1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique messmage IDs) from
9 after reception to before a subsequence reception. This should
10 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
13 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
14 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
16 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
17 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
18 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
19 not be modified by local-scan code.
25 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
26 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
27 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
29 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
30 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
31 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
32 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
34 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
35 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
36 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
37 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
38 so could be handling tainted values.
40 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
41 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
42 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
44 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
45 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
46 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
49 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
50 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
51 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
52 to align better with RFC 6125.
54 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
55 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
56 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
57 by adding a release action in that path.
59 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
60 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
61 dynamically-created buffers.
63 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
64 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
65 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
66 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
68 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
69 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
70 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
71 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
73 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
74 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
75 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
77 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
78 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
79 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
80 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
82 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
83 excluded, not matching the documentation.
85 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
86 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
88 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
89 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
90 this was a coding error.
92 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
93 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
94 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
95 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
96 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
97 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
98 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
100 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
101 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
102 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
103 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
105 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
106 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
107 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
108 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
109 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
111 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
112 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
115 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
116 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
117 domain-parking registrar.
119 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
120 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
121 after removing the newline.
123 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
124 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
125 option set, which was previously used.
127 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
130 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
131 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
132 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
133 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
135 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
136 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
137 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
138 exim.dev.20160529.3).
140 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
141 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
142 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
144 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
145 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
146 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
149 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
150 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
151 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
153 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
154 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
155 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
156 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
159 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
160 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
161 there, handle PRX and TFO.
163 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
164 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
165 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
166 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
167 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
169 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
170 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
171 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
172 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
175 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
176 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
178 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
181 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
182 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
183 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
184 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
185 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
187 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
189 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
190 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
191 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
192 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
193 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
194 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
196 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
197 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
199 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
200 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
201 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
203 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
204 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
207 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
208 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
209 of a new variable: $auth4.
211 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
212 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
213 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
214 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
215 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
217 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
218 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
219 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
220 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
222 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
223 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
224 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
226 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
227 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
228 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
229 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
232 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
233 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
234 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
237 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
238 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
239 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
240 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
242 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
243 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
245 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
246 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
247 looked as if if might be one.
249 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
250 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
251 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
252 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
253 messages can show the proxy information.
255 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
256 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
257 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
258 "queue_time_exclusive".
260 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
261 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
262 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
264 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
265 making it unusable in complex expressions.
267 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
268 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
271 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
273 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
275 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
277 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
278 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
279 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
280 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
282 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
283 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
285 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
286 better. Reported by Qualys.
288 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
289 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
292 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
294 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
297 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
299 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
300 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
301 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
302 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
304 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
305 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
307 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
308 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
309 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
310 mode until after various protocol state checks.
311 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
313 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
315 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
316 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
318 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
321 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
322 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
323 executed child processes (if any).
325 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
328 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
329 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
330 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
331 been reported on other platforms.
333 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
335 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
336 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
337 Not supported on Solaris 10.
339 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
340 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
341 since fakereject was originally introduced.
343 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
344 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
346 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
347 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
348 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
351 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
352 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
353 which only permit IP addresses.
359 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
360 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
361 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
363 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
365 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
366 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
369 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
370 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
371 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
373 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
375 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
377 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
378 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
379 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
381 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
382 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
383 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
385 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
386 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
388 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
389 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
392 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
393 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
394 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
395 should both provide the file and set the option.
396 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
398 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
399 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
401 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
402 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
403 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
404 Authentication-Results: header.
406 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
407 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
408 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
409 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
411 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
412 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
413 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
414 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
415 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
416 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
417 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
419 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
420 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
421 copies while it is still usable.
423 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
424 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
425 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
427 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
428 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
430 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
431 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
432 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
433 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
435 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
436 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
437 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
440 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
441 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
442 - the pipe transport command
443 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
444 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
446 - paths used by single-key lookups
447 Previously this was permitted.
449 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
450 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
451 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
452 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
454 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
455 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
456 support larger malloc requests.
458 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
459 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
460 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
461 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
463 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
464 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
465 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
466 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
469 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
470 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
471 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
472 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
473 data being length-specified.
475 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
476 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
477 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
478 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
480 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
481 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
482 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
483 not being properly tracked.
485 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
486 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
487 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
488 minute could be seen.
490 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
491 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
492 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
494 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
495 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
497 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
498 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
501 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
503 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
504 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
506 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
507 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
508 filesystem as sufficient validation.
510 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
511 argument is supplied.
513 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
514 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
515 access under Exim's current working directory.
517 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
518 Previously no event was raised.
520 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
521 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
522 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
525 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
526 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
527 the size of the signature hash.
529 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
530 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
532 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
533 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
534 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
535 dropped between messages.
537 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
538 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
539 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
540 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
542 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
543 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
544 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
545 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
546 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
547 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
548 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
549 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
550 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
552 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
553 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
554 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
556 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
557 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
564 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
565 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
567 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
568 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
571 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
574 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
576 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
578 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
579 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
581 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
582 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
583 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
584 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
585 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
586 suitably configured).
588 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
589 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
591 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
592 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
595 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
596 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
598 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
599 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
600 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
601 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
604 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
605 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
606 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
608 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
611 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
612 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
614 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
615 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
616 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
617 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
620 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
621 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
622 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
623 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
626 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
627 shared (NFS) environment.
629 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
630 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
633 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
634 on some platforms for bit 31.
636 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
637 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
638 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
639 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
640 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
641 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
642 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
643 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
645 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
647 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
648 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
650 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
651 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
654 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
655 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
658 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
659 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
660 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
663 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
664 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
665 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
667 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
668 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
669 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
670 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
671 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
673 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
676 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
677 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
678 be requested on all coneections.
680 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
681 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
683 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
685 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
686 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
687 one for these; the option was ignored.
689 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
690 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
691 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
692 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
694 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
695 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
696 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
699 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
700 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
701 error ignored was made.
703 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
705 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
706 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
707 values, to catch one form of exploit.
709 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
710 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
711 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
713 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
714 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
717 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
718 them in our smtp response.
720 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
721 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
722 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
723 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
724 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
726 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
727 link count into consideration.
729 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
730 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
732 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
733 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
734 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
737 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
739 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
741 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
743 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
744 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
745 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
746 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
748 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
750 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
751 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
754 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
755 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
756 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
758 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
759 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
760 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
762 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
763 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
764 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
765 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
766 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
767 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
768 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
769 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
771 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
772 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
773 resulted in an indefinite loop.
775 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
776 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
777 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
783 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
784 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
786 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
787 non-signal-safe functions being used.
789 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
790 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
791 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
793 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
794 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
795 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
797 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
798 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
799 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
800 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
801 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
804 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
805 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
807 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
808 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
809 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
810 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
811 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
812 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
813 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
815 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
816 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
818 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
821 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
822 Previously this would segfault.
824 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
827 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
828 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
829 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
830 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
831 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
832 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
834 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
836 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
837 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
838 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
839 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
841 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
843 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
844 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
845 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
846 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
848 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
850 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
852 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
853 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
854 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
856 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
857 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
858 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
860 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
862 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
863 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
864 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
865 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
867 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
868 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
869 promised '?' replacement.
871 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
873 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
874 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
875 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
876 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
877 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
879 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
880 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
881 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
883 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
884 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
885 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
887 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
888 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
889 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
891 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
892 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
893 hope that is portable enough.
895 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
896 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
897 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
898 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
900 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
901 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
902 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
904 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
905 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
906 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
907 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
909 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
910 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
912 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
913 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
914 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
915 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
917 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
918 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
919 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
921 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
922 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
923 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
924 the previous G, M, k.
926 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
927 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
930 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
931 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
932 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
933 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
935 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
936 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
938 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
939 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
940 off past the nul-terimation.
942 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
943 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
944 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
945 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
946 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
948 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
950 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
951 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
952 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
955 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
956 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
958 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
959 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
960 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
962 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
963 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
964 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
966 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
967 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
973 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
974 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
975 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
976 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
977 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
978 be defined in redis_servers.
