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()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
281 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
283 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
284 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
285 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
286 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
288 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
289 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
291 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
292 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
293 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
294 mode until after various protocol state checks.
295 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
297 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
299 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
300 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
302 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
309 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
310 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
311 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
313 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
315 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
316 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
319 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
320 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
321 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
323 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
325 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
327 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
328 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
329 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
331 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
332 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
333 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
335 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
336 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
338 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
339 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
342 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
343 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
344 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
345 should both provide the file and set the option.
346 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
348 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
349 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
351 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
352 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
353 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
354 Authentication-Results: header.
356 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
357 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
358 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
359 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
361 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
362 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
363 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
364 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
365 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
366 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
367 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
369 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
370 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
371 copies while it is still usable.
373 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
374 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
375 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
377 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
378 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
380 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
381 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
382 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
383 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
385 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
386 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
387 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
390 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
391 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
392 - the pipe transport command
393 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
394 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
396 - paths used by single-key lookups
397 Previously this was permitted.
399 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
400 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
401 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
402 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
404 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
405 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
406 support larger malloc requests.
408 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
409 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
410 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
411 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
413 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
414 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
415 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
416 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
419 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
420 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
421 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
422 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
423 data being length-specified.
425 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
426 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
427 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
428 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
430 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
431 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
432 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
433 not being properly tracked.
435 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
436 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
437 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
438 minute could be seen.
440 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
441 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
442 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
444 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
445 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
447 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
448 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
451 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
453 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
454 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
456 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
457 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
458 filesystem as sufficient validation.
460 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
461 argument is supplied.
463 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
464 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
465 access under Exim's current working directory.
467 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
468 Previously no event was raised.
470 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
471 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
472 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
475 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
476 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
477 the size of the signature hash.
479 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
480 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
482 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
483 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
484 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
485 dropped between messages.
487 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
488 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
489 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
490 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
492 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
493 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
494 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
495 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
496 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
497 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
498 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
499 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
500 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
502 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
503 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
504 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
506 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
507 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
514 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
515 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
517 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
518 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
521 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
524 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
526 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
528 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
529 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
531 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
532 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
533 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
534 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
535 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
536 suitably configured).
538 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
539 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
541 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
542 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
545 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
546 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
548 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
549 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
550 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
551 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
554 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
555 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
556 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
558 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
561 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
562 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
564 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
565 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
566 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
567 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
570 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
571 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
572 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
573 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
576 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
577 shared (NFS) environment.
579 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
580 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
583 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
584 on some platforms for bit 31.
586 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
587 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
588 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
589 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
590 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
591 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
592 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
593 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
595 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
597 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
598 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
600 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
601 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
604 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
605 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
608 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
609 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
610 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
613 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
614 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
615 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
617 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
618 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
619 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
620 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
621 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
623 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
626 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
627 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
628 be requested on all coneections.
630 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
631 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
633 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
635 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
636 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
637 one for these; the option was ignored.
639 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
640 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
641 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
642 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
644 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
645 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
646 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
649 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
650 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
651 error ignored was made.
653 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
655 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
656 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
657 values, to catch one form of exploit.
659 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
660 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
661 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
663 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
664 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
667 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
668 them in our smtp response.
670 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
671 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
672 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
673 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
674 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
676 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
677 link count into consideration.
679 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
680 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
682 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
683 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
684 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
687 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
689 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
691 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
693 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
694 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
695 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
696 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
698 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
700 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
701 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
704 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
705 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
706 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
708 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
709 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
710 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
712 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
713 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
714 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
715 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
716 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
717 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
718 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
719 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
721 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
722 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
723 resulted in an indefinite loop.
725 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
726 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
727 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
733 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
734 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
736 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
737 non-signal-safe functions being used.
739 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
740 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
741 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
743 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
744 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
745 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
747 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
748 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
749 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
750 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
751 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
754 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
755 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
757 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
758 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
759 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
760 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
761 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
762 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
763 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
765 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
766 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
768 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
771 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
772 Previously this would segfault.
774 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
777 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
778 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
779 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
780 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
781 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
782 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
784 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
786 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
787 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
788 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
789 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
791 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
793 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
794 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
795 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
796 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
798 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
800 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
802 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
803 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
804 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
806 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
807 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
808 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
810 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
812 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
813 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
814 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
815 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
817 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
818 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
819 promised '?' replacement.
821 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
823 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
824 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
825 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
826 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
827 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
829 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
830 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
831 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
833 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
834 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
835 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
837 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
838 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
839 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
841 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
842 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
843 hope that is portable enough.
845 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
846 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
847 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
848 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
850 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
851 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
852 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
854 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
855 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
856 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
857 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
859 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
860 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
862 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
863 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
864 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
865 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
867 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
868 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
869 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
871 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
872 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
873 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
874 the previous G, M, k.
876 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
877 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
880 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
881 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
882 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
883 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
885 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
886 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
888 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
889 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
890 off past the nul-terimation.
892 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
893 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
894 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
895 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
896 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
898 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
900 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
901 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
902 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
905 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
906 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
908 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
909 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
910 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
912 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
913 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
914 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
916 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
917 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
923 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
924 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
925 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
926 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
927 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
928 be defined in redis_servers.
930 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
931 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
933 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
934 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
935 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
936 extant use locations.
938 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
939 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
941 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
942 Previously only the last row was returned.
944 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
945 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
946 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
947 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
950 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
951 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
952 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
953 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
954 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
955 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
956 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
957 Main pool for expansions.
958 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
959 active in the testsuite.
960 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
962 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
963 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
964 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
965 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
968 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
969 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
972 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
973 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
974 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
976 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
977 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
978 ClamAV interface method is removed.
980 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
981 rows affected is given instead).
983 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
984 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
986 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
987 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
988 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
989 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
990 for all multi-message initiating connections.
992 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
993 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
994 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
996 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
997 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
998 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
999 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1002 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1003 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1004 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1007 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1009 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1010 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1012 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1013 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1014 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1016 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1017 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1018 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1021 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1022 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1024 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1025 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1026 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1028 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1029 for the build is renamed.
1031 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1032 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1033 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1035 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1036 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1037 result replacing the original.
1039 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1040 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1041 and the resources needed to be freed.
1043 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1045 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1048 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1049 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1050 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1051 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1053 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1054 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1056 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1057 newer versions of the scanner.
1059 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1060 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1061 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1062 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1063 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1064 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1065 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1067 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1068 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1069 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1070 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1071 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1072 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1073 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1074 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1075 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1076 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1078 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1079 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1081 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1083 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1084 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1086 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1087 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1089 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1090 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1091 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1093 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1094 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1095 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1096 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1098 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1099 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1102 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1103 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1105 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1106 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1107 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1108 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1109 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1111 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1112 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1115 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1116 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1118 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1121 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1122 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1123 "bare" representation.
1125 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1126 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1127 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1128 corrupted the output.
1134 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1135 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1136 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1137 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1139 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1140 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1142 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1143 This permits better logging.
1145 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1146 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1147 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1148 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1149 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1150 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1152 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1153 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1156 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1157 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1158 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1160 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1161 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1163 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1164 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1165 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1166 client, there is no benefit for these.
1167 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1168 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1169 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1172 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1173 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1175 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1176 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1177 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1179 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1180 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1182 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1183 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1184 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1185 signature and again for transmission.
1187 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1188 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1189 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1191 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1192 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1193 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1194 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1195 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1196 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1197 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1199 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1200 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1201 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1202 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1204 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1205 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1206 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1207 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1208 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1209 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1212 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1213 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1214 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1215 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1218 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1219 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1220 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1221 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1224 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1225 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1228 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1229 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1230 banner-time rejection.
