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3066 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3068 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3069 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3070 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3072 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3074 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3076 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3077 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3079 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3081 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3082 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3083 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3084 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3086 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3087 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3089 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3091 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3093 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3094 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3096 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3097 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3099 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3100 that they are available at delivery time.
3102 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3104 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3105 incoming_port log selectors.
3107 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3108 setting expands to an empty string.
3110 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3111 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3113 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3114 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3116 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3117 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3119 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3120 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3122 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3123 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3125 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3126 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3128 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3130 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3131 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3133 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3134 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3136 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3138 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3139 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3141 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3143 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3145 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3148 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3149 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3151 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3152 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3154 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3155 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3157 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3158 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3160 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3161 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3163 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3164 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3166 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3167 plus update to original patch.
3169 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3171 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3172 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3174 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3176 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3178 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3180 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3182 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3183 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3185 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3186 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3188 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3189 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3191 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3192 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3194 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3196 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3198 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3200 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3206 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3207 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3208 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3210 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3211 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3212 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3213 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3214 build errors in sieve.c.
3216 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3217 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3218 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3220 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3222 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3224 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3226 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3232 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3234 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3235 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3236 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3237 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3238 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3239 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3240 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3241 for iplsearch lookups.
3243 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3244 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3245 previously such lookups could never work.
3247 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3248 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3249 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3251 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3254 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3255 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3256 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3257 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3258 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3259 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3261 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3262 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3264 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3265 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3266 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3267 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3268 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3269 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3271 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3274 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3276 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3277 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3280 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3281 by clients under certain conditions.
3283 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3284 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3286 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3288 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3289 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3291 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3293 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3295 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3297 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3298 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3300 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3302 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3303 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3305 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3307 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3309 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3310 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3311 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3312 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3314 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3315 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3316 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3318 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3319 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3321 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3323 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3325 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3327 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3328 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3329 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3335 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3336 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3339 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3340 issue a MAIL command.
3342 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3344 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3346 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3347 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3348 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3349 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3350 item. This has been fixed.
3352 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3353 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3355 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3356 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3358 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3359 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3360 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3362 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3364 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3365 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3366 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3367 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3368 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3370 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3371 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3372 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3374 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3375 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3376 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3377 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3379 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3381 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3383 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3384 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3385 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3386 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3387 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3389 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3391 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3392 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3393 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3396 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3398 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3400 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3402 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3404 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3406 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3407 no_callout_flush is set.
3409 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3410 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3411 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3414 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3416 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3417 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3418 other ACL rejections are.
3420 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3421 with slight modification.
3423 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3424 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3426 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3427 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3430 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3431 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3433 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3435 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3436 expansion side effects.
3438 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3439 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3440 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3443 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3444 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3445 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3447 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3448 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3449 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3450 were accidentally chopped off.
3452 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3453 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3454 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3455 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3456 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3457 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3458 pipelining has not been advertised.
3460 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3462 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3463 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3464 This has been fixed.
3466 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3467 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3468 reported on Solaris.
3470 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3471 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3472 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3473 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3474 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3475 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3476 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3478 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3481 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3483 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3485 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3486 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3487 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3488 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3489 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3490 criteria to be more general.
3492 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3493 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3494 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3495 host_all_ignored option.
3497 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3498 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3499 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3500 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3501 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3502 is what is supposed to happen).
3504 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3505 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3506 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3507 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3508 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3511 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3512 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3513 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3514 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3515 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3516 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3519 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3521 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3522 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3524 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3525 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3527 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3529 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3531 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3532 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3533 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3534 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3535 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3536 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3537 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3538 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3539 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3540 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3541 least in a lot of common cases.
3543 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3544 advertised in response to EHLO.
3550 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3551 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3553 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3554 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3556 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3557 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3558 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3560 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3561 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3562 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3563 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3564 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3570 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3571 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3574 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3575 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3576 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3578 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3579 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3580 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3581 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3582 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3583 rather than extend the field.
3589 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3590 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3591 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3592 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3595 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3596 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3597 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3599 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3600 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3601 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3603 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3604 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3605 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3608 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3609 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3610 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3611 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3612 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3613 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3614 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3615 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3616 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3617 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3618 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3620 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3623 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3624 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3625 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3626 ignores EPIPE as well.
3628 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3629 (quoted-printable decoding).
3631 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3632 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3634 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3636 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3638 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3640 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3641 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3643 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3646 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3647 miscellaneous code fixes
3649 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3652 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3653 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3654 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3655 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3656 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3657 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3658 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3659 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3661 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3662 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3663 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3664 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3666 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3667 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3668 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3669 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3670 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3671 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3672 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3673 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3674 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3676 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3679 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3680 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3681 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3682 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3683 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3684 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3685 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3686 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3688 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3689 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3692 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3693 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3694 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3695 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3696 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3697 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3698 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3699 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3700 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3701 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3702 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3703 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3704 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3706 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3707 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3708 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3709 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3710 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3711 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3712 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3714 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3715 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3716 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3717 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3718 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3719 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3720 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3721 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3722 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3723 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3725 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3726 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3727 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3728 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3729 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3731 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3732 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3733 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3734 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3735 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3736 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3737 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3739 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3740 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3741 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3742 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3743 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3744 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3747 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3748 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3749 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3752 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3753 if any retry times were supplied.