980 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
981 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
983 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
984 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
985 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
986 extant use locations.
988 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
989 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
991 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
992 Previously only the last row was returned.
994 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
995 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
996 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
997 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1000 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1001 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1002 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1003 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1004 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1005 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1006 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1007 Main pool for expansions.
1008 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1009 active in the testsuite.
1010 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1012 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1013 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1014 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1015 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1018 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1019 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1022 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1023 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1024 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1026 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1027 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1028 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1030 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1031 rows affected is given instead).
1033 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1034 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1036 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1037 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1038 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1039 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1040 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1042 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1043 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1044 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1046 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1047 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1048 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1049 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1052 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1053 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1054 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1057 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1059 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1060 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1062 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1063 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1064 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1066 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1067 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1068 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1071 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1072 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1074 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1075 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1076 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1078 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1079 for the build is renamed.
1081 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1082 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1083 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1085 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1086 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1087 result replacing the original.
1089 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1090 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1091 and the resources needed to be freed.
1093 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1095 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1098 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1099 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1100 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1101 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1103 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1104 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1106 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1107 newer versions of the scanner.
1109 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1110 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1111 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1112 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1113 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1114 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1115 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1117 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1118 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1119 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1120 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1121 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1122 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1123 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1124 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1125 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1126 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1128 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1129 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1131 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1133 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1134 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1136 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1137 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1139 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1140 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1141 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1143 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1144 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1145 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1146 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1148 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1149 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1152 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1153 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1155 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1156 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1157 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1158 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1159 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1161 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1162 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1165 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1166 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1168 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1171 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1172 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1173 "bare" representation.
1175 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1176 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1177 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1178 corrupted the output.
1184 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1185 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1186 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1187 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1189 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1190 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1192 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1193 This permits better logging.
1195 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1196 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1197 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1198 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1199 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1200 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1202 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1203 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1206 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1207 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1208 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1210 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1211 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1213 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1214 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1215 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1216 client, there is no benefit for these.
1217 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1218 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1219 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1222 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1223 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1225 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1226 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1227 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1229 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1230 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1232 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1233 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1234 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1235 signature and again for transmission.
1237 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1238 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1239 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1241 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1242 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1243 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1244 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1245 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1246 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1247 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1249 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1250 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1251 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1252 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1254 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1255 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1256 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1257 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1258 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1259 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1262 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1263 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1264 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1265 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1268 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1269 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1270 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1271 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1274 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1275 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1278 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1279 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1280 banner-time rejection.
1282 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1285 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1286 is the name of a transport.
1289 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1291 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1292 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1294 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1295 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1296 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1299 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1300 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1301 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1302 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1304 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1305 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1306 initial verify call returned a defer.
1308 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1309 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1311 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1312 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1314 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1315 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1317 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1318 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1320 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1321 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1324 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1325 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1327 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1328 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1329 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1331 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1332 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1333 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1334 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1336 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1337 and confused the parent.
1339 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1340 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1342 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1345 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1346 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1347 out-of-order delivery.
1349 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1350 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1351 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1354 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1355 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1358 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1359 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1360 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1362 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1363 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1364 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1365 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1366 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1367 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1369 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1370 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1371 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1373 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1374 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1375 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1377 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1378 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1379 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1380 though a different problem.
1386 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1387 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1389 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1391 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1392 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1394 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1395 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1397 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1398 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1399 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1400 before acknowledging the chunk.
1402 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1403 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1404 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1406 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1407 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1408 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1411 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1412 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1413 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1415 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1416 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1418 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1419 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1420 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1421 body hash calculated value.
1423 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1424 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1425 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1427 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1429 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1430 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1432 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1433 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1434 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1436 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1437 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1438 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1439 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1440 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1441 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1443 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1444 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1445 past that check, despite the cost.
1447 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1448 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1449 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1451 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1452 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1453 TLS library to consume.
1455 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1457 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1459 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1460 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1461 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1462 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1463 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1464 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1465 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1467 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1469 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1471 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1472 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1473 should be warning-free.
1475 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1477 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1478 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1480 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1481 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1482 general solution here.
1484 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1485 already-broken messages in the queue.
1487 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1489 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1495 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1496 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1498 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1499 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1500 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1502 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1503 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1504 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1505 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1506 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1507 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1508 if one fails this test.
1509 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1510 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1512 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1513 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1515 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1516 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1518 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1519 in rewrites and routers.
1521 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1522 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1524 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1525 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1527 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1529 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1532 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1533 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1534 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1535 connection after a verify cache hit.
1536 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1538 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1539 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1541 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1542 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1543 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1544 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1545 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1547 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1548 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1550 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1551 Previously they were not counted.
1553 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1554 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1555 that needed the lookup.
1557 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1558 distinguished as "(=".
1560 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1561 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1563 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1565 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1566 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1568 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1569 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1571 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1572 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1575 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1576 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1577 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1578 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1580 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1582 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1583 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1584 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1586 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1587 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1588 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1591 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1592 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1593 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1596 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1597 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1598 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1600 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1601 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1604 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1606 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1607 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1609 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1610 are not in the system include path.
1612 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1613 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1614 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1615 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1617 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1618 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1619 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1621 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1623 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1624 an incoming connection.
1626 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1629 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1630 fallback to "prime256v1".
1632 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1633 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1639 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1640 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1641 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1642 client dropping the TLS connection.
1644 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1645 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1647 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1648 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1649 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1650 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1653 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1654 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1655 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1656 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1657 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1658 check on the next write.
1660 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1661 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1662 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1663 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1664 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1666 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1667 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1669 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1670 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1671 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1673 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1674 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1675 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1676 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1678 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1679 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1681 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1682 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1684 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1685 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1686 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1689 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1691 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1693 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1695 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1696 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1698 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1699 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1701 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1703 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1704 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1706 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1708 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1709 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1711 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1713 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1714 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1715 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1716 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1717 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1718 they will retry in-clear.
1719 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1720 at installation time.
1722 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1723 with the $config_file variable.
1725 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1726 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1727 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1728 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1729 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1731 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1732 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1733 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1734 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1735 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1737 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1739 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1740 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1741 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1742 list order is no longer honoured.
1744 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1745 for DKIM processing.
1747 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1748 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1750 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1751 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1752 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1753 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1755 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1756 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1758 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1759 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1761 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1762 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1764 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1766 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1767 cached by the daemon.
1769 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1770 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1772 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1773 keys are given for lookup.
1775 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1776 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1777 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1778 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1780 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1781 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1782 server-side so match that on older versions.
1784 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1785 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1786 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1788 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1789 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1791 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1792 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1793 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1794 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1795 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1796 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1797 initial truncated version.
1799 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1801 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1803 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1804 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1806 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1808 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1810 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1811 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1814 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1815 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1818 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1819 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1821 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1822 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1825 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1826 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1827 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1829 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1830 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1831 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1832 extraction. Accept either.
1838 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1841 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1843 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1846 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1847 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1848 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1849 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1851 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1852 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1853 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1855 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1856 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1857 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1860 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1863 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1864 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1865 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1866 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1867 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1869 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1870 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1871 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1873 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1875 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1876 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1878 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1879 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1881 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1884 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1885 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1887 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1888 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1889 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1891 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1892 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1893 specify a port-range.
1895 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1896 timeout value per server.
1898 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1899 now have the list separator specified.
1901 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1904 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1907 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1909 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1910 rather than the verbs used.
1912 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1913 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1915 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1917 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1918 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1920 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1921 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1923 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1924 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1926 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1928 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1930 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1931 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1932 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1933 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1935 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1937 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1938 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1940 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1941 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1943 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1945 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1947 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1949 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1950 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1952 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1953 added for tls authenticator.
1955 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1961 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1962 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1963 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1964 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1965 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1966 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1967 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1969 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1970 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1971 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1972 function when detected.