1232 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1235 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1236 is the name of a transport.
1239 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1241 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1242 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1244 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1245 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1246 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1249 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1250 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1251 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1252 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1254 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1255 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1256 initial verify call returned a defer.
1258 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1259 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1261 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1262 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1264 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1265 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1267 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1268 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1270 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1271 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1274 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1275 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1277 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1278 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1279 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1281 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1282 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1283 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1284 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1286 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1287 and confused the parent.
1289 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1290 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1292 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1295 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1296 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1297 out-of-order delivery.
1299 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1300 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1301 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1304 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1305 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1308 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1309 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1310 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1312 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1313 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1314 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1315 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1316 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1317 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1319 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1320 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1321 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1323 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1324 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1325 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1327 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1328 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1329 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1330 though a different problem.
1336 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1337 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1339 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1341 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1342 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1344 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1345 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1347 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1348 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1349 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1350 before acknowledging the chunk.
1352 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1353 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1354 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1356 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1357 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1358 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1361 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1362 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1363 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1365 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1366 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1368 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1369 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1370 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1371 body hash calculated value.
1373 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1374 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1375 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1377 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1379 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1380 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1382 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1383 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1384 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1386 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1387 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1388 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1389 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1390 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1391 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1393 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1394 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1395 past that check, despite the cost.
1397 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1398 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1399 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1401 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1402 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1403 TLS library to consume.
1405 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1407 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1409 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1410 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1411 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1412 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1413 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1414 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1415 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1417 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1419 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1421 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1422 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1423 should be warning-free.
1425 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1427 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1428 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1430 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1431 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1432 general solution here.
1434 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1435 already-broken messages in the queue.
1437 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1439 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1445 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1446 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1448 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1449 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1450 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1452 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1453 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1454 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1455 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1456 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1457 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1458 if one fails this test.
1459 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1460 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1462 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1463 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1465 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1466 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1468 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1469 in rewrites and routers.
1471 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1472 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1474 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1475 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1477 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1479 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1482 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1483 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1484 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1485 connection after a verify cache hit.
1486 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1488 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1489 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1491 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1492 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1493 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1494 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1495 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1497 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1498 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1500 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1501 Previously they were not counted.
1503 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1504 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1505 that needed the lookup.
1507 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1508 distinguished as "(=".
1510 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1511 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1513 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1515 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1516 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1518 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1519 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1521 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1522 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1525 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1526 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1527 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1528 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1530 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1532 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1533 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1534 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1536 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1537 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1538 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1541 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1542 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1543 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1546 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1547 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1548 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1550 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1551 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1554 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1556 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1557 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1559 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1560 are not in the system include path.
1562 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1563 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1564 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1565 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1567 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1568 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1569 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1571 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1573 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1574 an incoming connection.
1576 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1579 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1580 fallback to "prime256v1".
1582 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1583 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1589 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1590 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1591 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1592 client dropping the TLS connection.
1594 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1595 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1597 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1598 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1599 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1600 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1603 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1604 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1605 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1606 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1607 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1608 check on the next write.
1610 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1611 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1612 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1613 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1614 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1616 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1617 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1619 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1620 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1621 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1623 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1624 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1625 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1626 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1628 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1629 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1631 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1632 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1634 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1635 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1636 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1639 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1641 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1643 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1645 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1646 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1648 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1649 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1651 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1653 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1654 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1656 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1658 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1659 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1661 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1663 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1664 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1665 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1666 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1667 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1668 they will retry in-clear.
1669 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1670 at installation time.
1672 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1673 with the $config_file variable.
1675 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1676 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1677 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1678 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1679 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1681 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1682 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1683 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1684 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1685 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1687 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1689 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1690 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1691 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1692 list order is no longer honoured.
1694 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1695 for DKIM processing.
1697 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1698 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1700 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1701 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1702 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1703 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1705 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1706 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1708 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1709 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1711 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1712 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1714 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1716 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1717 cached by the daemon.
1719 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1720 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1722 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1723 keys are given for lookup.
1725 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1726 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1727 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1728 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1730 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1731 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1732 server-side so match that on older versions.
1734 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1735 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1736 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1738 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1739 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1741 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1742 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1743 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1744 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1745 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1746 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1747 initial truncated version.
1749 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1751 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1753 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1754 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1756 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1758 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1760 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1761 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1764 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1765 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1768 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1769 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1771 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1772 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1775 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1776 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1777 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1779 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1780 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1781 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1782 extraction. Accept either.
1788 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1791 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1793 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1796 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1797 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1798 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1799 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1801 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1802 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1803 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1805 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1806 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1807 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1810 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1813 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1814 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1815 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1816 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1817 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1819 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1820 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1821 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1823 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1825 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1826 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1828 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1829 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1831 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1834 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1835 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1837 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1838 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1839 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1841 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1842 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1843 specify a port-range.
1845 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1846 timeout value per server.
1848 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1849 now have the list separator specified.
1851 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1854 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1857 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1859 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1860 rather than the verbs used.
1862 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1863 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1865 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1867 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1868 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1870 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1871 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1873 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1874 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1876 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1878 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1880 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1881 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1882 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1883 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1885 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1887 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1888 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1890 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1891 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1893 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1895 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1897 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1899 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1900 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1902 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1903 added for tls authenticator.
1905 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1911 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1912 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1913 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1914 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1915 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1916 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1917 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1919 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1920 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1921 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1922 function when detected.
1924 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1925 cause callback expansion.
1927 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1928 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1929 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1930 instead of bool when processing it.
1932 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1933 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1935 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1937 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1939 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1941 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1942 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1944 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1945 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1946 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1947 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1948 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1949 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1951 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1952 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1955 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1956 version 3.3.6 or later.
1958 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1959 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1960 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1961 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1962 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1963 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1966 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1967 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1969 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1970 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1971 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1974 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1975 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1976 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1978 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1979 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1981 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1982 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1985 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1987 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1988 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1990 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1991 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1994 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1996 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1999 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2000 output list separator was used.
2005 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2006 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2009 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2010 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2012 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2014 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2015 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2021 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2023 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2024 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2025 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2026 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2027 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2028 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2030 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2031 utilities have not been installed.
2033 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2034 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2036 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2037 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2039 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2040 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2041 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2042 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2044 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2046 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2047 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2049 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2052 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2054 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2055 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2056 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2058 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2059 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2060 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2061 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2062 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2063 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2065 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2067 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2068 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2070 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2073 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2075 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2077 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2078 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2080 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2081 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2083 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2085 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2087 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2088 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2090 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2091 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2092 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2094 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2095 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2096 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2099 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2101 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2102 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2105 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2106 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2109 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2110 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2112 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2113 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2115 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2117 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2118 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2119 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2121 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2122 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2124 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2125 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2128 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2129 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2130 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2132 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2134 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2135 Christian Aistleitner.
2137 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2139 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2140 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2142 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2143 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2145 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2146 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2148 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2149 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2151 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2152 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2154 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2155 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2156 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2158 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2160 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2161 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2164 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2166 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2167 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2174 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2176 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2177 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2179 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2182 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2183 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2186 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2188 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2189 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2190 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2191 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2192 using channel bindings instead).