3755 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3756 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3757 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3759 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3761 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3763 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3764 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3765 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3766 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3767 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3768 before) are ignored.
3770 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3771 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3773 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3774 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3775 committing the later change.]
3777 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3778 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3779 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3780 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3781 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3782 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3783 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3784 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3785 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3787 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3788 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3789 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3790 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3791 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3792 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3793 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3794 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3795 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3797 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3798 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3799 hammering the server.
3801 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3802 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3804 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3806 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3807 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3808 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3810 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3811 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3812 one case where this was not true.
3814 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3815 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3816 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3817 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3820 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3821 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3822 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3823 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3824 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3825 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3826 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3827 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3828 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3831 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3832 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3833 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3834 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3836 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3837 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3839 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3840 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3841 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3843 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3845 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3847 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3849 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3850 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3851 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3852 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3854 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3855 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3857 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3858 be meaningful with "accept".
3860 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3861 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3863 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3864 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3865 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3867 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3868 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3869 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3870 there is data to show.
3871 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3873 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3874 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3875 as well as the number of messages.
3877 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3878 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3879 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3881 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3882 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3883 have a flag are now skipped.
3885 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3886 Added the -emptyok flag.
3888 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3889 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3891 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3892 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3893 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3895 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3898 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3899 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3901 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3903 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3904 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3906 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3908 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3909 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3910 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3911 contravention of the specifications.
3913 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3914 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3915 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3917 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3918 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3919 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3921 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3923 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3924 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3925 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3926 some point in the past.
3928 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3929 transport during callout processing was broken.
3931 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3932 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3934 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3935 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3937 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3938 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3940 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3946 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3947 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3949 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3950 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3951 there is data to show.
3952 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3954 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3955 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3957 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3958 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3960 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3961 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3963 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3964 submissions from trusted users.
3966 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3967 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3969 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3970 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3971 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3972 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3973 there is now a framework to start from.
3975 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3976 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3977 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3979 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3981 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3983 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3985 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3986 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3987 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3989 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3992 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3993 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3994 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3996 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3997 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3998 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4001 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4002 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4003 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4004 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4005 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4007 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4008 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4010 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4012 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4013 operations in malware.c.
4015 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4018 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4019 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4020 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4023 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4024 statements to "add_header".
4026 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4027 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4029 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4030 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4033 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4037 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4038 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4039 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4042 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4043 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4045 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4046 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4048 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4049 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4050 any possible encoding problems.
4052 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4053 but not after initializing Perl.
4055 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4056 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4057 apparently, which is not desirable.
4059 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4062 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4065 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4067 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4068 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4069 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4070 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4072 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4073 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4074 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4076 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4077 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4078 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4081 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4082 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4083 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4084 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4085 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4091 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4092 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4094 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4097 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4098 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4099 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4100 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4101 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4102 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4103 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4104 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4107 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4109 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4110 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4111 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4113 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4114 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4115 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4118 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4119 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4121 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4122 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4123 option (which defaults to 0600).
4125 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4127 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4128 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4129 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4130 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4131 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4132 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4133 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4135 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4141 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4142 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4143 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4144 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4145 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4146 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4149 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4150 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4152 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4154 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4155 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4156 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4157 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4158 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4161 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4162 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4164 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4165 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4166 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4167 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4168 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4170 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4171 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4172 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4173 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4175 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4176 be the same on different OS.
4178 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4181 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4182 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4184 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4187 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4188 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4189 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4190 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4191 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4192 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4195 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4196 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4197 when Exim was called.
4199 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4200 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4202 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4203 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4204 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4205 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4207 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4208 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4209 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4210 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4213 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4214 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4215 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4217 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4218 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4219 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4221 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4224 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4225 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4226 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4227 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4228 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4229 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4230 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4231 values from the SRV records were lost.
4233 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4234 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4235 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4237 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4238 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4239 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4241 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4242 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4243 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4244 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4245 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4246 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4247 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4248 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4249 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4250 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4252 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4253 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4254 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4256 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4257 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4259 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4260 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4261 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4262 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4265 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4266 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4267 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4269 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4270 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4271 PH/23 above applies.
4273 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4274 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4275 (for which there is an explicit test).
4277 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4279 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4280 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4281 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4282 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4283 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4285 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4286 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4287 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4288 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4290 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4291 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4292 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4294 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4296 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4298 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4299 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4300 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4302 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4303 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4304 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4305 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4306 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4308 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4309 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4310 the message gets confusing).
4312 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4313 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4314 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4315 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4317 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4318 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4319 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4320 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4323 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4324 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4325 the different processes.