1974 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1975 cause callback expansion.
1977 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1978 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1979 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1980 instead of bool when processing it.
1982 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1983 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1985 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1987 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1989 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1991 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1992 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1994 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1995 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1996 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1997 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1998 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1999 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2001 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2002 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2005 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2006 version 3.3.6 or later.
2008 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2009 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2010 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2011 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2012 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2013 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2016 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2017 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2019 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2020 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2021 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2024 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2025 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2026 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2028 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2029 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2031 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2032 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2035 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2037 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2038 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2040 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2041 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2044 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2046 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2049 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2050 output list separator was used.
2055 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2056 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2059 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2060 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2062 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2064 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2065 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2071 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2073 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2074 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2075 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2076 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2077 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2078 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2080 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2081 utilities have not been installed.
2083 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2084 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2086 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2087 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2089 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2090 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2091 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2092 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2094 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2096 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2097 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2099 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2102 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2104 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2105 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2106 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2108 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2109 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2110 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2111 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2112 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2113 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2115 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2117 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2118 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2120 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2123 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2125 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2127 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2128 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2130 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2131 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2133 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2135 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2137 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2138 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2140 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2141 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2142 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2144 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2145 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2146 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2149 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2151 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2152 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2155 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2156 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2159 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2160 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2162 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2163 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2165 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2167 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2168 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2169 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2171 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2172 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2174 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2175 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2178 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2179 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2180 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2182 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2184 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2185 Christian Aistleitner.
2187 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2189 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2190 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2192 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2193 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2195 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2196 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2198 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2199 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2201 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2202 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2204 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2205 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2206 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2208 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2210 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2211 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2214 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2216 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2217 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2224 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2226 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2227 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2229 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2232 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2233 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2236 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2238 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2239 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2240 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2241 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2242 using channel bindings instead).
2244 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2245 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2246 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2247 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2248 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2251 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2253 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2255 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2256 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2258 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2259 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2260 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2262 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2264 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2266 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2267 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2269 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2271 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2273 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2275 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2276 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2278 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2280 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2281 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2284 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2285 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2287 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2288 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2291 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2293 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2295 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2296 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2298 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2301 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2302 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2304 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2305 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2307 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2309 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2311 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2314 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2317 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2319 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2320 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2321 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2322 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2324 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2326 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2327 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2328 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2329 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2332 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2333 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2334 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2336 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2337 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2338 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2339 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2341 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2342 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2343 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2344 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2345 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2346 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2347 delivery, as in LMTP.
2349 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2350 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2352 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2354 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2358 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2359 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2360 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2361 username as equal to the username.
2363 This change corrects that bug.
2365 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2366 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2367 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2369 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2371 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2372 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2373 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2374 NULL dereference and crash.
2376 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2378 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2379 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2380 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2382 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2384 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2385 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2386 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2387 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2388 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2389 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2390 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2391 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2392 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2393 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2394 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2396 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2397 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2399 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2400 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2403 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2404 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2405 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2406 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2407 an empty string is now equivalent.
2409 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2410 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2411 not performing validation itself.
2413 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2414 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2416 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2419 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2421 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2422 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2423 other false fix of the same issue.
2424 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2427 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2428 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2430 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2431 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2432 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2434 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2435 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2436 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2438 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2440 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2442 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2443 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2445 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2448 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2449 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2450 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2451 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2452 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2454 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2455 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2457 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2458 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2461 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2462 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2463 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2464 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2466 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2468 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2469 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2470 from multiple comments on this bug.
2472 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2474 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2475 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2478 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2479 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2481 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2482 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2488 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2490 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2496 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2497 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2498 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2500 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2502 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2505 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2507 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2509 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2511 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2512 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2514 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2515 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2517 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2518 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2520 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2521 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2522 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2524 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2526 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2527 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2529 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2531 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2533 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2534 non-compliant senders.
2535 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2537 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2538 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2539 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2541 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2542 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2543 in spool file corruption.
2545 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2546 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2547 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2550 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2551 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2552 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2554 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2555 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2557 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2559 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2561 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2563 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2564 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2565 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2567 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2568 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2569 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2570 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2572 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2573 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2575 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2576 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2577 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2578 resolver implementation change.
2580 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2581 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2583 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2585 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2587 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2588 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2590 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2591 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2593 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2594 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2596 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2597 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2598 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2599 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2600 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2602 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2604 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2605 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2606 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2608 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2610 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2611 read-only, out of scope).
2612 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2614 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2615 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2616 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2617 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2619 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2621 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2622 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2623 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2624 real issues in debug logging.
2626 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2627 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2629 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2630 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2631 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2633 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2634 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2635 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2638 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2639 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2641 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2642 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2643 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2644 needs to override this, it can.
2646 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2647 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2648 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2650 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2651 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2652 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2653 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2655 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2661 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2662 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2664 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2666 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2669 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2670 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2672 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2673 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2674 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2676 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2677 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2678 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2679 not safe for signals.
2681 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2682 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2683 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2684 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2687 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2689 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2690 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2691 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2692 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2693 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2695 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2696 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2697 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2698 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2699 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2700 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2702 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2703 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2704 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2705 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2707 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2708 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2709 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2710 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2712 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2713 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2714 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2715 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2716 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2717 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2718 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2719 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2720 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2722 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2723 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2724 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2725 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2727 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2728 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2729 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2730 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2731 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2732 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2733 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2734 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2735 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2736 details in the main documentation.
2738 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2740 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2742 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2743 repository when doing development or release builds.
2745 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2746 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2748 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2749 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2752 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2754 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2755 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2757 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2758 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2760 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2761 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2763 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2764 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2766 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2767 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2769 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2771 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2774 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2775 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2776 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2778 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2780 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2782 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2783 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2789 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2791 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2792 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2794 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2796 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2798 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2801 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2802 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2804 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2805 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2807 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2808 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2810 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2813 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2814 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2816 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2817 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2818 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2819 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2821 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2822 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2828 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2831 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2832 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2833 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2835 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2836 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2838 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2839 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2840 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2842 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2843 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2845 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2846 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2848 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2849 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2851 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2852 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2854 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2855 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2857 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2860 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2861 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2863 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2864 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2866 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2867 SQL string expansion failure details.
2868 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2870 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2871 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2873 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2874 extern declarations in function scope.
2875 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2877 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2878 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2879 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2882 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2883 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2885 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2886 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2888 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2889 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2891 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2892 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2894 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2895 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2898 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2900 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2902 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2903 Patch by Simon Arlott
2905 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2906 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2912 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2913 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2915 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2916 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2918 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2920 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2921 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2922 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2924 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2925 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2926 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2928 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2929 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2930 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2931 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2933 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2934 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2935 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2936 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2938 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2939 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2940 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2943 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2946 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2947 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2948 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2949 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2950 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2956 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2957 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2958 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2960 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2961 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2963 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2965 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2967 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2969 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2971 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2973 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2974 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2975 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2976 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2978 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2979 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2980 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2981 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2982 more caution in buffer sizes.
2984 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2986 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2988 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2990 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2992 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2994 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2996 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2998 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2999 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3000 ignore trailing whitespace.
3002 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3004 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3007 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3008 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3010 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3011 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3012 Notification from John Horne.
3014 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3017 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3018 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3021 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3024 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3025 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3026 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3028 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3029 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3030 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3033 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3034 option (effectively making it always true).
3036 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3037 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3039 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3040 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3042 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3043 run-time user, instead of root.