2194 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2195 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2196 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2197 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2198 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2201 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2203 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2205 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2206 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2208 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2209 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2210 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2212 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2214 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2216 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2217 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2219 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2221 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2223 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2225 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2226 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2228 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2230 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2231 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2234 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2235 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2237 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2238 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2241 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2243 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2245 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2246 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2248 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2251 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2252 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2254 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2255 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2257 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2259 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2261 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2264 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2267 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2269 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2270 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2271 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2272 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2274 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2276 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2277 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2278 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2279 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2282 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2283 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2284 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2286 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2287 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2288 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2289 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2291 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2292 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2293 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2294 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2295 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2296 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2297 delivery, as in LMTP.
2299 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2300 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2302 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2304 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2308 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2309 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2310 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2311 username as equal to the username.
2313 This change corrects that bug.
2315 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2316 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2317 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2319 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2321 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2322 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2323 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2324 NULL dereference and crash.
2326 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2328 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2329 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2330 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2332 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2334 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2335 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2336 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2337 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2338 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2339 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2340 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2341 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2342 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2343 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2344 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2346 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2347 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2349 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2350 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2353 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2354 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2355 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2356 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2357 an empty string is now equivalent.
2359 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2360 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2361 not performing validation itself.
2363 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2364 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2366 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2369 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2371 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2372 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2373 other false fix of the same issue.
2374 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2377 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2378 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2380 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2381 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2382 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2384 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2385 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2386 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2388 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2390 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2392 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2393 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2395 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2398 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2399 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2400 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2401 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2402 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2404 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2405 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2407 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2408 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2411 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2412 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2413 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2414 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2416 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2418 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2419 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2420 from multiple comments on this bug.
2422 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2424 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2425 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2428 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2429 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2431 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2432 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2438 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2440 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2446 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2447 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2448 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2450 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2452 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2455 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2457 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2459 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2461 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2462 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2464 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2465 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2467 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2468 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2470 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2471 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2472 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2474 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2476 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2477 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2479 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2481 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2483 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2484 non-compliant senders.
2485 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2487 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2488 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2489 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2491 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2492 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2493 in spool file corruption.
2495 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2496 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2497 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2500 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2501 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2502 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2504 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2505 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2507 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2509 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2511 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2513 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2514 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2515 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2517 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2518 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2519 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2520 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2522 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2523 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2525 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2526 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2527 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2528 resolver implementation change.
2530 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2531 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2533 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2535 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2537 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2538 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2540 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2541 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2543 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2544 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2546 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2547 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2548 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2549 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2550 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2552 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2554 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2555 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2556 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2558 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2560 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2561 read-only, out of scope).
2562 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2564 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2565 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2566 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2567 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2569 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2571 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2572 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2573 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2574 real issues in debug logging.
2576 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2577 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2579 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2580 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2581 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2583 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2584 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2585 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2588 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2589 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2591 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2592 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2593 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2594 needs to override this, it can.
2596 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2597 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2598 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2600 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2601 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2602 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2603 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2605 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2611 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2612 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2614 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2616 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2619 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2620 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2622 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2623 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2624 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2626 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2627 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2628 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2629 not safe for signals.
2631 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2632 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2633 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2634 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2637 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2639 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2640 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2641 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2642 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2643 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2645 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2646 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2647 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2648 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2649 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2650 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2652 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2653 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2654 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2655 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2657 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2658 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2659 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2660 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2662 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2663 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2664 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2665 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2666 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2667 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2668 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2669 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2670 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2672 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2673 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2674 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2675 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2677 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2678 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2679 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2680 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2681 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2682 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2683 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2684 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2685 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2686 details in the main documentation.
2688 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2690 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2692 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2693 repository when doing development or release builds.
2695 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2696 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2698 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2699 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2702 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2704 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2705 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2707 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2708 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2710 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2711 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2713 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2714 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2716 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2717 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2719 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2721 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2724 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2725 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2726 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2728 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2730 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2732 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2733 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2739 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2741 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2742 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2744 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2746 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2748 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2751 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2752 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2754 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2755 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2757 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2758 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2760 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2763 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2764 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2766 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2767 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2768 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2769 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2771 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2772 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2778 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2781 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2782 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2783 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2785 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2786 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2788 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2789 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2790 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2792 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2793 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2795 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2796 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2798 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2799 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2801 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2802 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2804 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2805 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2807 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2810 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2811 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2813 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2814 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2816 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2817 SQL string expansion failure details.
2818 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2820 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2821 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2823 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2824 extern declarations in function scope.
2825 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2827 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2828 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2829 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2832 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2833 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2835 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2836 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2838 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2839 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2841 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2842 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2844 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2845 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2848 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2850 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2852 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2853 Patch by Simon Arlott
2855 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2856 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2862 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2863 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2865 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2866 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2868 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2870 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2871 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2872 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2874 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2875 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2876 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2878 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2879 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2880 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2881 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2883 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2884 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2885 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2886 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2888 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2889 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2890 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2893 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2896 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2897 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2898 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2899 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2900 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2906 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2907 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2908 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2910 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2911 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2913 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2915 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2917 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2919 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2921 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2923 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2924 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2925 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2926 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2928 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2929 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2930 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2931 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2932 more caution in buffer sizes.
2934 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2936 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2938 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2940 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2942 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2944 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2946 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2948 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2949 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2950 ignore trailing whitespace.
2952 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2954 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2957 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2958 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2960 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2961 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2962 Notification from John Horne.
2964 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2967 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2968 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2971 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2974 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2975 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2976 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2978 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2979 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2980 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2983 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2984 option (effectively making it always true).
2986 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2987 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2989 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2990 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2992 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2993 run-time user, instead of root.
2995 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2996 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2998 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2999 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3002 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3003 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3004 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3006 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3008 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3014 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3015 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3018 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3019 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3022 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3023 Patch from Alain Williams
3025 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3027 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3028 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3030 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3031 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3033 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3035 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3037 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3038 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3040 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3042 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3044 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3045 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3046 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3048 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3049 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3051 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3052 Patch by Simon Arlott
3054 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3055 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3061 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3063 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3065 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3067 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3069 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3075 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3076 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3078 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3079 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3082 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3083 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3084 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3086 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3087 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3089 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3090 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3091 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3092 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3094 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3095 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3096 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3098 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3100 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3102 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3103 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3105 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3107 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3108 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3109 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3110 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3112 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3113 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3115 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3117 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3119 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3120 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3122 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3123 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3125 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3126 that they are available at delivery time.
3128 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3130 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3131 incoming_port log selectors.
3133 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3134 setting expands to an empty string.
3136 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3137 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3139 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3140 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3142 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3143 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3145 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3146 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3148 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3149 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3151 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3152 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3154 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3156 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3157 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3159 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3160 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3162 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3164 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3165 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3167 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3169 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3171 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3174 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3175 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3177 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3178 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3180 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3181 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3183 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3184 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3186 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3187 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3189 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3190 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3192 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3193 plus update to original patch.
3195 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3197 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3198 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3200 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3202 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3204 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3206 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3208 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3209 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3211 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3212 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3214 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3215 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3217 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3218 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3220 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3222 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3224 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3226 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3232 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3233 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3234 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3236 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3237 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3238 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3239 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3240 build errors in sieve.c.
3242 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3243 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3244 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3246 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3248 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3250 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3252 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3258 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3260 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3261 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3262 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3263 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3264 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3265 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3266 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3267 for iplsearch lookups.
3269 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3270 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3271 previously such lookups could never work.
3273 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3274 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3275 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3277 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3280 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3281 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3282 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3283 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3284 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3285 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3287 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3288 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3290 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3291 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3292 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3293 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3294 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3295 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3297 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3300 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3302 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3303 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3306 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3307 by clients under certain conditions.