4327 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4329 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4331 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4332 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4334 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4335 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4337 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4338 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4339 messages matching specified criteria.
4341 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4343 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4344 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4346 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4347 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4348 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4349 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4350 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4351 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4352 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4353 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4354 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4355 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4357 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4358 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4359 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4361 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4363 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4364 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4365 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4366 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4367 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4368 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4369 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4372 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4373 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4375 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4377 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4379 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4381 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4382 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4383 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4384 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4385 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4386 size of the count of files.
4388 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4390 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4393 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4394 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4395 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4396 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4398 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4399 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4400 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4402 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4403 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4404 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4405 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4406 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4408 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4409 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4411 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4412 will now be deprecated.
4414 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4416 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4417 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4418 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4420 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4421 with very large, slow to parse queues
4423 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4425 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4427 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4428 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4429 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4432 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4433 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4434 Sieve code now uses this.
4436 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4437 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4439 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4440 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4442 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4444 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4445 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4446 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4447 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4448 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4450 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4451 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4452 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4453 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4455 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4457 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4459 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4460 is preferred over IPv4.
4462 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4463 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4464 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4465 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4466 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4467 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4468 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4470 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4471 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4472 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4474 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4476 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4477 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4478 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4479 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4480 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4481 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4482 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4483 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4484 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4485 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4486 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4488 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4489 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4490 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4496 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4498 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4499 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4501 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4502 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4503 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4505 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4507 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4510 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4513 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4514 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4515 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4518 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4519 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4521 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4522 inside the third argument.
4524 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4525 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4528 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4529 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4531 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4532 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4534 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4536 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4537 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4540 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4542 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4543 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4544 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4545 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4546 identical. For example:
4548 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4550 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4551 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4552 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4554 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4555 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4556 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4557 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4559 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4560 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4561 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4564 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4566 o fixes some comments
4567 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4568 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4569 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4570 and documents the missing references header update
4574 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4575 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4578 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4579 Electronic Mail") by including:
4581 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4583 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4584 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4585 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4586 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4587 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4589 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4591 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4593 The auto-replied keyword:
4595 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4596 message by an automatic process,
4598 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4600 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4601 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4603 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4604 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4607 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4608 to the default Received: header definition.
4610 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4612 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4613 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4614 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4616 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4617 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4618 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4620 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4621 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4622 and treats the condition as false.
4624 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4626 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4627 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4628 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4629 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4630 not changing the active code.
4632 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4633 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4635 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4636 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4638 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4641 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4642 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4643 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4644 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4645 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4646 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4647 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4648 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4649 the text comparison.
4651 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4652 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4653 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4654 The same fix has been applied.
4660 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4661 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4664 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4665 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4667 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4669 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4670 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4671 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4672 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4673 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4675 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4676 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4677 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4678 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4681 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4689 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4690 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4692 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4694 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4696 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4697 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4698 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4700 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4701 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4702 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4704 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4705 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4708 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4709 ${stat: expansion item.
4711 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4712 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4714 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4715 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4718 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4720 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4723 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4724 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4726 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4728 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4729 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4730 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4731 the end of the subprocess.
4733 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4734 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4735 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4736 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4737 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4739 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4741 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4743 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4744 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4746 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4748 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4750 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4751 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4754 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4756 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4757 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4758 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4760 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4761 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4763 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4764 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4766 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4767 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4769 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4770 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4772 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4773 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4774 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4775 contributed by a Radius user.
4777 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4778 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4780 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4781 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4783 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4786 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4787 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4790 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4791 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4792 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4793 header lines when this was not necessary.
4795 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4797 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4798 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4799 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4802 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4805 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4806 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4807 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4808 return code was incorrect.
4810 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4812 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4814 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4816 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4818 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4819 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4820 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4821 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4822 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4825 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4827 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4828 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4829 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4830 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4831 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4832 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4833 which is clearly wrong.
4835 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4837 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4838 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4839 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4842 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4843 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4845 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4847 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4848 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4850 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4851 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4853 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4854 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4856 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4857 recipients, not senders.
4859 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4860 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4862 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4864 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4866 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4867 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4868 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4869 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4871 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4873 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4874 clock is set back in time.
4876 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4877 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4879 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4880 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4882 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4883 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4886 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4887 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4890 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4893 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4895 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4896 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4897 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4899 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4900 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4901 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4902 helo verification defer as a failure.
4904 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4905 actual error message.
4911 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4913 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4914 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4915 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4916 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4918 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4920 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4921 can still be requested.
4923 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4924 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4925 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4926 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4928 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4929 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4930 circumstances, but probably never did.
4932 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4933 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4934 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4937 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4939 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4940 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4942 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4944 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4946 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4947 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4948 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4949 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4950 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4951 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4953 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4954 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4955 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4956 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4957 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4958 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4960 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4961 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4963 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4964 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4966 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4967 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4969 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4971 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4973 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4975 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4977 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4979 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4981 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4983 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4984 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4985 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4987 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4988 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4989 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4990 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4992 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4993 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4994 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4996 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4997 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4998 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4999 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5001 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5002 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5005 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5006 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5007 should work with maildirs and everything.
