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 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
9 SMTP connection" log lines.
11 JH/02 Option default value updates:
12 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
13 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
15 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
17 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
18 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
19 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
21 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
22 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
23 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
26 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
27 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
29 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
30 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
31 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
33 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
34 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
35 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
36 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
37 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
39 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
40 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
43 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
44 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
46 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
47 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
48 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
50 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
51 API changes in libopendmarc.
53 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
54 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
55 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
57 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
58 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
60 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
61 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
62 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
65 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
66 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
69 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
70 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
71 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
72 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
73 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
74 is strictly an incompatible change.
75 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
76 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
78 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
79 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
80 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
81 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
84 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
85 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
86 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
87 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
89 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
90 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
91 iteslf returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
92 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
93 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
94 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
97 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
98 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
105 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
106 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
107 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
110 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
111 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
113 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
114 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
115 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
116 not be modified by local-scan code.
118 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
119 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
121 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
122 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
125 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
126 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
128 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
129 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
132 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
133 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
134 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
136 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
137 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
138 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
140 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
141 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
142 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
143 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
144 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
145 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
146 Assorted crashes happen.
148 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
149 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
150 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
153 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
154 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
155 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
156 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
158 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
159 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
160 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
163 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
165 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
166 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
169 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
170 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
171 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
173 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
174 result of expansion operators and items.
176 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
177 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
178 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
179 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
181 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
183 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
184 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
185 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
186 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
189 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
190 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
192 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
193 Previously only the domain part was returned.
195 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
196 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
197 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
198 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
200 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
201 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
202 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
203 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
205 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
206 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
207 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
208 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
209 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
212 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
213 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
214 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
216 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
217 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
218 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
219 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
221 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
222 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
223 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
224 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
226 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
227 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
228 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
229 Previously only the server IP was used.
231 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
232 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
233 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
234 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
236 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
237 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
238 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
240 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
241 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
242 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
245 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
246 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
248 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
249 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
255 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
256 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
257 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
259 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
260 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
261 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
262 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
264 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
265 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
266 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
267 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
268 so could be handling tainted values.
270 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
271 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
272 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
274 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
275 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
276 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
279 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
280 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
281 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
282 to align better with RFC 6125.
284 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
285 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
286 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
287 by adding a release action in that path.
289 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
290 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
291 dynamically-created buffers.
293 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
294 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
295 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
296 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
298 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
299 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
300 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
301 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
303 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
304 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
305 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
307 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
308 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
309 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
310 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
312 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
313 excluded, not matching the documentation.
315 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
316 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
318 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
319 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
320 this was a coding error.
322 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
323 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
324 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
325 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
326 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
327 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
328 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
330 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
331 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
332 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
333 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
335 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
336 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
337 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
338 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
339 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
341 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
342 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
345 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
346 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
347 domain-parking registrar.
349 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
350 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
351 after removing the newline.
353 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
354 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
355 option set, which was previously used.
357 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
360 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
361 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
362 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
363 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
365 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
366 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
367 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
368 exim.dev.20160529.3).
370 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
371 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
372 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
374 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
375 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
376 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
379 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
380 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
381 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
383 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
384 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
385 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
386 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
389 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
390 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
391 there, handle PRX and TFO.
393 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
394 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
395 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
396 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
397 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
399 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
400 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
401 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
402 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
405 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
406 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
408 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
411 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
412 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
413 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
414 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
415 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
417 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
419 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
420 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
421 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
422 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
423 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
424 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
426 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
427 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
429 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
430 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
431 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
433 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
434 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
437 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
438 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
439 of a new variable: $auth4.
441 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
442 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
443 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
444 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
445 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
447 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
448 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
449 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
450 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
452 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
453 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
454 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
456 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
457 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
458 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
459 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
462 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
463 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
464 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
467 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
468 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
469 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
470 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
472 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
473 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
475 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
476 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
477 looked as if if might be one.
479 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
480 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
481 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
482 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
483 messages can show the proxy information.
485 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
486 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
487 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
488 "queue_time_exclusive".
490 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
491 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
492 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
494 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
495 making it unusable in complex expressions.
497 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
498 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
501 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
503 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
505 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
507 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
508 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
509 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
510 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
512 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
513 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
515 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
516 better. Reported by Qualys.
518 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
519 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
522 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
524 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
527 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
529 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
530 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
531 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
532 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
534 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
535 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
537 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
538 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
539 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
540 mode until after various protocol state checks.