3309 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3310 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3312 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3314 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3315 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3317 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3319 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3321 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3323 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3324 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3326 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3328 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3329 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3331 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3333 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3335 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3336 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3337 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3338 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3340 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3341 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3342 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3344 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3345 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3347 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3349 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3351 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3353 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3354 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3355 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3361 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3362 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3365 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3366 issue a MAIL command.
3368 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3370 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3372 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3373 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3374 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3375 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3376 item. This has been fixed.
3378 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3379 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3381 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3382 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3384 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3385 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3386 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3388 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3390 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3391 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3392 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3393 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3394 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3396 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3397 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3398 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3400 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3401 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3402 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3403 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3405 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3407 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3409 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3410 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3411 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3412 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3413 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3415 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3417 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3418 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3419 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3422 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3424 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3426 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3428 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3430 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3432 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3433 no_callout_flush is set.
3435 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3436 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3437 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3440 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3442 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3443 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3444 other ACL rejections are.
3446 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3447 with slight modification.
3449 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3450 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3452 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3453 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3456 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3457 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3459 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3461 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3462 expansion side effects.
3464 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3465 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3466 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3469 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3470 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3471 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3473 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3474 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3475 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3476 were accidentally chopped off.
3478 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3479 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3480 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3481 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3482 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3483 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3484 pipelining has not been advertised.
3486 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3488 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3489 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3490 This has been fixed.
3492 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3493 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3494 reported on Solaris.
3496 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3497 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3498 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3499 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3500 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3501 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3502 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3504 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3507 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3509 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3511 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3512 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3513 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3514 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3515 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3516 criteria to be more general.
3518 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3519 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3520 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3521 host_all_ignored option.
3523 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3524 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3525 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3526 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3527 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3528 is what is supposed to happen).
3530 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3531 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3532 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3533 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3534 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3537 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3538 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3539 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3540 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3541 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3542 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3545 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3547 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3548 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3550 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3551 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3553 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3555 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3557 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3558 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3559 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3560 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3561 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3562 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3563 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3564 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3565 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3566 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3567 least in a lot of common cases.
3569 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3570 advertised in response to EHLO.
3576 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3577 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3579 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3580 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3582 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3583 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3584 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3586 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3587 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3588 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3589 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3590 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3596 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3597 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3600 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3601 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3602 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3604 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3605 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3606 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3607 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3608 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3609 rather than extend the field.
3615 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3616 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3617 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3618 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3621 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3622 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3623 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3625 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3626 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3627 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3629 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3630 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3631 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3634 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3635 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3636 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3637 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3638 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3639 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3640 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3641 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3642 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3643 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3644 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3646 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3649 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3650 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3651 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3652 ignores EPIPE as well.
3654 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3655 (quoted-printable decoding).
3657 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3658 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3660 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3662 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3664 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3666 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3667 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3669 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3672 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3673 miscellaneous code fixes
3675 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3678 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3679 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3680 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3681 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3682 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3683 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3684 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3685 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3687 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3688 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3689 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3690 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3692 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3693 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3694 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3695 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3696 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3697 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3698 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3699 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3700 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3702 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3705 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3706 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3707 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3708 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3709 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3710 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3711 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3712 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3714 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3715 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3718 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3719 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3720 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3721 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3722 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3723 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3724 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3725 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3726 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3727 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3728 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3729 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3730 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3732 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3733 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3734 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3735 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3736 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3737 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3738 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3740 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3741 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3742 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3743 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3744 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3745 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3746 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3747 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3748 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3749 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3751 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3752 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3753 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3754 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3755 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3757 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3758 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3759 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3760 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3761 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3762 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3763 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3765 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3766 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3767 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3768 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3769 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3770 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3773 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3774 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3775 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3778 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3779 if any retry times were supplied.
3781 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3782 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3783 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3785 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3787 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3789 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3790 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3791 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3792 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3793 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3794 before) are ignored.
3796 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3797 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3799 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3800 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3801 committing the later change.]
3803 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3804 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3805 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3806 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3807 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3808 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3809 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3810 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3811 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3813 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3814 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3815 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3816 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3817 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3818 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3819 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3820 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3821 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3823 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3824 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3825 hammering the server.
3827 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3828 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3830 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3832 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3833 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3834 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3836 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3837 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3838 one case where this was not true.
3840 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3841 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3842 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3843 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3846 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3847 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3848 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3849 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3850 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3851 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3852 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3853 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3854 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3857 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3858 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3859 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3860 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3862 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3863 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3865 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3866 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3867 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3869 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3871 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3873 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3875 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3876 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3877 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3878 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3880 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3881 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3883 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3884 be meaningful with "accept".
3886 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3887 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3889 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3890 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3891 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3893 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3894 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3895 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3896 there is data to show.
3897 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3899 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3900 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3901 as well as the number of messages.
3903 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3904 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3905 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3907 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3908 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3909 have a flag are now skipped.
3911 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3912 Added the -emptyok flag.
3914 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3915 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3917 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3918 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3919 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3921 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3924 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3925 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3927 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3929 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3930 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3932 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3934 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3935 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3936 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3937 contravention of the specifications.
3939 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3940 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3941 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3943 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3944 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3945 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3947 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3949 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3950 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3951 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3952 some point in the past.
3954 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3955 transport during callout processing was broken.
3957 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3958 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3960 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3961 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3963 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3964 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3966 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3972 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3973 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3975 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3976 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3977 there is data to show.
3978 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3980 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3981 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3983 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3984 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3986 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3987 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3989 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3990 submissions from trusted users.
3992 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3993 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3995 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3996 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3997 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3998 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3999 there is now a framework to start from.
4001 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4002 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4003 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4005 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4007 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4009 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4011 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4012 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4013 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4015 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4018 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4019 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4020 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4022 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4023 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4024 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4027 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4028 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4029 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4030 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4031 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4033 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4034 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4036 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4038 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4039 operations in malware.c.
4041 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4044 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4045 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4046 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4049 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4050 statements to "add_header".
4052 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4053 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4055 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4056 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4059 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4063 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4064 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4065 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4068 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4069 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4071 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4072 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4074 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4075 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4076 any possible encoding problems.
4078 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4079 but not after initializing Perl.
4081 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4082 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4083 apparently, which is not desirable.
4085 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4088 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4091 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4093 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4094 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4095 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4096 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4098 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4099 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4100 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4102 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4103 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4104 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4107 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4108 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4109 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4110 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4111 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4117 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4118 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4120 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4123 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4124 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4125 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4126 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4127 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4128 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4129 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4130 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4133 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4135 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4136 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4137 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4139 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4140 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4141 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4144 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4145 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4147 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4148 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4149 option (which defaults to 0600).
4151 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4153 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4154 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4155 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4156 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4157 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4158 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4159 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4161 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4167 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4168 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4169 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4170 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4171 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4172 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4175 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4176 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4178 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4180 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4181 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4182 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4183 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4184 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4187 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4188 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4190 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4191 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4192 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4193 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4194 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4196 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4197 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4198 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4199 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4201 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4202 be the same on different OS.
4204 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4207 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4208 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4210 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4213 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4214 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4215 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4216 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4217 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4218 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4221 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4222 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4223 when Exim was called.
4225 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4226 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4228 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4229 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4230 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4231 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4233 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4234 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4235 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4236 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4239 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4240 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4241 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4243 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4244 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4245 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4247 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4250 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4251 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4252 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4253 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4254 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4255 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4256 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4257 values from the SRV records were lost.