5009 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5010 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5012 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5015 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5016 function for BDB 4.3.
5018 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5020 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5021 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5024 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5025 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5026 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5027 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5028 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5029 formatting function string_vformat().
5031 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5032 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5033 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5034 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5035 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5036 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5037 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5038 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5040 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5041 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5044 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5045 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5047 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5048 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5049 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5050 test. It is now used for both.
5052 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5053 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5054 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5055 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5056 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5057 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5059 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5060 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5061 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5064 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5065 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5066 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5068 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5069 experimental DomainKeys support:
5071 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5072 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5073 the control was given.
5075 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5077 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5079 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5081 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5082 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5083 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5086 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5087 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5088 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5089 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5090 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5091 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5094 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5095 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5096 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5097 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5098 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5099 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5101 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5102 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5103 do -d+all out of habit.
5105 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5106 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5109 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5110 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5111 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5112 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5113 record types that Exim uses.
5115 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5116 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5117 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5118 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5119 non-existent file that was broken.
5121 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5122 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5124 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5125 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5126 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5128 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5130 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5131 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5132 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5133 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5134 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5137 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5138 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5139 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5140 at a slight CPU cost.
5142 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5143 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5145 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5148 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5150 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5151 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5157 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5158 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5160 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5162 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5164 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5165 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5167 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5168 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5169 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5170 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5171 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5172 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5175 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5176 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5177 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5178 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5181 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5182 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5183 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5184 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5185 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5186 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5187 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5190 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5191 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5193 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5194 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5195 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5196 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5197 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5198 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5200 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5201 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5202 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5203 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5205 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5208 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5209 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5211 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5212 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5213 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5214 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5217 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5219 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5220 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5222 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5223 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5224 to what was transported.)
5226 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5228 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5229 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5230 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5231 spamd_address settings.
5233 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5234 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5235 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5236 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5237 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5239 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5241 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5242 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5243 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5244 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5245 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5247 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5248 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5250 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5251 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5252 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5253 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5254 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5255 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5256 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5259 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5260 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5261 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5262 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5263 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5264 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5265 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5268 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5270 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5271 driver and ACL definitions.
5273 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5274 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5276 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5277 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5278 understands it better than I do:
5280 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5281 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5283 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5284 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5285 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5286 => three warnings about OTP not working
5287 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5289 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5290 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5291 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5292 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5294 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5295 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5297 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5298 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5299 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5301 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5302 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5305 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5306 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5309 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5310 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5311 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5313 warn !verify = sender
5314 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5316 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5317 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5319 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5321 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5322 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5324 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5325 nomenclature these days.)
5327 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5328 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5330 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5331 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5332 . First host does not offer TLS;
5333 . First host accepts first address;
5334 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5335 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5336 . Second host accepts second address.
5337 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5338 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5341 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5342 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5343 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5344 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5345 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5347 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5348 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5350 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5351 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5353 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5354 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5355 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5357 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5358 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5361 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5363 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5364 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5365 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5366 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5367 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5368 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5369 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5371 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5372 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5373 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5374 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5375 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5377 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5378 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5381 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5382 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5383 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5384 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5385 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5386 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5388 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5390 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5391 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5392 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5393 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5394 printable escape sequences.
5396 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5397 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5400 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5401 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5404 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5405 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5406 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5407 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5408 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5410 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5411 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5412 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5414 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5416 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5417 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5420 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5421 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5422 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5423 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5424 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5425 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5426 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5427 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5428 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5431 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5432 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5433 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5434 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5438 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5439 ----------------------------------------
5441 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5442 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5443 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5444 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5445 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5446 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5449 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5450 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5451 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5452 historical information.
5458 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5460 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5461 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5463 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5464 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5467 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5468 filter fails to execute.
5470 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5471 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5472 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5473 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5474 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5476 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5478 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5479 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5480 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5481 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5483 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5484 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5485 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5486 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5487 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5489 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5491 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5493 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5494 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5495 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5496 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5498 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5499 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5500 sender verification.
5502 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5503 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5505 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5507 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5510 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5511 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5513 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5514 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5516 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5517 information about exactly what failed.
5519 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5521 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5522 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5523 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5525 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5526 It is now set to "smtps".
5528 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5529 ignore_target_hosts.
5531 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5532 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5533 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5534 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5537 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5538 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5539 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5541 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5542 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5543 wake it up if nothing else does.
5545 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5546 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5547 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5550 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5551 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5553 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5555 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5556 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5557 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5558 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5559 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5560 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5561 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5562 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5564 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5565 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5566 than one IP address.
5568 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5569 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5570 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5571 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5573 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5574 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5575 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5576 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5577 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5580 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5581 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5582 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5583 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5585 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5586 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5589 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5590 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5591 $sender_host_address.