3045 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3046 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3048 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3049 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3052 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3053 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3054 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3056 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3058 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3064 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3065 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3068 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3069 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3072 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3073 Patch from Alain Williams
3075 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3077 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3078 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3080 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3081 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3083 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3085 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3087 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3088 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3090 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3092 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3094 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3095 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3096 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3098 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3099 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3101 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3102 Patch by Simon Arlott
3104 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3105 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3111 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3113 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3115 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3117 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3119 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3125 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3126 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3128 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3129 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3132 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3133 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3134 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3136 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3137 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3139 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3140 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3141 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3142 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3144 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3145 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3146 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3148 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3150 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3152 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3153 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3155 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3157 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3158 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3159 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3160 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3162 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3163 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3165 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3167 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3169 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3170 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3172 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3173 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3175 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3176 that they are available at delivery time.
3178 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3180 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3181 incoming_port log selectors.
3183 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3184 setting expands to an empty string.
3186 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3187 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3189 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3190 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3192 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3193 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3195 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3196 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3198 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3199 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3201 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3202 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3204 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3206 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3207 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3209 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3210 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3212 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3214 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3215 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3217 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3219 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3221 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3224 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3225 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3227 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3228 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3230 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3231 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3233 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3234 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3236 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3237 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3239 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3240 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3242 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3243 plus update to original patch.
3245 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3247 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3248 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3250 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3252 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3254 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3256 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3258 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3259 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3261 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3262 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3264 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3265 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3267 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3268 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3270 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3272 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3274 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3276 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3282 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3283 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3284 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3286 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3287 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3288 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3289 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3290 build errors in sieve.c.
3292 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3293 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3294 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3296 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3298 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3300 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3302 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3308 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3310 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3311 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3312 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3313 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3314 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3315 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3316 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3317 for iplsearch lookups.
3319 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3320 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3321 previously such lookups could never work.
3323 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3324 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3325 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3327 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3330 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3331 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3332 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3333 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3334 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3335 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3337 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3338 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3340 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3341 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3342 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3343 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3344 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3345 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3347 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3350 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3352 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3353 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3356 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3357 by clients under certain conditions.
3359 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3360 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3362 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3364 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3365 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3367 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3369 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3371 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3373 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3374 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3376 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3378 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3379 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3381 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3383 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3385 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3386 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3387 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3388 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3390 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3391 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3392 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3394 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3395 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3397 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3399 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3401 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3403 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3404 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3405 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3411 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3412 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3415 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3416 issue a MAIL command.
3418 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3420 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3422 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3423 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3424 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3425 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3426 item. This has been fixed.
3428 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3429 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3431 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3432 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3434 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3435 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3436 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3438 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3440 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3441 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3442 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3443 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3444 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3446 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3447 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3448 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3450 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3451 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3452 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3453 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3455 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3457 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3459 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3460 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3461 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3462 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3463 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3465 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3467 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3468 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3469 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3472 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3474 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3476 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3478 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3480 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3482 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3483 no_callout_flush is set.
3485 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3486 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3487 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3490 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3492 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3493 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3494 other ACL rejections are.
3496 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3497 with slight modification.
3499 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3500 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3502 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3503 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3506 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3507 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3509 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3511 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3512 expansion side effects.
3514 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3515 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3516 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3519 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3520 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3521 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3523 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3524 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3525 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3526 were accidentally chopped off.
3528 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3529 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3530 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3531 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3532 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3533 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3534 pipelining has not been advertised.
3536 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3538 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3539 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3540 This has been fixed.
3542 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3543 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3544 reported on Solaris.
3546 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3547 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3548 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3549 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3550 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3551 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3552 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3554 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3557 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3559 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3561 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3562 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3563 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3564 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3565 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3566 criteria to be more general.
3568 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3569 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3570 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3571 host_all_ignored option.
3573 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3574 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3575 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3576 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3577 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3578 is what is supposed to happen).
3580 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3581 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3582 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3583 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3584 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3587 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3588 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3589 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3590 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3591 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3592 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3595 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3597 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3598 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3600 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3601 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3603 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3605 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3607 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3608 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3609 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3610 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3611 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3612 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3613 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3614 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3615 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3616 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3617 least in a lot of common cases.
3619 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3620 advertised in response to EHLO.
3626 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3627 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3629 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3630 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3632 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3633 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3634 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3636 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3637 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3638 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3639 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3640 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3646 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3647 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3650 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3651 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3652 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3654 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3655 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3656 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3657 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3658 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3659 rather than extend the field.
3665 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3666 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3667 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3668 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3671 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3672 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3673 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3675 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3676 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3677 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3679 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3680 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3681 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3684 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3685 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3686 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3687 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3688 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3689 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3690 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3691 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3692 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3693 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3694 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3696 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3699 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3700 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3701 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3702 ignores EPIPE as well.
3704 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3705 (quoted-printable decoding).
3707 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3708 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3710 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3712 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3714 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3716 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3717 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3719 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3722 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3723 miscellaneous code fixes
3725 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3728 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3729 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3730 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3731 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3732 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3733 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3734 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3735 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3737 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3738 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3739 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3740 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3742 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3743 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3744 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3745 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3746 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3747 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3748 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3749 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3750 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3752 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3755 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3756 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3757 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3758 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3759 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3760 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3761 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3762 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3764 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3765 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3768 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3769 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3770 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3771 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3772 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3773 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3774 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3775 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3776 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3777 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3778 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3779 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3780 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3782 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3783 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3784 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3785 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3786 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3787 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3788 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3790 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3791 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3792 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3793 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3794 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3795 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3796 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3797 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3798 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3799 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3801 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3802 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3803 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3804 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3805 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3807 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3808 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3809 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3810 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3811 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3812 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3813 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3815 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3816 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3817 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3818 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3819 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3820 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3823 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3824 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3825 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3828 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3829 if any retry times were supplied.
3831 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3832 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3833 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3835 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3837 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3839 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3840 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3841 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3842 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3843 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3844 before) are ignored.
3846 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3847 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3849 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3850 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3851 committing the later change.]
3853 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3854 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3855 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3856 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3857 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3858 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3859 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3860 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3861 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3863 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3864 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3865 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3866 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3867 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3868 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3869 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3870 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3871 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3873 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3874 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3875 hammering the server.
3877 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3878 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3880 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3882 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3883 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3884 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3886 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3887 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3888 one case where this was not true.
3890 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3891 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3892 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3893 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3896 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3897 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3898 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3899 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3900 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3901 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3902 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3903 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3904 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3907 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3908 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3909 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3910 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3912 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3913 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3915 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3916 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3917 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3919 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3921 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3923 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3925 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3926 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3927 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3928 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3930 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3931 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3933 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3934 be meaningful with "accept".
3936 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3937 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3939 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3940 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3941 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3943 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3944 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3945 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3946 there is data to show.
3947 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3949 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3950 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3951 as well as the number of messages.
3953 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3954 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3955 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3957 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3958 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3959 have a flag are now skipped.
3961 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3962 Added the -emptyok flag.
3964 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3965 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3967 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3968 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3969 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3971 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3974 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3975 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3977 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3979 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3980 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3982 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3984 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3985 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3986 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3987 contravention of the specifications.
3989 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3990 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3991 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3993 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3994 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3995 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3997 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3999 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4000 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4001 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4002 some point in the past.
4004 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4005 transport during callout processing was broken.
4007 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4008 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4010 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4011 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4013 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4014 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4016 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4022 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4023 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4025 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4026 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4027 there is data to show.
4028 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4030 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4031 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4033 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4034 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4036 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4037 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4039 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4040 submissions from trusted users.
4042 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4043 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4045 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4046 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4047 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4048 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4049 there is now a framework to start from.
4051 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4052 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4053 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4055 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4057 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4059 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4061 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4062 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4063 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4065 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4068 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4069 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4070 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4072 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4073 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4074 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4077 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4078 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4079 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4080 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4081 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4083 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4084 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4086 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4088 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4089 operations in malware.c.
4091 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4094 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4095 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4096 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4099 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4100 statements to "add_header".
4102 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4103 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4105 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4106 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4109 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4113 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4114 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4115 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4118 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4119 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4121 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4122 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4124 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4125 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4126 any possible encoding problems.
4128 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4129 but not after initializing Perl.