4259 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4260 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4261 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4263 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4264 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4265 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4267 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4268 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4269 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4270 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4271 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4272 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4273 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4274 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4275 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4276 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4278 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4279 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4280 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4282 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4283 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4285 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4286 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4287 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4288 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4291 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4292 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4293 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4295 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4296 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4297 PH/23 above applies.
4299 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4300 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4301 (for which there is an explicit test).
4303 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4305 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4306 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4307 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4308 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4309 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4311 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4312 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4313 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4314 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4316 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4317 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4318 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4320 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4322 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4324 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4325 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4326 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4328 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4329 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4330 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4331 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4332 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4334 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4335 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4336 the message gets confusing).
4338 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4339 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4340 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4341 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4343 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4344 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4345 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4346 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4349 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4350 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4351 the different processes.
4353 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4355 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4357 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4358 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4360 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4361 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4363 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4364 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4365 messages matching specified criteria.
4367 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4369 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4370 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4372 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4373 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4374 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4375 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4376 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4377 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4378 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4379 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4380 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4381 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4383 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4384 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4385 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4387 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4389 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4390 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4391 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4392 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4393 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4394 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4395 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4398 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4399 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4401 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4403 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4405 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4407 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4408 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4409 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4410 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4411 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4412 size of the count of files.
4414 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4416 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4419 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4420 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4421 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4422 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4424 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4425 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4426 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4428 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4429 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4430 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4431 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4432 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4434 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4435 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4437 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4438 will now be deprecated.
4440 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4442 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4443 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4444 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4446 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4447 with very large, slow to parse queues
4449 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4451 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4453 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4454 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4455 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4458 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4459 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4460 Sieve code now uses this.
4462 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4463 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4465 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4466 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4468 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4470 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4471 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4472 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4473 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4474 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4476 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4477 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4478 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4479 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4481 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4483 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4485 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4486 is preferred over IPv4.
4488 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4489 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4490 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4491 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4492 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4493 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4494 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4496 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4497 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4498 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4500 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4502 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4503 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4504 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4505 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4506 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4507 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4508 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4509 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4510 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4511 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4512 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4514 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4515 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4516 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4522 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4524 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4525 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4527 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4528 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4529 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4531 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4533 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4536 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4539 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4540 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4541 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4544 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4545 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4547 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4548 inside the third argument.
4550 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4551 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4554 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4555 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4557 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4558 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4560 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4562 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4563 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4566 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4568 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4569 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4570 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4571 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4572 identical. For example:
4574 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4576 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4577 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4578 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4580 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4581 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4582 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4583 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4585 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4586 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4587 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4590 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4592 o fixes some comments
4593 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4594 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4595 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4596 and documents the missing references header update
4600 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4601 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4604 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4605 Electronic Mail") by including:
4607 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4609 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4610 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4611 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4612 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4613 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4615 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4617 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4619 The auto-replied keyword:
4621 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4622 message by an automatic process,
4624 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4626 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4627 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4629 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4630 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4633 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4634 to the default Received: header definition.
4636 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4638 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4639 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4640 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4642 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4643 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4644 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4646 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4647 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4648 and treats the condition as false.
4650 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4652 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4653 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4654 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4655 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4656 not changing the active code.
4658 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4659 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4661 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4662 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4664 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4667 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4668 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4669 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4670 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4671 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4672 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4673 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4674 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4675 the text comparison.
4677 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4678 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4679 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4680 The same fix has been applied.
4686 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4687 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4690 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4691 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4693 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4695 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4696 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4697 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4698 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4699 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4701 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4702 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4703 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4704 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4707 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4715 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4716 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4718 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4720 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4722 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4723 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4724 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4726 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4727 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4728 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4730 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4731 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4734 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4735 ${stat: expansion item.
4737 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4738 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4740 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4741 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4744 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4746 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4749 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4750 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4752 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4754 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4755 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4756 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4757 the end of the subprocess.
4759 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4760 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4761 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4762 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4763 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4765 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4767 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4769 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4770 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4772 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4774 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4776 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4777 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4780 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4782 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4783 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4784 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4786 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4787 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4789 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4790 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4792 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4793 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4795 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4796 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4798 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4799 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4800 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4801 contributed by a Radius user.
4803 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4804 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4806 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4807 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4809 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4812 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4813 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4816 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4817 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4818 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4819 header lines when this was not necessary.
4821 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4823 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4824 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4825 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4828 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4831 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4832 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4833 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4834 return code was incorrect.
4836 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4838 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4840 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4842 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4844 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4845 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4846 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4847 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4848 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4851 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4853 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4854 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4855 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4856 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4857 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4858 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4859 which is clearly wrong.
4861 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4863 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4864 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4865 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4868 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4869 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4871 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4873 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4874 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4876 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4877 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4879 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4880 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4882 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4883 recipients, not senders.
4885 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4886 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4888 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4890 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4892 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4893 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4894 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4895 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4897 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4899 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4900 clock is set back in time.
4902 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4903 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4905 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4906 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4908 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4909 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4912 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4913 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4916 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4919 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4921 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4922 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4923 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4925 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4926 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4927 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4928 helo verification defer as a failure.
4930 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4931 actual error message.
4937 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4939 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4940 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4941 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4942 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4944 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4946 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4947 can still be requested.
4949 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4950 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4951 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4952 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4954 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4955 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4956 circumstances, but probably never did.
4958 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4959 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4960 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4963 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4965 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4966 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4968 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4970 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4972 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4973 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4974 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4975 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4976 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4977 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4979 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4980 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4981 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4982 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4983 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4984 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4986 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4987 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4989 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4990 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4992 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4993 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4995 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4997 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4999 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5001 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5003 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5005 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5007 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5009 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5010 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5011 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5013 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5014 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5015 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5016 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5018 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5019 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5020 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5022 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5023 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5024 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5025 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5027 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5028 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5031 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5032 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5033 should work with maildirs and everything.
5035 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5036 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5038 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5041 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5042 function for BDB 4.3.
5044 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5046 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5047 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5050 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5051 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5052 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5053 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5054 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5055 formatting function string_vformat().
5057 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5058 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5059 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5060 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5061 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5062 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5063 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5064 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5066 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5067 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5070 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5071 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5073 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5074 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5075 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5076 test. It is now used for both.
5078 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5079 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5080 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5081 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5082 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5083 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5085 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5086 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5087 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5090 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5091 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5092 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5094 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5095 experimental DomainKeys support:
5097 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5098 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5099 the control was given.
5101 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5103 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5105 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5107 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5108 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5109 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5112 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5113 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5114 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5115 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5116 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5117 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5120 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5121 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5122 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5123 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5124 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5125 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5127 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5128 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5129 do -d+all out of habit.
5131 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5132 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5135 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5136 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5137 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5138 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5139 record types that Exim uses.
5141 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5142 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5143 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5144 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5145 non-existent file that was broken.
5147 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5148 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5150 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5151 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5152 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5154 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5156 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5157 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5158 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5159 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5160 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5163 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5164 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5165 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5166 at a slight CPU cost.
5168 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5169 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5171 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5174 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5176 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5177 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5183 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5184 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5186 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5188 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5190 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5191 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5193 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5194 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5195 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5196 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5197 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5198 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5201 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5202 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5203 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5204 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5207 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5208 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5209 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5210 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5211 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5212 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5213 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5216 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5217 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5219 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5220 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5221 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5222 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5223 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5224 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5226 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5227 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5228 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5229 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5231 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5234 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5235 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5237 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5238 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5239 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5240 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5243 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5245 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5246 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5248 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5249 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5250 to what was transported.)
5252 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5254 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5255 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5256 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5257 spamd_address settings.