5593 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5594 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5595 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5596 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5597 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5600 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5602 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5603 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5605 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5606 just the host names, not the priorities.
5608 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5609 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5610 controlled by a keyword.
5612 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5613 multiple records are returned.
5615 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5616 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5619 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5621 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5622 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5624 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5625 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5626 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5628 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5630 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5632 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5634 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5635 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5636 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5637 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5638 because the tests only now provoked it.
5640 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5641 (this can affect the format of dates).
5643 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5644 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5645 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5646 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5648 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5650 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5651 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5652 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5653 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5655 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5656 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5657 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5659 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5662 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5663 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5664 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5665 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5666 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5667 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5670 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5671 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5672 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5675 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5676 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5677 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5679 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5680 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5681 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5682 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5683 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5684 so I produce this patch..."
5686 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5687 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5690 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5691 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5692 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5693 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5696 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5698 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5699 long debug lines gets shown.
5701 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5702 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5704 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5706 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5707 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5708 of $primary_hostname.
5710 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5711 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5712 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5713 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5714 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5715 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5716 by change 4.50/55 above.
5718 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5719 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5720 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5721 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5722 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5723 running as the user.
5726 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5727 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5728 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5731 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5732 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5734 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5735 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5736 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5737 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5738 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5740 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5741 This has been fixed.
5743 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5744 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5745 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5746 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5749 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5751 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5752 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5753 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5754 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5756 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5757 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5759 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5760 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5761 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5763 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5764 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5765 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5768 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5769 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5770 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5772 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5773 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5774 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5775 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5777 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5778 during host lookups.
5780 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5781 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5783 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5785 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5786 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5787 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5788 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5789 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5792 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5793 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5795 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5796 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5797 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5799 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5801 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5802 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5803 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5804 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5805 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5806 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5809 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5810 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5811 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5812 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5813 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5815 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5818 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5820 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5821 "vacation" handling.
5823 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5824 OS variants using glibc.
5826 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5829 ----------------------------------------------------
5830 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5831 ----------------------------------------------------
5837 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5838 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5841 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5842 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5845 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5846 filter fails to execute.
5848 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5849 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5850 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5851 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5852 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5854 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5855 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5856 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5857 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5859 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5860 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5861 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5862 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5863 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5865 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5867 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5868 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5869 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5870 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5872 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5873 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5874 sender verification.
5876 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5877 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5879 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5880 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5882 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5883 ignore_target_hosts.
5885 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5886 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5887 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5888 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5891 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5892 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5893 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5895 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5896 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5897 wake it up if nothing else does.
5899 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5900 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5901 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5904 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5905 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5907 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5909 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5910 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5913 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5914 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5917 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5918 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5919 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5920 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5921 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5924 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5925 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5928 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5929 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5930 $sender_host_address.
5932 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5934 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5935 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5936 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5938 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5941 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5942 (this can affect the format of dates).
5944 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5945 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5946 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5947 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5949 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5950 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5951 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5953 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5954 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5955 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5956 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5958 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5959 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5960 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5962 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5965 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5966 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5967 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5968 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5969 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5970 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5973 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5974 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5975 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5976 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5979 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5980 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5981 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5982 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5983 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5984 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5985 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5987 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5988 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5989 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5990 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5991 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5992 running as the user.
5995 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5996 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5997 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6000 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6001 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6002 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6003 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6004 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6006 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6007 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6008 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6009 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6012 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6013 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6014 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6015 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6016 because the tests only now provoked it.
6022 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6023 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6024 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6025 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6026 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6027 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6028 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6030 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6031 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6034 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6036 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6038 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6039 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6042 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6043 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6044 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6045 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6046 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6048 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6049 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6051 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6053 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6055 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6058 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6059 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6061 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6062 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6063 affecting debugging statements).
6065 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6067 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6068 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6069 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6070 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6071 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6072 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6073 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6074 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6075 after the received time, and all would be well.
6077 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6078 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6079 condition in an expansion string.
6081 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6083 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6084 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6085 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6086 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6087 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6088 job under whatever limits there are.
6090 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6092 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6095 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6096 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6097 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6098 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6101 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6102 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6103 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6104 binary data in such strings.
6106 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6108 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6109 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6110 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6111 failure, which is pointless.
6113 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6115 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6117 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6118 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6119 Sender: header lines.
6121 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6122 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6123 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6125 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6126 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6127 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6128 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6129 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6132 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6133 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6134 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6135 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6136 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6138 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6139 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6140 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6143 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6144 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6146 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6147 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6149 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6151 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6153 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6155 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6158 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6160 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6162 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6163 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6164 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6165 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6167 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6168 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6174 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6175 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6176 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6178 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6179 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6180 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6181 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6182 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6183 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6185 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6186 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6187 verification failure".
6189 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6190 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6191 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6192 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6194 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6195 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6196 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6197 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6198 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6199 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6200 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6201 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6202 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6203 treated as a timeout.
6205 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6206 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6207 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6208 not set for Exim filters).