4131 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4132 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4133 apparently, which is not desirable.
4135 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4138 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4141 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4143 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4144 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4145 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4146 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4148 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4149 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4150 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4152 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4153 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4154 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4157 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4158 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4159 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4160 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4161 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4167 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4168 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4170 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4173 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4174 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4175 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4176 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4177 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4178 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4179 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4180 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4183 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4185 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4186 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4187 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4189 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4190 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4191 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4194 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4195 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4197 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4198 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4199 option (which defaults to 0600).
4201 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4203 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4204 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4205 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4206 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4207 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4208 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4209 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4211 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4217 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4218 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4219 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4220 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4221 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4222 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4225 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4226 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4228 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4230 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4231 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4232 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4233 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4234 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4237 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4238 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4240 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4241 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4242 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4243 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4244 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4246 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4247 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4248 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4249 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4251 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4252 be the same on different OS.
4254 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4257 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4258 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4260 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4263 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4264 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4265 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4266 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4267 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4268 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4271 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4272 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4273 when Exim was called.
4275 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4276 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4278 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4279 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4280 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4281 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4283 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4284 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4285 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4286 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4289 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4290 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4291 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4293 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4294 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4295 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4297 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4300 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4301 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4302 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4303 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4304 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4305 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4306 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4307 values from the SRV records were lost.
4309 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4310 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4311 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4313 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4314 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4315 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4317 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4318 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4319 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4320 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4321 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4322 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4323 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4324 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4325 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4326 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4328 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4329 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4330 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4332 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4333 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4335 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4336 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4337 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4338 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4341 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4342 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4343 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4345 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4346 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4347 PH/23 above applies.
4349 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4350 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4351 (for which there is an explicit test).
4353 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4355 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4356 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4357 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4358 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4359 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4361 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4362 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4363 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4364 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4366 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4367 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4368 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4370 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4372 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4374 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4375 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4376 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4378 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4379 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4380 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4381 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4382 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4384 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4385 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4386 the message gets confusing).
4388 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4389 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4390 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4391 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4393 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4394 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4395 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4396 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4399 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4400 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4401 the different processes.
4403 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4405 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4407 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4408 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4410 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4411 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4413 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4414 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4415 messages matching specified criteria.
4417 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4419 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4420 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4422 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4423 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4424 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4425 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4426 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4427 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4428 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4429 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4430 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4431 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4433 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4434 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4435 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4437 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4439 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4440 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4441 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4442 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4443 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4444 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4445 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4448 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4449 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4451 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4453 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4455 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4457 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4458 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4459 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4460 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4461 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4462 size of the count of files.
4464 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4466 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4469 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4470 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4471 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4472 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4474 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4475 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4476 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4478 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4479 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4480 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4481 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4482 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4484 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4485 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4487 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4488 will now be deprecated.
4490 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4492 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4493 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4494 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4496 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4497 with very large, slow to parse queues
4499 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4501 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4503 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4504 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4505 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4508 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4509 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4510 Sieve code now uses this.
4512 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4513 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4515 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4516 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4518 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4520 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4521 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4522 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4523 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4524 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4526 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4527 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4528 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4529 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4531 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4533 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4535 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4536 is preferred over IPv4.
4538 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4539 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4540 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4541 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4542 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4543 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4544 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4546 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4547 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4548 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4550 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4552 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4553 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4554 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4555 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4556 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4557 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4558 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4559 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4560 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4561 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4562 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4564 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4565 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4566 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4572 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4574 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4575 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4577 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4578 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4579 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4581 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4583 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4586 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4589 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4590 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4591 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4594 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4595 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4597 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4598 inside the third argument.
4600 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4601 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4604 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4605 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4607 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4608 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4610 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4612 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4613 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4616 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4618 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4619 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4620 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4621 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4622 identical. For example:
4624 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4626 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4627 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4628 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4630 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4631 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4632 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4633 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4635 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4636 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4637 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4640 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4642 o fixes some comments
4643 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4644 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4645 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4646 and documents the missing references header update
4650 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4651 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4654 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4655 Electronic Mail") by including:
4657 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4659 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4660 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4661 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4662 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4663 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4665 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4667 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4669 The auto-replied keyword:
4671 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4672 message by an automatic process,
4674 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4676 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4677 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4679 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4680 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4683 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4684 to the default Received: header definition.
4686 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4688 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4689 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4690 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4692 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4693 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4694 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4696 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4697 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4698 and treats the condition as false.
4700 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4702 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4703 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4704 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4705 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4706 not changing the active code.
4708 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4709 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4711 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4712 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4714 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4717 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4718 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4719 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4720 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4721 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4722 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4723 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4724 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4725 the text comparison.
4727 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4728 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4729 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4730 The same fix has been applied.
4736 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4737 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4740 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4741 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4743 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4745 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4746 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4747 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4748 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4749 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4751 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4752 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4753 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4754 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4757 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4765 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4766 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4768 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4770 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4772 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4773 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4774 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4776 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4777 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4778 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4780 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4781 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4784 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4785 ${stat: expansion item.
4787 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4788 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4790 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4791 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4794 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4796 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4799 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4800 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4802 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4804 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4805 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4806 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4807 the end of the subprocess.
4809 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4810 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4811 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4812 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4813 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4815 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4817 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4819 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4820 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4822 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4824 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4826 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4827 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4830 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4832 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4833 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4834 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4836 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4837 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4839 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4840 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4842 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4843 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4845 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4846 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4848 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4849 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4850 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4851 contributed by a Radius user.
4853 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4854 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4856 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4857 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4859 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4862 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4863 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4866 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4867 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4868 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4869 header lines when this was not necessary.
4871 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4873 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4874 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4875 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4878 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4881 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4882 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4883 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4884 return code was incorrect.
4886 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4888 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4890 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4892 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4894 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4895 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4896 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4897 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4898 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4901 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4903 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4904 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4905 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4906 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4907 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4908 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4909 which is clearly wrong.
4911 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4913 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4914 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4915 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4918 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4919 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4921 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4923 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4924 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4926 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4927 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4929 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4930 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4932 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4933 recipients, not senders.
4935 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4936 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4938 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4940 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4942 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4943 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4944 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4945 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4947 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4949 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4950 clock is set back in time.
4952 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4953 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4955 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4956 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4958 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4959 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4962 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4963 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4966 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4969 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4971 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4972 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4973 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4975 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4976 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4977 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4978 helo verification defer as a failure.
4980 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4981 actual error message.
4987 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4989 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4990 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4991 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4992 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4994 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4996 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4997 can still be requested.
4999 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5000 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5001 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5002 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5004 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5005 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5006 circumstances, but probably never did.
5008 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5009 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5010 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5013 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5015 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5016 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5018 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5020 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5022 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5023 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5024 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5025 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5026 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5027 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5029 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5030 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5031 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5032 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5033 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5034 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5036 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5037 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5039 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5040 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5042 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5043 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5045 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5047 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5049 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5051 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5053 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5055 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5057 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5059 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5060 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5061 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5063 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5064 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5065 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5066 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5068 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5069 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5070 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5072 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5073 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5074 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5075 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5077 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5078 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5081 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5082 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5083 should work with maildirs and everything.
5085 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5086 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5088 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5091 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5092 function for BDB 4.3.
5094 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5096 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5097 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5100 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5101 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5102 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5103 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5104 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5105 formatting function string_vformat().
5107 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5108 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5109 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5110 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5111 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5112 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5113 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5114 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5116 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5117 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5120 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5121 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5123 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5124 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5125 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5126 test. It is now used for both.
5128 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5129 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5130 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5131 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5132 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5133 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5135 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5136 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5137 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5140 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5141 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5142 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5144 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5145 experimental DomainKeys support:
5147 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5148 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5149 the control was given.
5151 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5153 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5155 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5157 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5158 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5159 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5162 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5163 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5164 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5165 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5166 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5167 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5170 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5171 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5172 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5173 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5174 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5175 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5177 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5178 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5179 do -d+all out of habit.