5259 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5260 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5261 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5262 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5263 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5265 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5267 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5268 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5269 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5270 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5271 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5273 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5274 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5276 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5277 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5278 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5279 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5280 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5281 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5282 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5285 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5286 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5287 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5288 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5289 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5290 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5291 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5294 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5296 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5297 driver and ACL definitions.
5299 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5300 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5302 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5303 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5304 understands it better than I do:
5306 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5307 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5309 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5310 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5311 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5312 => three warnings about OTP not working
5313 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5315 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5316 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5317 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5318 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5320 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5321 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5323 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5324 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5325 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5327 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5328 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5331 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5332 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5335 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5336 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5337 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5339 warn !verify = sender
5340 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5342 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5343 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5345 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5347 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5348 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5350 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5351 nomenclature these days.)
5353 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5354 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5356 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5357 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5358 . First host does not offer TLS;
5359 . First host accepts first address;
5360 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5361 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5362 . Second host accepts second address.
5363 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5364 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5367 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5368 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5369 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5370 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5371 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5373 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5374 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5376 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5377 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5379 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5380 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5381 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5383 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5384 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5387 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5389 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5390 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5391 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5392 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5393 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5394 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5395 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5397 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5398 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5399 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5400 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5401 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5403 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5404 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5407 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5408 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5409 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5410 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5411 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5412 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5414 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5416 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5417 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5418 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5419 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5420 printable escape sequences.
5422 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5423 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5426 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5427 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5430 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5431 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5432 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5433 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5434 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5436 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5437 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5438 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5440 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5442 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5443 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5446 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5447 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5448 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5449 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5450 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5451 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5452 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5453 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5454 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5457 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5458 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5459 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5460 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5464 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5465 ----------------------------------------
5467 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5468 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5469 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5470 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5471 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5472 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5475 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5476 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5477 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5478 historical information.
5484 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5486 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5487 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5489 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5490 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5493 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5494 filter fails to execute.
5496 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5497 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5498 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5499 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5500 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5502 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5504 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5505 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5506 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5507 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5509 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5510 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5511 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5512 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5513 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5515 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5517 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5519 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5520 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5521 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5522 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5524 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5525 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5526 sender verification.
5528 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5529 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5531 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5533 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5536 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5537 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5539 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5540 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5542 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5543 information about exactly what failed.
5545 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5547 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5548 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5549 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5551 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5552 It is now set to "smtps".
5554 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5555 ignore_target_hosts.
5557 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5558 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5559 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5560 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5563 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5564 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5565 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5567 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5568 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5569 wake it up if nothing else does.
5571 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5572 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5573 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5576 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5577 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5579 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5581 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5582 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5583 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5584 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5585 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5586 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5587 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5588 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5590 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5591 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5592 than one IP address.
5594 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5595 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5596 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5597 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5599 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5600 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5601 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5602 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5603 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5606 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5607 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5608 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5609 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5611 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5612 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5615 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5616 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5617 $sender_host_address.
5619 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5620 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5621 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5622 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5623 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5626 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5628 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5629 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5631 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5632 just the host names, not the priorities.
5634 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5635 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5636 controlled by a keyword.
5638 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5639 multiple records are returned.
5641 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5642 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5645 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5647 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5648 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5650 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5651 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5652 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5654 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5656 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5658 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5660 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5661 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5662 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5663 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5664 because the tests only now provoked it.
5666 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5667 (this can affect the format of dates).
5669 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5670 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5671 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5672 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5674 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5676 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5677 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5678 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5679 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5681 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5682 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5683 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5685 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5688 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5689 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5690 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5691 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5692 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5693 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5696 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5697 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5698 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5701 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5702 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5703 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5705 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5706 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5707 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5708 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5709 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5710 so I produce this patch..."
5712 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5713 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5716 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5717 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5718 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5719 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5722 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5724 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5725 long debug lines gets shown.
5727 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5728 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5730 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5732 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5733 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5734 of $primary_hostname.
5736 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5737 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5738 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5739 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5740 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5741 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5742 by change 4.50/55 above.
5744 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5745 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5746 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5747 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5748 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5749 running as the user.
5752 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5753 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5754 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5757 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5758 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5760 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5761 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5762 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5763 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5764 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5766 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5767 This has been fixed.
5769 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5770 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5771 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5772 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5775 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5777 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5778 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5779 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5780 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5782 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5783 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5785 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5786 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5787 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5789 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5790 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5791 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5794 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5795 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5796 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5798 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5799 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5800 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5801 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5803 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5804 during host lookups.
5806 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5807 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5809 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5811 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5812 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5813 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5814 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5815 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5818 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5819 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5821 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5822 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5823 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5825 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5827 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5828 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5829 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5830 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5831 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5832 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5835 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5836 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5837 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5838 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5839 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5841 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5844 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5846 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5847 "vacation" handling.
5849 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5850 OS variants using glibc.
5852 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5855 ----------------------------------------------------
5856 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5857 ----------------------------------------------------
5863 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5864 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5867 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5868 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5871 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5872 filter fails to execute.
5874 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5875 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5876 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5877 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5878 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5880 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5881 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5882 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5883 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5885 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5886 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5887 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5888 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5889 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5891 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5893 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5894 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5895 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5896 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5898 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5899 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5900 sender verification.
5902 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5903 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5905 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5906 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5908 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5909 ignore_target_hosts.
5911 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5912 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5913 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5914 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5917 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5918 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5919 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5921 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5922 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5923 wake it up if nothing else does.
5925 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5926 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5927 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5930 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5931 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5933 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5935 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5936 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5939 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5940 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5943 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5944 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5945 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5946 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5947 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5950 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5951 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5954 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5955 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5956 $sender_host_address.
5958 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5960 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5961 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5962 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5964 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5967 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5968 (this can affect the format of dates).
5970 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5971 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5972 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5973 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5975 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5976 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5977 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5979 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5980 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5981 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5982 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5984 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5985 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5986 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5988 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5991 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5992 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5993 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5994 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5995 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5996 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5999 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6000 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6001 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6002 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6005 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6006 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6007 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6008 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6009 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6010 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6011 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6013 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6014 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6015 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6016 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6017 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6018 running as the user.
6021 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6022 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6023 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6026 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6027 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6028 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6029 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6030 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6032 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6033 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6034 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6035 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6038 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6039 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6040 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6041 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6042 because the tests only now provoked it.
6048 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6049 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6050 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6051 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6052 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6053 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6054 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6056 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6057 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6060 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6062 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6064 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6065 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6068 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6069 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6070 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6071 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6072 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6074 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6075 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6077 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6079 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6081 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6084 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6085 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6087 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6088 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6089 affecting debugging statements).
6091 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6093 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6094 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6095 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6096 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6097 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6098 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6099 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6100 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6101 after the received time, and all would be well.
6103 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6104 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6105 condition in an expansion string.
6107 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6109 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6110 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6111 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6112 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6113 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6114 job under whatever limits there are.
6116 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6118 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6121 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6122 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6123 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6124 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6127 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6128 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6129 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6130 binary data in such strings.
6132 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6134 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6135 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6136 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6137 failure, which is pointless.
6139 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6141 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6143 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6144 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6145 Sender: header lines.
6147 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6148 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6149 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6151 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6152 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6153 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6154 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6155 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6158 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6159 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6160 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6161 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6162 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6164 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6165 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6166 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6169 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6170 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6172 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6173 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6175 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6177 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6179 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6181 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6184 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6186 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6188 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6189 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6190 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6191 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6193 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6194 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6200 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6201 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6202 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6204 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6205 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6206 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6207 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6208 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6209 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6211 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6212 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6213 verification failure".