6210 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6211 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6212 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6214 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6216 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6217 try to make them clearer.
6219 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6220 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6222 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6224 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6226 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6227 only the Cygwin environment.
6229 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6230 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6231 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6232 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6233 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6235 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6236 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6237 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6238 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6239 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6240 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6241 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6243 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6244 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6246 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6248 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6249 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6250 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6252 To: susanne@some.where
6254 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6255 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6256 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6257 of addresses in From: header lines).
6259 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6260 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6261 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6263 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6264 treated as non-personal.
6266 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6267 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6269 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6271 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6273 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6274 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6275 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6277 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6278 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6280 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6281 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6282 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6283 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6284 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6285 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6287 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6288 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6289 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6290 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6291 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6292 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6293 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6294 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6296 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6298 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6299 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6301 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6302 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6303 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6305 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6306 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6308 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6309 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6310 rather than long int.
6312 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6314 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6320 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6321 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6322 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6323 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6324 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6325 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6331 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6332 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6334 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6335 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6336 socklen_t is defined.
6338 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6341 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6344 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6345 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6346 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6347 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6348 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6350 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6351 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6352 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6353 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6355 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6356 of flapping under certain conditions.
6358 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6359 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6360 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6362 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6364 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6366 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6367 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6368 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6369 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6371 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6372 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6373 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6374 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6375 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6376 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6377 preserved with the message after it was received.
6379 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6380 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6381 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6382 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6383 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6384 test suite worked just fine.
6386 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6387 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6388 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6390 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6391 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6394 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6395 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6396 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6397 does not fully solve it.
6399 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6400 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6401 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6402 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6403 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6405 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6406 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6407 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6409 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6410 string, for example:
6412 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6414 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6415 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6416 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6417 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6418 the routers could not see them.
6420 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6421 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6423 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6424 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6427 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6428 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6429 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6430 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6431 that needed quoting.
6433 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6434 was not being matched caselessly.
6436 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6439 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6440 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6441 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6442 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6443 when use_sender is false.
6445 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6447 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6449 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6451 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6452 the configuration file.
6454 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6455 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6457 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6459 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6460 bytes in the message body.
6462 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6463 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6466 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6468 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6470 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6471 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6472 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6473 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6480 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6481 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6483 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6484 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6485 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6486 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6487 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6489 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6490 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6492 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6493 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6494 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6496 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6497 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6498 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6500 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6503 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6504 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6505 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6506 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6507 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6508 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6509 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6515 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6516 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6517 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6518 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6519 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6520 default (and expected) setting.
6522 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6523 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6524 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6525 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6527 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6528 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6530 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6533 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6534 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6535 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6536 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6537 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6538 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6540 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6541 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6542 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6544 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6545 part (NOT match_host).
6547 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6549 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6550 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6551 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6552 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6553 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6554 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6555 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6556 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6557 the same named file.
6559 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6560 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6563 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6564 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6565 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6566 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6569 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6570 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6571 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6573 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6575 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6577 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6579 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6580 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6582 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6583 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6584 before starting the TLS session.
6586 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6588 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6589 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6591 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6592 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6593 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6594 colon in the middle).
6600 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6601 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6602 multiple configurations are in use.
6604 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6605 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6606 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6607 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6608 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6609 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6611 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6612 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6614 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6615 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6616 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6618 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6619 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6622 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6623 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6625 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6627 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6628 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6630 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6638 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6639 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6640 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6641 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6642 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6644 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6647 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6648 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6649 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6650 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6651 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6652 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6654 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6655 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6656 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6657 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6658 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6659 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6660 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6663 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6664 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6665 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6666 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6667 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6669 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6671 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6672 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6673 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6675 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6677 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6678 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6679 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6682 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6683 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6685 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6686 Three changes have been made:
6688 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6689 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6690 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6691 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6692 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6694 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6697 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6698 the modified behaviour.
6704 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6707 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6708 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6710 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6711 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6712 try to track down a specific problem.
6714 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6715 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6716 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6718 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6721 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6722 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6723 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6724 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6725 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6726 some earlier ones do not.
6728 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6730 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6731 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6732 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6733 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6734 address literals are enabled, of course).
6736 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6738 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6739 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6740 by a command such as
6744 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6746 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6748 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6749 remained set. It is now erased.
6751 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6752 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6754 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6755 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6756 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6757 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6758 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6759 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6760 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6761 appropriate error code.
6763 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6764 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6765 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6766 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6767 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6768 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6770 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6771 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6772 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6774 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6775 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6776 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6777 terminate the header.
6779 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6780 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6781 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6783 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6784 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6785 (4.30/29). In particular:
6787 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6790 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6791 to write a maildirsize file.
6793 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6794 the transport, the new value overrides.
6796 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6799 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6800 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6801 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6804 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6805 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6806 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6809 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6810 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6811 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6813 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6814 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6817 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6818 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6819 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6821 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6823 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6825 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6827 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6828 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6831 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6832 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6833 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6834 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6835 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6836 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6837 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6840 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6841 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6842 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6843 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6844 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6847 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6848 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6849 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6850 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6851 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6852 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6853 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6854 cached value only when the same options are set.