5181 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5182 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5185 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5186 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5187 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5188 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5189 record types that Exim uses.
5191 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5192 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5193 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5194 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5195 non-existent file that was broken.
5197 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5198 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5200 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5201 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5202 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5204 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5206 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5207 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5208 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5209 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5210 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5213 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5214 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5215 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5216 at a slight CPU cost.
5218 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5219 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5221 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5224 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5226 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5227 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5233 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5234 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5236 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5238 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5240 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5241 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5243 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5244 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5245 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5246 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5247 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5248 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5251 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5252 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5253 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5254 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5257 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5258 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5259 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5260 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5261 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5262 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5263 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5266 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5267 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5269 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5270 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5271 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5272 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5273 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5274 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5276 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5277 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5278 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5279 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5281 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5284 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5285 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5287 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5288 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5289 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5290 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5293 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5295 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5296 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5298 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5299 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5300 to what was transported.)
5302 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5304 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5305 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5306 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5307 spamd_address settings.
5309 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5310 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5311 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5312 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5313 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5315 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5317 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5318 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5319 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5320 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5321 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5323 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5324 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5326 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5327 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5328 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5329 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5330 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5331 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5332 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5335 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5336 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5337 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5338 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5339 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5340 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5341 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5344 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5346 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5347 driver and ACL definitions.
5349 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5350 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5352 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5353 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5354 understands it better than I do:
5356 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5357 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5359 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5360 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5361 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5362 => three warnings about OTP not working
5363 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5365 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5366 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5367 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5368 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5370 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5371 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5373 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5374 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5375 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5377 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5378 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5381 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5382 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5385 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5386 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5387 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5389 warn !verify = sender
5390 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5392 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5393 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5395 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5397 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5398 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5400 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5401 nomenclature these days.)
5403 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5404 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5406 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5407 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5408 . First host does not offer TLS;
5409 . First host accepts first address;
5410 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5411 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5412 . Second host accepts second address.
5413 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5414 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5417 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5418 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5419 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5420 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5421 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5423 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5424 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5426 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5427 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5429 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5430 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5431 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5433 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5434 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5437 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5439 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5440 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5441 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5442 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5443 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5444 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5445 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5447 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5448 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5449 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5450 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5451 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5453 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5454 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5457 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5458 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5459 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5460 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5461 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5462 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5464 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5466 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5467 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5468 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5469 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5470 printable escape sequences.
5472 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5473 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5476 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5477 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5480 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5481 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5482 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5483 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5484 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5486 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5487 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5488 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5490 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5492 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5493 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5496 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5497 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5498 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5499 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5500 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5501 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5502 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5503 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5504 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5507 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5508 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5509 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5510 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5514 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5515 ----------------------------------------
5517 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5518 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5519 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5520 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5521 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5522 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5525 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5526 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5527 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5528 historical information.
5534 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5536 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5537 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5539 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5540 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5543 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5544 filter fails to execute.
5546 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5547 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5548 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5549 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5550 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5552 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5554 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5555 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5556 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5557 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5559 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5560 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5561 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5562 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5563 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5565 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5567 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5569 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5570 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5571 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5572 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5574 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5575 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5576 sender verification.
5578 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5579 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5581 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5583 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5586 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5587 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5589 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5590 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5592 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5593 information about exactly what failed.
5595 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5597 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5598 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5599 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5601 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5602 It is now set to "smtps".
5604 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5605 ignore_target_hosts.
5607 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5608 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5609 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5610 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5613 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5614 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5615 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5617 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5618 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5619 wake it up if nothing else does.
5621 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5622 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5623 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5626 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5627 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5629 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5631 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5632 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5633 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5634 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5635 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5636 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5637 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5638 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5640 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5641 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5642 than one IP address.
5644 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5645 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5646 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5647 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5649 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5650 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5651 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5652 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5653 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5656 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5657 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5658 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5659 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5661 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5662 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5665 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5666 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5667 $sender_host_address.
5669 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5670 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5671 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5672 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5673 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5676 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5678 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5679 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5681 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5682 just the host names, not the priorities.
5684 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5685 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5686 controlled by a keyword.
5688 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5689 multiple records are returned.
5691 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5692 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5695 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5697 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5698 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5700 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5701 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5702 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5704 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5706 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5708 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5710 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5711 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5712 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5713 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5714 because the tests only now provoked it.
5716 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5717 (this can affect the format of dates).
5719 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5720 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5721 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5722 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5724 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5726 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5727 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5728 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5729 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5731 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5732 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5733 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5735 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5738 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5739 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5740 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5741 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5742 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5743 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5746 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5747 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5748 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5751 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5752 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5753 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5755 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5756 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5757 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5758 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5759 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5760 so I produce this patch..."
5762 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5763 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5766 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5767 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5768 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5769 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5772 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5774 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5775 long debug lines gets shown.
5777 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5778 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5780 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5782 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5783 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5784 of $primary_hostname.
5786 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5787 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5788 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5789 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5790 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5791 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5792 by change 4.50/55 above.
5794 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5795 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5796 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5797 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5798 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5799 running as the user.
5802 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5803 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5804 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5807 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5808 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5810 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5811 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5812 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5813 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5814 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5816 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5817 This has been fixed.
5819 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5820 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5821 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5822 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5825 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5827 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5828 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5829 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5830 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5832 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5833 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5835 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5836 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5837 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5839 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5840 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5841 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5844 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5845 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5846 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5848 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5849 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5850 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5851 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5853 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5854 during host lookups.
5856 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5857 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5859 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5861 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5862 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5863 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5864 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5865 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5868 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5869 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5871 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5872 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5873 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5875 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5877 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5878 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5879 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5880 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5881 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5882 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5885 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5886 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5887 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5888 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5889 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5891 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5894 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5896 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5897 "vacation" handling.
5899 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5900 OS variants using glibc.
5902 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5905 ----------------------------------------------------
5906 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5907 ----------------------------------------------------
5913 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5914 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5917 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5918 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5921 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5922 filter fails to execute.
5924 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5925 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5926 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5927 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5928 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5930 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5931 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5932 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5933 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5935 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5936 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5937 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5938 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5939 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5941 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5943 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5944 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5945 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5946 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5948 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5949 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5950 sender verification.
5952 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5953 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5955 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5956 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5958 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5959 ignore_target_hosts.
5961 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5962 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5963 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5964 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5967 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5968 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5969 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5971 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5972 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5973 wake it up if nothing else does.
5975 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5976 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5977 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5980 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5981 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5983 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5985 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5986 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5989 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5990 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5993 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5994 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5995 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5996 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5997 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6000 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6001 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6004 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6005 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6006 $sender_host_address.
6008 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6010 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6011 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6012 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6014 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6017 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6018 (this can affect the format of dates).
6020 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6021 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6022 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6023 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6025 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6026 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6027 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6029 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6030 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6031 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6032 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6034 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6035 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6036 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6038 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6041 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6042 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6043 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6044 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6045 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6046 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6049 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6050 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6051 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6052 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6055 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6056 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6057 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6058 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6059 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6060 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6061 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6063 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6064 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6065 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6066 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6067 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6068 running as the user.
6071 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6072 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6073 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6076 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6077 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6078 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6079 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6080 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6082 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6083 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6084 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6085 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6088 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6089 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6090 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6091 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6092 because the tests only now provoked it.
6098 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6099 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6100 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6101 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6102 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6103 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6104 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6106 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6107 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6110 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6112 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6114 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6115 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6118 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6119 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6120 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6121 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6122 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6124 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6125 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6127 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6129 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6131 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6134 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6135 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6137 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6138 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6139 affecting debugging statements).
6141 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6143 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6144 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6145 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6146 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6147 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6148 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6149 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6150 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6151 after the received time, and all would be well.
6153 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6154 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6155 condition in an expansion string.