541 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
543 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
545 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
546 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
548 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
551 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
552 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
553 executed child processes (if any).
555 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
558 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
559 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
560 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
561 been reported on other platforms.
563 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
565 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
566 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
567 Not supported on Solaris 10.
569 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
570 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
571 since fakereject was originally introduced.
573 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
574 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
576 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
577 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
578 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
581 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
582 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
583 which only permit IP addresses.
589 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
590 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
591 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
593 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
595 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
596 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
599 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
600 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
601 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
603 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
605 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
607 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
608 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
609 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
611 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
612 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
613 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
615 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
616 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
618 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
619 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
622 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
623 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
624 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
625 should both provide the file and set the option.
626 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
628 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
629 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
631 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
632 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
633 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
634 Authentication-Results: header.
636 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
637 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
638 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
639 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
641 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
642 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
643 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
644 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
645 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
646 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
647 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
649 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
650 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
651 copies while it is still usable.
653 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
654 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
655 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
657 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
658 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
660 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
661 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
662 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
663 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
665 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
666 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
667 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
670 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
671 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
672 - the pipe transport command
673 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
674 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
676 - paths used by single-key lookups
677 Previously this was permitted.
679 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
680 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
681 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
682 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
684 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
685 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
686 support larger malloc requests.
688 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
689 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
690 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
691 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
693 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
694 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
695 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
696 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
699 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
700 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
701 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
702 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
703 data being length-specified.
705 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
706 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
707 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
708 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
710 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
711 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
712 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
713 not being properly tracked.
715 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
716 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
717 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
718 minute could be seen.
720 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
721 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
722 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
724 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
725 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
727 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
728 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
731 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
733 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
734 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
736 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
737 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
738 filesystem as sufficient validation.
740 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
741 argument is supplied.
743 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
744 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
745 access under Exim's current working directory.
747 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
748 Previously no event was raised.
750 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
751 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
752 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
755 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
756 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
757 the size of the signature hash.
759 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
760 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
762 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
763 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
764 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
765 dropped between messages.
767 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
768 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
769 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
770 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
772 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
773 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
774 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
775 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
776 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
777 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
778 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
779 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
780 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
782 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
783 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
784 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
786 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
787 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
794 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
795 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
797 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
798 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
801 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
804 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
806 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
808 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
809 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
811 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
812 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
813 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
814 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
815 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
816 suitably configured).
818 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
819 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
821 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
822 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
825 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
826 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
828 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
829 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
830 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
831 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
834 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
835 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
836 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
838 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
841 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
842 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
844 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
845 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
846 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
847 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
850 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
851 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
852 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
853 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
856 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
857 shared (NFS) environment.
859 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
860 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
863 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
864 on some platforms for bit 31.
866 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
867 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
868 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
869 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
870 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
871 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
872 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
873 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
875 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
877 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
878 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
880 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
881 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
884 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
885 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
888 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
889 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
890 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
893 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
894 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
895 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
897 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
898 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
899 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
900 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
901 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
903 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
906 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
907 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
908 be requested on all coneections.
910 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
911 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
913 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
915 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
916 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
917 one for these; the option was ignored.
919 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
920 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
921 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
922 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
924 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
925 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
926 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
929 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
930 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
931 error ignored was made.
933 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
935 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
936 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
937 values, to catch one form of exploit.
939 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
940 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
941 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
943 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
944 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
947 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
948 them in our smtp response.
950 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
951 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
952 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
953 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
954 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
956 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
957 link count into consideration.
959 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
960 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
962 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
963 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
964 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
967 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
969 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
971 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
973 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
974 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
975 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
976 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
978 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
980 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
981 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
984 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
985 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
986 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
988 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
989 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
990 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
992 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
993 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
994 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
995 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
996 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
997 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
998 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
999 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1001 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1002 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1003 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1005 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1006 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1007 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1009 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1010 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1017 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1018 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1020 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1021 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1023 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1024 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1025 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1027 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1028 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1029 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1031 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1032 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1033 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1034 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1035 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1038 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1039 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1041 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1042 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1043 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1044 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1045 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1046 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1047 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1049 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1050 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1052 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1055 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1056 Previously this would segfault.