6215 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6216 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6217 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6218 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6220 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6221 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6222 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6223 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6224 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6225 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6226 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6227 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6228 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6229 treated as a timeout.
6231 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6232 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6233 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6234 not set for Exim filters).
6236 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6237 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6238 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6240 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6242 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6243 try to make them clearer.
6245 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6246 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6248 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6250 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6252 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6253 only the Cygwin environment.
6255 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6256 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6257 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6258 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6259 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6261 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6262 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6263 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6264 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6265 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6266 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6267 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6269 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6270 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6272 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6274 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6275 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6276 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6278 To: susanne@some.where
6280 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6281 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6282 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6283 of addresses in From: header lines).
6285 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6286 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6287 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6289 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6290 treated as non-personal.
6292 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6293 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6295 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6297 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6299 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6300 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6301 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6303 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6304 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6306 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6307 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6308 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6309 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6310 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6311 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6313 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6314 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6315 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6316 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6317 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6318 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6319 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6320 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6322 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6324 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6325 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6327 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6328 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6329 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6331 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6332 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6334 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6335 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6336 rather than long int.
6338 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6340 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6346 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6347 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6348 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6349 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6350 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6351 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6357 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6358 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6360 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6361 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6362 socklen_t is defined.
6364 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6367 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6370 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6371 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6372 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6373 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6374 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6376 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6377 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6378 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6379 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6381 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6382 of flapping under certain conditions.
6384 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6385 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6386 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6388 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6390 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6392 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6393 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6394 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6395 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6397 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6398 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6399 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6400 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6401 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6402 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6403 preserved with the message after it was received.
6405 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6406 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6407 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6408 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6409 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6410 test suite worked just fine.
6412 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6413 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6414 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6416 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6417 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6420 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6421 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6422 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6423 does not fully solve it.
6425 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6426 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6427 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6428 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6429 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6431 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6432 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6433 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6435 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6436 string, for example:
6438 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6440 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6441 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6442 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6443 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6444 the routers could not see them.
6446 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6447 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6449 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6450 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6453 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6454 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6455 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6456 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6457 that needed quoting.
6459 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6460 was not being matched caselessly.
6462 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6465 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6466 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6467 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6468 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6469 when use_sender is false.
6471 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6473 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6475 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6477 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6478 the configuration file.
6480 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6481 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6483 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6485 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6486 bytes in the message body.
6488 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6489 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6492 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6494 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6496 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6497 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6498 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6499 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6506 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6507 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6509 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6510 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6511 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6512 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6513 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6515 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6516 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6518 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6519 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6520 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6522 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6523 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6524 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6526 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6529 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6530 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6531 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6532 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6533 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6534 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6535 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6541 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6542 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6543 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6544 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6545 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6546 default (and expected) setting.
6548 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6549 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6550 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6551 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6553 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6554 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6556 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6559 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6560 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6561 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6562 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6563 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6564 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6566 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6567 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6568 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6570 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6571 part (NOT match_host).
6573 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6575 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6576 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6577 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6578 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6579 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6580 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6581 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6582 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6583 the same named file.
6585 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6586 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6589 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6590 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6591 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6592 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6595 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6596 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6597 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6599 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6601 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6603 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6605 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6606 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6608 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6609 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6610 before starting the TLS session.
6612 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6614 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6615 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6617 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6618 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6619 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6620 colon in the middle).
6626 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6627 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6628 multiple configurations are in use.
6630 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6631 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6632 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6633 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6634 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6635 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6637 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6638 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6640 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6641 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6642 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6644 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6645 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6648 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6649 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6651 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6653 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6654 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6656 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6664 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6665 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6666 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6667 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6668 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6670 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6673 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6674 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6675 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6676 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6677 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6678 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6680 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6681 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6682 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6683 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6684 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6685 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6686 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6689 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6690 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6691 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6692 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6693 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6695 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6697 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6698 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6699 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6701 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6703 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6704 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6705 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6708 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6709 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6711 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6712 Three changes have been made:
6714 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6715 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6716 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6717 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6718 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6720 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6723 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6724 the modified behaviour.
6730 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6733 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6734 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6736 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6737 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6738 try to track down a specific problem.
6740 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6741 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6742 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6744 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6747 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6748 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6749 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6750 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6751 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6752 some earlier ones do not.
6754 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6756 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6757 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6758 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6759 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6760 address literals are enabled, of course).
6762 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6764 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6765 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6766 by a command such as
6770 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6772 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6774 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6775 remained set. It is now erased.
6777 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6778 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6780 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6781 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6782 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6783 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6784 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6785 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6786 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6787 appropriate error code.
6789 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6790 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6791 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6792 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6793 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6794 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6796 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6797 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6798 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6800 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6801 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6802 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6803 terminate the header.
6805 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6806 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6807 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6809 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6810 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6811 (4.30/29). In particular:
6813 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6816 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6817 to write a maildirsize file.
6819 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6820 the transport, the new value overrides.
6822 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6825 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6826 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6827 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6830 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6831 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6832 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6835 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6836 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6837 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6839 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6840 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6843 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6844 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6845 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6847 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6849 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6851 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6853 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6854 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6857 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6858 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6859 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6860 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6861 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6862 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6863 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6866 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6867 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6868 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6869 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6870 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6873 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6874 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6875 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6876 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6877 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6878 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6879 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6880 cached value only when the same options are set.
6882 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6884 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6885 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6886 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6887 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6888 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6890 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6891 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6892 it is clearly obsolete.
6894 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6897 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6898 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6899 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6902 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6903 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6904 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6905 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6906 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6908 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6909 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6910 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6911 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6913 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6915 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6917 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6918 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6921 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6922 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6923 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6924 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6925 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6926 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6929 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6930 with the -f command-line option.
6932 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6933 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6934 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6935 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6936 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6937 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6939 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6940 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6943 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6944 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6945 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6946 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6947 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6948 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6949 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6950 buffer is too small.
6952 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6953 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6955 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6956 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6957 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6958 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6959 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6960 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6961 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6962 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6963 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6965 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6966 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6967 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6969 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6970 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6973 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6974 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6975 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6976 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6977 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6979 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6980 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6981 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6982 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6985 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6987 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6989 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6990 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6992 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6993 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6994 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6996 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6997 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6998 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6999 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7000 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7002 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7003 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7004 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7005 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7006 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7007 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7008 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7010 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7011 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7012 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7013 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7014 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7015 the test of how many are available.
7017 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7018 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7019 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7020 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7021 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7022 new message is started.
7024 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7025 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7027 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7028 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7030 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7031 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7032 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7035 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7036 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7037 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7038 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7039 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7040 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7041 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7043 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7044 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7045 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7046 interpreted as octal.
7048 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7051 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7052 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7053 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7054 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7055 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7056 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7058 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7059 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7060 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7061 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7063 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7064 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7065 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7066 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7068 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7069 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7072 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7073 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7075 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7077 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7078 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7079 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7080 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7082 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7083 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7084 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7085 supplied", which is not helpful.
7087 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7088 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7089 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7091 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7092 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7093 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7094 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7095 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7096 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7097 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7098 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7100 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7101 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7102 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7103 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7104 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7106 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7107 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7108 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7109 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7110 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7111 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7113 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7114 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7115 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7117 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7119 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7120 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7121 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7124 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7126 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7127 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7128 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7129 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7130 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7131 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7132 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7133 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7135 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7136 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7137 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7138 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7139 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7141 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7144 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7145 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7146 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7147 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7148 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7149 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7150 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7151 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7152 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7158 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7159 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7160 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7162 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7165 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7166 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7167 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7169 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7170 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7171 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7172 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7173 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7174 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7176 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7177 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7178 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7179 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7180 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7181 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7182 the Exim test suite.