6157 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6159 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6160 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6161 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6162 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6163 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6164 job under whatever limits there are.
6166 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6168 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6171 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6172 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6173 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6174 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6177 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6178 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6179 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6180 binary data in such strings.
6182 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6184 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6185 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6186 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6187 failure, which is pointless.
6189 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6191 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6193 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6194 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6195 Sender: header lines.
6197 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6198 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6199 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6201 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6202 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6203 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6204 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6205 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6208 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6209 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6210 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6211 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6212 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6214 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6215 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6216 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6219 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6220 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6222 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6223 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6225 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6227 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6229 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6231 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6234 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6236 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6238 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6239 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6240 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6241 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6243 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6244 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6250 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6251 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6252 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6254 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6255 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6256 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6257 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6258 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6259 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6261 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6262 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6263 verification failure".
6265 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6266 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6267 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6268 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6270 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6271 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6272 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6273 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6274 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6275 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6276 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6277 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6278 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6279 treated as a timeout.
6281 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6282 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6283 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6284 not set for Exim filters).
6286 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6287 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6288 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6290 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6292 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6293 try to make them clearer.
6295 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6296 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6298 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6300 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6302 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6303 only the Cygwin environment.
6305 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6306 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6307 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6308 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6309 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6311 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6312 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6313 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6314 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6315 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6316 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6317 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6319 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6320 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6322 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6324 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6325 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6326 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6328 To: susanne@some.where
6330 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6331 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6332 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6333 of addresses in From: header lines).
6335 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6336 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6337 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6339 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6340 treated as non-personal.
6342 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6343 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6345 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6347 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6349 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6350 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6351 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6353 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6354 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6356 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6357 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6358 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6359 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6360 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6361 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6363 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6364 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6365 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6366 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6367 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6368 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6369 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6370 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6372 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6374 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6375 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6377 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6378 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6379 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6381 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6382 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6384 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6385 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6386 rather than long int.
6388 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6390 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6396 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6397 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6398 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6399 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6400 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6401 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6407 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6408 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6410 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6411 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6412 socklen_t is defined.
6414 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6417 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6420 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6421 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6422 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6423 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6424 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6426 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6427 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6428 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6429 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6431 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6432 of flapping under certain conditions.
6434 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6435 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6436 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6438 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6440 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6442 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6443 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6444 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6445 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6447 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6448 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6449 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6450 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6451 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6452 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6453 preserved with the message after it was received.
6455 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6456 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6457 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6458 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6459 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6460 test suite worked just fine.
6462 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6463 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6464 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6466 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6467 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6470 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6471 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6472 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6473 does not fully solve it.
6475 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6476 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6477 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6478 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6479 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6481 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6482 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6483 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6485 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6486 string, for example:
6488 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6490 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6491 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6492 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6493 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6494 the routers could not see them.
6496 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6497 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6499 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6500 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6503 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6504 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6505 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6506 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6507 that needed quoting.
6509 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6510 was not being matched caselessly.
6512 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6515 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6516 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6517 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6518 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6519 when use_sender is false.
6521 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6523 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6525 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6527 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6528 the configuration file.
6530 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6531 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6533 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6535 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6536 bytes in the message body.
6538 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6539 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6542 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6544 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6546 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6547 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6548 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6549 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6556 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6557 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6559 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6560 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6561 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6562 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6563 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6565 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6566 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6568 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6569 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6570 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6572 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6573 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6574 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6576 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6579 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6580 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6581 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6582 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6583 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6584 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6585 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6591 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6592 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6593 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6594 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6595 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6596 default (and expected) setting.
6598 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6599 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6600 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6601 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6603 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6604 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6606 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6609 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6610 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6611 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6612 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6613 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6614 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6616 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6617 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6618 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6620 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6621 part (NOT match_host).
6623 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6625 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6626 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6627 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6628 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6629 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6630 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6631 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6632 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6633 the same named file.
6635 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6636 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6639 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6640 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6641 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6642 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6645 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6646 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6647 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6649 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6651 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6653 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6655 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6656 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6658 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6659 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6660 before starting the TLS session.
6662 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6664 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6665 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6667 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6668 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6669 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6670 colon in the middle).
6676 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6677 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6678 multiple configurations are in use.
6680 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6681 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6682 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6683 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6684 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6685 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6687 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6688 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6690 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6691 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6692 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6694 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6695 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6698 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6699 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6701 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6703 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6704 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6706 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6714 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6715 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6716 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6717 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6718 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6720 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6723 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6724 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6725 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6726 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6727 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6728 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6730 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6731 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6732 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6733 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6734 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6735 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6736 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6739 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6740 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6741 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6742 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6743 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6745 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6747 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6748 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6749 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6751 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6753 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6754 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6755 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6758 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6759 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6761 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6762 Three changes have been made:
6764 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6765 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6766 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6767 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6768 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6770 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6773 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6774 the modified behaviour.
6780 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6783 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6784 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6786 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6787 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6788 try to track down a specific problem.
6790 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6791 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6792 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6794 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6797 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6798 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6799 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6800 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6801 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6802 some earlier ones do not.
6804 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6806 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6807 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6808 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6809 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6810 address literals are enabled, of course).
6812 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6814 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6815 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6816 by a command such as
6820 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6822 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6824 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6825 remained set. It is now erased.
6827 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6828 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6830 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6831 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6832 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6833 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6834 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6835 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6836 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6837 appropriate error code.
6839 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6840 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6841 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6842 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6843 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6844 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6846 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6847 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6848 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6850 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6851 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6852 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6853 terminate the header.
6855 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6856 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6857 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6859 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6860 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6861 (4.30/29). In particular:
6863 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6866 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6867 to write a maildirsize file.
6869 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6870 the transport, the new value overrides.
6872 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6875 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6876 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6877 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6880 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6881 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6882 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6885 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6886 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6887 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6889 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6890 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6893 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6894 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6895 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6897 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6899 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6901 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6903 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6904 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6907 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6908 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6909 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6910 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6911 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6912 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6913 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6916 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6917 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6918 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6919 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6920 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6923 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6924 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6925 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6926 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6927 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6928 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6929 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6930 cached value only when the same options are set.
6932 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6934 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6935 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6936 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6937 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6938 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6940 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6941 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6942 it is clearly obsolete.
6944 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6947 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6948 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6949 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6952 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6953 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6954 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6955 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6956 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6958 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6959 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6960 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6961 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6963 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6965 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6967 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6968 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6971 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6972 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6973 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6974 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6975 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6976 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6979 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6980 with the -f command-line option.
6982 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6983 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6984 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6985 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6986 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6987 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6989 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6990 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6993 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6994 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6995 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6996 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6997 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6998 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6999 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7000 buffer is too small.
7002 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7003 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7005 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7006 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7007 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7008 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7009 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7010 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7011 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7012 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7013 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7015 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7016 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7017 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7019 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7020 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7023 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7024 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7025 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7026 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7027 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7029 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7030 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7031 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7032 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7035 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7037 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7039 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7040 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7042 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7043 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7044 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7046 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7047 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7048 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7049 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7050 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7052 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7053 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7054 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7055 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7056 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7057 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7058 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7060 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7061 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7062 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7063 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7064 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7065 the test of how many are available.
7067 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7068 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7069 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7070 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7071 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7072 new message is started.
7074 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7075 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7077 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7078 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7080 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7081 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7082 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7085 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7086 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7087 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7088 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7089 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7090 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7091 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7093 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7094 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7095 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7096 interpreted as octal.
7098 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7101 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7102 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7103 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7104 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7105 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7106 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7108 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7109 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7110 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7111 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7113 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7114 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7115 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7116 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7118 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7119 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7122 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7123 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7125 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7127 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7128 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7129 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7130 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7132 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7133 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7134 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7135 supplied", which is not helpful.