6856 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6858 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6859 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6860 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6861 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6862 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6864 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6865 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6866 it is clearly obsolete.
6868 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6871 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6872 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6873 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6876 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6877 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6878 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6879 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6880 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6882 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6883 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6884 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6885 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6887 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6889 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6891 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6892 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6895 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6896 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6897 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6898 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6899 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6900 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6903 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6904 with the -f command-line option.
6906 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6907 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6908 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6909 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6910 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6911 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6913 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6914 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6917 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6918 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6919 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6920 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6921 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6922 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6923 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6924 buffer is too small.
6926 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6927 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6929 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6930 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6931 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6932 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6933 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6934 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6935 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6936 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6937 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6939 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6940 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6941 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6943 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6944 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6947 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6948 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6949 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6950 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6951 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6953 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6954 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6955 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6956 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6959 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6961 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6963 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6964 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6966 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6967 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6968 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6970 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6971 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6972 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6973 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6974 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6976 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6977 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6978 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6979 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6980 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6981 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6982 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6984 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6985 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6986 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6987 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6988 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6989 the test of how many are available.
6991 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6992 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6993 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6994 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6995 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6996 new message is started.
6998 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6999 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7001 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7002 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7004 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7005 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7006 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7009 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7010 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7011 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7012 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7013 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7014 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7015 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7017 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7018 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7019 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7020 interpreted as octal.
7022 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7025 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7026 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7027 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7028 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7029 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7030 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7032 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7033 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7034 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7035 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7037 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7038 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7039 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7040 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7042 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7043 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7046 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7047 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7049 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7051 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7052 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7053 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7054 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7056 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7057 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7058 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7059 supplied", which is not helpful.
7061 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7062 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7063 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7065 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7066 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7067 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7068 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7069 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7070 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7071 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7072 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7074 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7075 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7076 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7077 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7078 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7080 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7081 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7082 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7083 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7084 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7085 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7087 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7088 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7089 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7091 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7093 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7094 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7095 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7098 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7100 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7101 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7102 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7103 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7104 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7105 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7106 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7107 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7109 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7110 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7111 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7112 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7113 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7115 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7118 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7119 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7120 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7121 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7122 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7123 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7124 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7125 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7126 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7132 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7133 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7134 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7136 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7139 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7140 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7141 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7143 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7144 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7145 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7146 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7147 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7148 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7150 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7151 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7152 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7153 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7154 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7155 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7156 the Exim test suite.
7158 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7159 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7160 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7161 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7163 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7164 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7165 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7166 specify it in this variable.
7168 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7169 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7170 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7171 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7173 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7174 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7175 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7176 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7178 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7179 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7180 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7181 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7182 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7184 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7186 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7189 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7190 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7191 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7192 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7193 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7195 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7196 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7198 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7199 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7200 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7201 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7202 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7204 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7205 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7207 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7208 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7209 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7211 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7212 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7214 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7215 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7217 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7218 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7219 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7221 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7222 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7224 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7225 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7226 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7227 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7229 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7231 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7232 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7233 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7234 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7236 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7238 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7239 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7241 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7243 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7244 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7245 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7246 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7247 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7248 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7250 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7252 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7253 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7256 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7258 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7259 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7261 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7262 550 Sender verify failed
7264 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7265 the final line of the response.
7267 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7268 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7269 all other user lookups.
7271 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7274 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7275 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7276 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7277 result into an int without checking.
7279 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7280 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7281 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7283 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7284 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7285 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7286 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7288 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7291 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7292 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7294 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7295 to the empty sender.
7297 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7298 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7299 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7300 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7301 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7302 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7303 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7306 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7307 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7308 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7309 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7312 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7313 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7315 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7318 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7319 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7321 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7323 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7324 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7327 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7328 as soon as it is encountered.
7330 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7332 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7335 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7336 recognizes a tab character.
7338 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7339 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7340 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7341 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7343 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7345 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7348 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7350 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7352 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7353 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7356 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7357 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7358 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7359 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7360 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7362 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7363 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7365 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7366 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7367 list (.included file names were always shown).
7369 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7370 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7371 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7374 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7375 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7377 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7379 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7381 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7383 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7384 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7385 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7386 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7387 failures to open the logs.
7389 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7390 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7391 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7392 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7393 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7394 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7395 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7401 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7402 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7403 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7406 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7407 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7408 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7410 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7411 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7412 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7414 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7415 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7416 causing some misleading effects.
7418 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7419 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7420 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7422 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7423 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7424 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7425 queue-runner function directly.
7431 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7434 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7435 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7436 was always written to the default place.
7438 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7439 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7440 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7442 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7444 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7446 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7447 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7448 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7450 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7451 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7454 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7455 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7456 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7458 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7459 command line option is disabled.