1058 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1061 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1062 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1063 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1064 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1065 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1066 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1068 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1070 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1071 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1072 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1073 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1075 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1077 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1078 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1079 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1080 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1082 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1084 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1086 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1087 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1088 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1090 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1091 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1092 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1094 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1096 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1097 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1098 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1099 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1101 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1102 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1103 promised '?' replacement.
1105 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1107 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1108 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1109 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1110 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1111 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1113 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1114 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1115 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1117 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1118 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1119 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1121 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1122 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1123 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1125 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1126 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1127 hope that is portable enough.
1129 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1130 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1131 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1132 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1134 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1135 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1136 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1138 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1139 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1140 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1141 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1143 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1144 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1146 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1147 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1148 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1149 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1151 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1152 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1153 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1155 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1156 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1157 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1158 the previous G, M, k.
1160 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1161 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1164 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1165 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1166 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1167 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1169 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1170 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1172 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1173 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1174 off past the nul-terimation.
1176 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1177 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1178 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1179 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1180 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1182 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1184 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1185 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1186 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1189 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1190 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1192 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1193 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1194 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1196 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1197 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1198 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1200 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1201 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1207 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1208 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1209 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1210 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1211 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1212 be defined in redis_servers.
1214 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1215 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1217 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1218 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1219 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1220 extant use locations.
1222 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1223 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1225 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1226 Previously only the last row was returned.
1228 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1229 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1230 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1231 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1234 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1235 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1236 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1237 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1238 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1239 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1240 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1241 Main pool for expansions.
1242 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1243 active in the testsuite.
1244 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1246 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1247 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1248 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1249 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1252 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1253 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1256 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1257 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1258 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1260 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1261 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1262 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1264 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1265 rows affected is given instead).
1267 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1268 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1270 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1271 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1272 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1273 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1274 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1276 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1277 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1278 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1280 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1281 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1282 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1283 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1286 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1287 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1288 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1291 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1293 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1294 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1296 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1297 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1298 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1300 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1301 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1302 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1305 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1306 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1308 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1309 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1310 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1312 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1313 for the build is renamed.
1315 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1316 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1317 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1319 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1320 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1321 result replacing the original.
1323 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1324 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1325 and the resources needed to be freed.
1327 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1329 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1332 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1333 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1334 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1335 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1337 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1338 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1340 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1341 newer versions of the scanner.
1343 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1344 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1345 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1346 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1347 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1348 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1349 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1351 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1352 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1353 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1354 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1355 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1356 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1357 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1358 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1359 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1360 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1362 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1363 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1365 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1367 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1368 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1370 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1371 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1373 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1374 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1375 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1377 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1378 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1379 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1380 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1382 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1383 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1386 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1387 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1389 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1390 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1391 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1392 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1393 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1395 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1396 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1399 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1400 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1402 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1405 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1406 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1407 "bare" representation.
1409 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1410 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1411 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1412 corrupted the output.
1418 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1419 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1420 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1421 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1423 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1424 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1426 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1427 This permits better logging.
1429 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1430 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1431 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1432 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1433 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1434 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1436 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1437 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1440 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1441 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1442 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1444 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1445 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1447 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1448 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1449 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1450 client, there is no benefit for these.
1451 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1452 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1453 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1456 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1457 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1459 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1460 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1461 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1463 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1464 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1466 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1467 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1468 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1469 signature and again for transmission.
1471 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1472 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1473 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1475 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1476 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1477 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1478 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1479 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1480 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1481 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1483 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1484 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1485 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1486 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1488 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1489 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1490 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1491 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1492 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1493 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1496 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1497 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1498 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1499 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1502 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1503 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1504 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1505 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1508 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1509 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1512 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1513 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1514 banner-time rejection.
1516 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1519 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1520 is the name of a transport.
1523 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1525 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1526 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1528 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1529 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1530 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1533 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1534 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1535 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1536 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1538 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1539 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1540 initial verify call returned a defer.
1542 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1543 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1545 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1546 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1548 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1549 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1551 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1552 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1554 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1555 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1558 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1559 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1561 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1562 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1563 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1565 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1566 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1567 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1568 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1570 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1571 and confused the parent.
1573 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1574 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1576 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1579 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1580 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1581 out-of-order delivery.
1583 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1584 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1585 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1588 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1589 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1592 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1593 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1594 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1596 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1597 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1598 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1599 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1600 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1601 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1603 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1604 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1605 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1607 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1608 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1609 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1611 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1612 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1613 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1614 though a different problem.