7137 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7138 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7139 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7141 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7142 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7143 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7144 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7145 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7146 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7147 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7148 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7150 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7151 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7152 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7153 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7154 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7156 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7157 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7158 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7159 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7160 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7161 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7163 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7164 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7165 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7167 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7169 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7170 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7171 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7174 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7176 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7177 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7178 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7179 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7180 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7181 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7182 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7183 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7185 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7186 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7187 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7188 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7189 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7191 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7194 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7195 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7196 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7197 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7198 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7199 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7200 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7201 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7202 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7208 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7209 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7210 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7212 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7215 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7216 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7217 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7219 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7220 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7221 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7222 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7223 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7224 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7226 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7227 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7228 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7229 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7230 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7231 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7232 the Exim test suite.
7234 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7235 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7236 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7237 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7239 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7240 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7241 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7242 specify it in this variable.
7244 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7245 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7246 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7247 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7249 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7250 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7251 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7252 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7254 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7255 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7256 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7257 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7258 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7260 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7262 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7265 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7266 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7267 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7268 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7269 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7271 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7272 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7274 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7275 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7276 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7277 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7278 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7280 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7281 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7283 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7284 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7285 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7287 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7288 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7290 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7291 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7293 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7294 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7295 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7297 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7298 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7300 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7301 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7302 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7303 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7305 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7307 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7308 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7309 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7310 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7312 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7314 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7315 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7317 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7319 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7320 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7321 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7322 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7323 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7324 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7326 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7328 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7329 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7332 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7334 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7335 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7337 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7338 550 Sender verify failed
7340 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7341 the final line of the response.
7343 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7344 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7345 all other user lookups.
7347 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7350 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7351 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7352 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7353 result into an int without checking.
7355 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7356 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7357 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7359 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7360 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7361 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7362 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7364 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7367 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7368 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7370 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7371 to the empty sender.
7373 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7374 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7375 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7376 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7377 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7378 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7379 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7382 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7383 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7384 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7385 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7388 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7389 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7391 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7394 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7395 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7397 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7399 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7400 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7403 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7404 as soon as it is encountered.
7406 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7408 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7411 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7412 recognizes a tab character.
7414 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7415 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7416 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7417 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7419 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7421 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7424 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7426 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7428 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7429 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7432 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7433 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7434 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7435 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7436 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7438 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7439 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7441 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7442 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7443 list (.included file names were always shown).
7445 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7446 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7447 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7450 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7451 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7453 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7455 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7457 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7459 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7460 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7461 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7462 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7463 failures to open the logs.
7465 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7466 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7467 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7468 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7469 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7470 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7471 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7477 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7478 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7479 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7482 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7483 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7484 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7486 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7487 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7488 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7490 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7491 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7492 causing some misleading effects.
7494 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7495 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7496 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7498 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7499 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7500 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7501 queue-runner function directly.
7507 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7510 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7511 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7512 was always written to the default place.
7514 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7515 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7516 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7518 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7520 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7522 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7523 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7524 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7526 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7527 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7530 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7531 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7532 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7534 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7535 command line option is disabled.
7537 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7538 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7540 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7542 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7544 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7545 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7547 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7549 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7550 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7551 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7552 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7553 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7554 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7556 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7557 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7560 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7561 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7563 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7564 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7566 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7567 received was valid base64.
7569 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7570 name of the variable that was being set.
7572 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7574 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7575 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7576 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7577 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7578 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7579 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7581 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7583 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7584 nor realm was specified.
7586 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7587 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7588 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7589 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7591 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7592 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7593 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7595 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7596 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7597 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7599 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7600 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7601 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7602 some systems use these upper case variants.
7604 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7605 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7606 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7607 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7609 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7611 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7612 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7614 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7615 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7618 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7620 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7621 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7622 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7623 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7625 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7628 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7629 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7630 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7632 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7633 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7635 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7636 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7637 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7638 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7640 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7641 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7642 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7644 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7646 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7647 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7648 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7649 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7652 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7653 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7654 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7656 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7658 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7659 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7661 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7662 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7664 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7665 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7666 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7667 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7668 when emails are that large.
7675 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7676 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7678 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7679 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7680 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7682 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7683 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7684 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7686 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7687 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7688 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7689 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7690 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7692 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7693 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7694 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7695 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7696 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7699 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7700 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7701 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7702 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7703 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7704 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7705 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7706 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7707 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7708 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7709 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7710 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7711 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7712 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7714 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7715 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7718 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7719 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7720 error should be diagnosed.
7722 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7723 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7724 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7725 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7726 appeared instead of "NULL".
7728 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7729 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7730 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7731 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7732 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7733 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7736 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7737 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7738 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7744 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7745 or receiver verification errors.
7747 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7750 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7751 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7752 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7753 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7755 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7756 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7757 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7758 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7759 shouldn't happen again.
7761 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7762 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7763 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7765 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7766 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7768 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7770 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7771 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7773 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7774 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7777 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7778 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7779 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7781 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7782 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7783 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7784 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7786 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7787 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7788 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7789 to define what should happen).
7791 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7792 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7793 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7795 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7797 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7799 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7800 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7802 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7803 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7804 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7805 structure in all cases.
7807 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7808 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7809 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7810 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7812 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7813 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7816 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7817 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7819 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7820 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7822 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7823 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7824 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7826 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7827 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7828 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7830 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7831 the book and for uniformity.
7833 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7835 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7836 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7837 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7838 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7839 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7840 non-existent command as the problem.
7842 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7843 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7844 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7846 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7848 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7849 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7850 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7852 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7853 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7854 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7855 timestamps using strftime().
7857 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7858 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7860 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7861 transport-time rewrites.
7863 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7864 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7865 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7866 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7868 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7869 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7871 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7872 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7873 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7874 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7877 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7878 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7879 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7880 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7881 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7882 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7883 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7885 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7886 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7887 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7888 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7889 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7891 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7892 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7893 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7894 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7895 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7896 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7897 remaining text gets split now.
7899 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7900 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7901 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7902 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7904 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7905 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7906 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7907 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7910 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7911 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7912 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7913 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7914 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7915 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7916 passed through if needed.
7918 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7919 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7920 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7921 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7922 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7923 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7925 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7926 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7927 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7928 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7929 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7931 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7932 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7933 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7934 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7935 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7937 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7938 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7941 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7942 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7943 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7944 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7945 mayhem of various kinds.
7947 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7948 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7949 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7950 the right test for positive values.
7952 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7953 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7954 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7955 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7956 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7957 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7958 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7959 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7960 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7961 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7964 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7967 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7968 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7971 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7972 the existing equality matching.
7974 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7975 dealing with inode numbers.
7977 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7978 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7979 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7981 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7982 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7983 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7984 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7987 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7988 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7989 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7990 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7991 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7992 relay addresses has also been removed.
7994 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7996 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7997 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7998 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8000 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8001 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8002 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8003 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8004 processing applies to CR:
8006 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8007 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8009 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8010 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8011 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8012 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8014 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8015 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8016 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8018 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8019 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8020 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8021 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8022 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8023 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8026 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8029 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8030 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8031 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8032 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8035 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8037 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8039 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8041 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8042 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8043 not considered personal.
8045 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8047 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8049 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8051 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8052 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8053 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8054 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8055 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8056 header lines, and spool format errors.
8058 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8059 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8060 for more flexibility.
8062 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8063 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8064 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8066 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8069 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8070 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8071 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8072 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8073 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8074 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8075 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8076 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8077 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8079 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8080 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8081 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8082 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8083 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8084 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8085 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8087 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8088 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8089 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8091 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8092 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8093 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8094 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8095 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8096 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8097 instead of killing the process with assert().
8099 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8100 than Unicode encoding.
8102 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8103 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8104 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8105 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8107 77. Added process_log_path.
8109 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8110 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8112 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8113 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8115 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8116 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8117 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8119 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8120 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8121 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8122 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8123 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8126 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8127 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8130 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8131 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8132 they will be used during message reception.
8138 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.