7461 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7462 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7464 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7466 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7468 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7469 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7471 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7473 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7474 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7475 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7476 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7477 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7478 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7480 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7481 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7484 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7485 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7487 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7488 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7490 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7491 received was valid base64.
7493 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7494 name of the variable that was being set.
7496 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7498 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7499 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7500 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7501 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7502 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7503 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7505 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7507 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7508 nor realm was specified.
7510 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7511 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7512 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7513 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7515 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7516 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7517 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7519 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7520 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7521 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7523 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7524 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7525 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7526 some systems use these upper case variants.
7528 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7529 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7530 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7531 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7533 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7535 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7536 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7538 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7539 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7542 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7544 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7545 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7546 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7547 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7549 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7552 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7553 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7554 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7556 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7557 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7559 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7560 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7561 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7562 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7564 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7565 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7566 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7568 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7570 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7571 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7572 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7573 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7576 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7577 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7578 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7580 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7582 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7583 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7585 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7586 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7588 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7589 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7590 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7591 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7592 when emails are that large.
7599 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7600 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7602 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7603 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7604 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7606 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7607 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7608 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7610 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7611 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7612 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7613 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7614 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7616 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7617 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7618 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7619 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7620 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7623 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7624 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7625 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7626 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7627 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7628 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7629 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7630 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7631 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7632 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7633 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7634 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7635 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7636 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7638 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7639 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7642 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7643 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7644 error should be diagnosed.
7646 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7647 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7648 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7649 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7650 appeared instead of "NULL".
7652 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7653 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7654 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7655 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7656 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7657 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7660 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7661 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7662 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7668 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7669 or receiver verification errors.
7671 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7674 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7675 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7676 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7677 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7679 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7680 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7681 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7682 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7683 shouldn't happen again.
7685 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7686 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7687 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7689 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7690 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7692 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7694 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7695 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7697 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7698 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7701 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7702 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7703 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7705 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7706 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7707 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7708 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7710 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7711 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7712 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7713 to define what should happen).
7715 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7716 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7717 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7719 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7721 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7723 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7724 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7726 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7727 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7728 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7729 structure in all cases.
7731 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7732 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7733 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7734 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7736 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7737 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7740 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7741 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7743 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7744 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7746 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7747 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7748 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7750 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7751 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7752 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7754 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7755 the book and for uniformity.
7757 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7759 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7760 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7761 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7762 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7763 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7764 non-existent command as the problem.
7766 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7767 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7768 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7770 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7772 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7773 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7774 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7776 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7777 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7778 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7779 timestamps using strftime().
7781 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7782 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7784 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7785 transport-time rewrites.
7787 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7788 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7789 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7790 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7792 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7793 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7795 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7796 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7797 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7798 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7801 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7802 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7803 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7804 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7805 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7806 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7807 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7809 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7810 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7811 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7812 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7813 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7815 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7816 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7817 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7818 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7819 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7820 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7821 remaining text gets split now.
7823 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7824 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7825 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7826 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7828 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7829 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7830 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7831 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7834 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7835 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7836 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7837 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7838 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7839 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7840 passed through if needed.
7842 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7843 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7844 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7845 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7846 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7847 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7849 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7850 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7851 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7852 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7853 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7855 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7856 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7857 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7858 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7859 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7861 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7862 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7865 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7866 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7867 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7868 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7869 mayhem of various kinds.
7871 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7872 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7873 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7874 the right test for positive values.
7876 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7877 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7878 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7879 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7880 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7881 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7882 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7883 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7884 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7885 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7888 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7891 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7892 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7895 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7896 the existing equality matching.
7898 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7899 dealing with inode numbers.
7901 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7902 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7903 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7905 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7906 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7907 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7908 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7911 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7912 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7913 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7914 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7915 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7916 relay addresses has also been removed.
7918 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7920 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7921 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7922 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7924 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7925 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7926 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7927 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7928 processing applies to CR:
7930 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7931 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7933 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7934 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7935 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7936 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7938 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7939 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7940 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7942 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7943 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7944 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7945 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7946 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7947 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7950 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7953 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7954 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7955 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7956 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7959 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7961 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7963 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7965 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7966 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7967 not considered personal.
7969 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7971 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7973 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7975 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7976 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7977 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7978 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7979 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7980 header lines, and spool format errors.
7982 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7983 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7984 for more flexibility.
7986 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7987 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7988 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7990 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7993 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7994 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7995 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7996 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7997 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7998 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7999 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8000 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8001 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8003 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8004 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8005 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8006 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8007 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8008 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8009 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8011 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8012 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8013 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8015 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8016 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8017 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8018 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8019 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8020 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8021 instead of killing the process with assert().
8023 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8024 than Unicode encoding.
8026 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8027 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8028 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8029 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8031 77. Added process_log_path.
8033 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8034 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8036 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8037 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8039 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8040 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8041 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8043 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8044 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8045 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8046 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8047 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8050 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8051 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8054 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8055 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8056 they will be used during message reception.
8062 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.