7184 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7185 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7186 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7187 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7189 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7190 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7191 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7192 specify it in this variable.
7194 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7195 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7196 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7197 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7199 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7200 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7201 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7202 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7204 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7205 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7206 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7207 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7208 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7210 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7212 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7215 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7216 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7217 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7218 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7219 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7221 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7222 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7224 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7225 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7226 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7227 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7228 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7230 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7231 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7233 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7234 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7235 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7237 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7238 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7240 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7241 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7243 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7244 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7245 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7247 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7248 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7250 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7251 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7252 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7253 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7255 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7257 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7258 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7259 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7260 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7262 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7264 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7265 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7267 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7269 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7270 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7271 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7272 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7273 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7274 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7276 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7278 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7279 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7282 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7284 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7285 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7287 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7288 550 Sender verify failed
7290 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7291 the final line of the response.
7293 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7294 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7295 all other user lookups.
7297 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7300 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7301 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7302 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7303 result into an int without checking.
7305 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7306 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7307 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7309 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7310 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7311 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7312 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7314 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7317 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7318 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7320 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7321 to the empty sender.
7323 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7324 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7325 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7326 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7327 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7328 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7329 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7332 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7333 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7334 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7335 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7338 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7339 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7341 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7344 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7345 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7347 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7349 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7350 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7353 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7354 as soon as it is encountered.
7356 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7358 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7361 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7362 recognizes a tab character.
7364 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7365 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7366 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7367 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7369 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7371 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7374 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7376 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7378 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7379 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7382 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7383 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7384 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7385 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7386 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7388 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7389 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7391 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7392 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7393 list (.included file names were always shown).
7395 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7396 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7397 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7400 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7401 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7403 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7405 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7407 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7409 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7410 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7411 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7412 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7413 failures to open the logs.
7415 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7416 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7417 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7418 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7419 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7420 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7421 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7427 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7428 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7429 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7432 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7433 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7434 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7436 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7437 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7438 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7440 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7441 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7442 causing some misleading effects.
7444 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7445 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7446 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7448 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7449 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7450 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7451 queue-runner function directly.
7457 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7460 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7461 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7462 was always written to the default place.
7464 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7465 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7466 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7468 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7470 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7472 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7473 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7474 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7476 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7477 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7480 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7481 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7482 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7484 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7485 command line option is disabled.
7487 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7488 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7490 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7492 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7494 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7495 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7497 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7499 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7500 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7501 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7502 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7503 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7504 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7506 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7507 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7510 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7511 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7513 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7514 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7516 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7517 received was valid base64.
7519 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7520 name of the variable that was being set.
7522 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7524 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7525 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7526 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7527 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7528 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7529 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7531 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7533 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7534 nor realm was specified.
7536 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7537 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7538 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7539 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7541 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7542 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7543 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7545 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7546 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7547 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7549 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7550 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7551 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7552 some systems use these upper case variants.
7554 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7555 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7556 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7557 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7559 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7561 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7562 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7564 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7565 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7568 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7570 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7571 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7572 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7573 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7575 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7578 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7579 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7580 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7582 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7583 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7585 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7586 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7587 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7588 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7590 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7591 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7592 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7594 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7596 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7597 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7598 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7599 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7602 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7603 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7604 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7606 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7608 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7609 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7611 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7612 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7614 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7615 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7616 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7617 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7618 when emails are that large.
7625 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7626 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7628 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7629 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7630 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7632 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7633 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7634 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7636 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7637 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7638 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7639 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7640 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7642 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7643 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7644 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7645 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7646 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7649 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7650 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7651 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7652 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7653 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7654 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7655 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7656 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7657 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7658 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7659 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7660 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7661 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7662 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7664 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7665 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7668 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7669 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7670 error should be diagnosed.
7672 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7673 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7674 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7675 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7676 appeared instead of "NULL".
7678 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7679 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7680 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7681 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7682 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7683 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7686 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7687 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7688 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7694 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7695 or receiver verification errors.
7697 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7700 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7701 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7702 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7703 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7705 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7706 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7707 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7708 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7709 shouldn't happen again.
7711 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7712 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7713 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7715 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7716 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7718 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7720 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7721 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7723 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7724 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7727 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7728 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7729 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7731 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7732 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7733 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7734 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7736 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7737 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7738 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7739 to define what should happen).
7741 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7742 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7743 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7745 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7747 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7749 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7750 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7752 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7753 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7754 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7755 structure in all cases.
7757 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7758 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7759 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7760 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7762 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7763 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7766 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7767 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7769 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7770 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7772 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7773 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7774 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7776 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7777 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7778 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7780 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7781 the book and for uniformity.
7783 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7785 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7786 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7787 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7788 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7789 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7790 non-existent command as the problem.
7792 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7793 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7794 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7796 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7798 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7799 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7800 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7802 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7803 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7804 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7805 timestamps using strftime().
7807 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7808 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7810 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7811 transport-time rewrites.
7813 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7814 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7815 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7816 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7818 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7819 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7821 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7822 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7823 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7824 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7827 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7828 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7829 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7830 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7831 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7832 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7833 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7835 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7836 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7837 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7838 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7839 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7841 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7842 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7843 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7844 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7845 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7846 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7847 remaining text gets split now.
7849 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7850 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7851 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7852 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7854 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7855 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7856 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7857 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7860 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7861 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7862 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7863 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7864 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7865 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7866 passed through if needed.
7868 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7869 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7870 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7871 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7872 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7873 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7875 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7876 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7877 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7878 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7879 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7881 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7882 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7883 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7884 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7885 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7887 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7888 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7891 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7892 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7893 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7894 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7895 mayhem of various kinds.
7897 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7898 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7899 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7900 the right test for positive values.
7902 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7903 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7904 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7905 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7906 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7907 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7908 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7909 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7910 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7911 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7914 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7917 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7918 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7921 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7922 the existing equality matching.
7924 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7925 dealing with inode numbers.
7927 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7928 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7929 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7931 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7932 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7933 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7934 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7937 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7938 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7939 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7940 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7941 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7942 relay addresses has also been removed.
7944 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7946 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7947 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7948 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7950 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7951 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7952 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7953 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7954 processing applies to CR:
7956 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7957 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7959 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7960 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7961 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7962 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7964 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7965 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7966 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7968 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7969 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7970 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7971 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7972 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7973 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7976 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7979 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7980 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7981 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7982 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7985 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7987 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7989 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7991 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7992 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7993 not considered personal.
7995 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7997 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7999 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8001 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8002 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8003 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8004 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8005 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8006 header lines, and spool format errors.
8008 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8009 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8010 for more flexibility.
8012 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8013 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8014 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8016 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8019 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8020 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8021 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8022 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8023 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8024 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8025 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8026 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8027 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8029 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8030 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8031 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8032 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8033 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8034 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8035 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8037 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8038 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8039 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8041 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8042 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8043 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8044 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8045 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8046 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8047 instead of killing the process with assert().
8049 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8050 than Unicode encoding.
8052 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8053 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8054 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8055 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8057 77. Added process_log_path.
8059 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8060 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8062 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8063 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8065 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8066 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8067 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8069 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8070 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8071 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8072 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8073 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8076 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8077 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8080 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8081 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8082 they will be used during message reception.
8088 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.