1620 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1621 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1623 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1625 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1626 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1628 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1629 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1631 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1632 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1633 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1634 before acknowledging the chunk.
1636 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1637 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1638 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1640 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1641 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1642 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1645 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1646 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1647 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1649 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1650 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1652 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1653 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1654 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1655 body hash calculated value.
1657 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1658 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1659 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1661 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1663 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1664 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1666 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1667 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1668 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1670 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1671 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1672 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1673 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1674 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1675 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1677 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1678 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1679 past that check, despite the cost.
1681 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1682 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1683 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1685 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1686 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1687 TLS library to consume.
1689 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1691 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1693 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1694 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1695 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1696 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1697 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1698 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1699 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1701 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1703 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1705 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1706 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1707 should be warning-free.
1709 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1711 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1712 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1714 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1715 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1716 general solution here.
1718 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1719 already-broken messages in the queue.
1721 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1723 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1729 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1730 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1732 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1733 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1734 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1736 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1737 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1738 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1739 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1740 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1741 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1742 if one fails this test.
1743 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1744 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1746 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1747 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1749 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1750 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1752 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1753 in rewrites and routers.
1755 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1756 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1758 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1759 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1761 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1763 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1766 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1767 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1768 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1769 connection after a verify cache hit.
1770 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1772 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1773 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1775 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1776 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1777 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1778 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1779 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1781 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1782 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1784 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1785 Previously they were not counted.
1787 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1788 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1789 that needed the lookup.
1791 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1792 distinguished as "(=".
1794 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1795 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1797 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1799 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1800 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1802 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1803 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1805 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1806 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1809 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1810 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1811 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1812 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1814 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1816 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1817 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1818 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1820 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1821 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1822 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1825 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1826 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1827 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1830 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1831 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1832 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1834 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1835 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1838 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1840 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1841 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1843 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1844 are not in the system include path.
1846 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1847 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1848 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1849 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1851 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1852 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1853 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1855 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1857 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1858 an incoming connection.
1860 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1863 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1864 fallback to "prime256v1".
1866 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1867 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1873 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1874 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1875 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1876 client dropping the TLS connection.
1878 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1879 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1881 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1882 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1883 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1884 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1887 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1888 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1889 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1890 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1891 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1892 check on the next write.
1894 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1895 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1896 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1897 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1898 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1900 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1901 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1903 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1904 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1905 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1907 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1908 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1909 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1910 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1912 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1913 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1915 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1916 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1918 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1919 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1920 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1923 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1925 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1927 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1929 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1930 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1932 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1933 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1935 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1937 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1938 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1940 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1942 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1943 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1945 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1947 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1948 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1949 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1950 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1951 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1952 they will retry in-clear.
1953 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1954 at installation time.
1956 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1957 with the $config_file variable.
1959 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1960 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1961 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1962 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1963 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1965 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1966 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1967 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1968 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1969 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1971 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1973 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1974 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1975 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1976 list order is no longer honoured.
1978 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1979 for DKIM processing.
1981 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1982 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1984 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1985 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1986 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1987 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1989 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1990 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1992 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1993 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1995 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1996 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1998 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2000 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2001 cached by the daemon.
2003 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2004 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2006 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2007 keys are given for lookup.
2009 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2010 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2011 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2012 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2014 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2015 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2016 server-side so match that on older versions.
2018 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2019 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2020 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2022 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2023 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2025 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2026 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2027 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2028 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2029 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2030 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2031 initial truncated version.
2033 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2035 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2037 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2038 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2040 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2042 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2044 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2045 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2048 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2049 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2052 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2053 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2055 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2056 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2059 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2060 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2061 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2063 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2064 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2065 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2066 extraction. Accept either.
2072 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2075 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2077 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2080 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2081 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2082 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2083 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2085 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2086 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2087 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2089 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2090 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2091 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2094 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2097 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2098 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2099 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2100 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2101 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2103 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2104 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2105 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2107 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2109 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2110 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2112 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2113 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2115 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2118 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2119 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2121 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2122 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2123 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2125 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2126 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2127 specify a port-range.
2129 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2130 timeout value per server.
2132 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2133 now have the list separator specified.
2135 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2138 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2141 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2143 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2144 rather than the verbs used.
2146 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2147 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2149 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2151 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2152 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2154 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2155 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2157 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2158 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2160 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2162 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2164 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2165 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2166 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2167 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2169 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2171 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2172 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2174 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2175 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2177 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2179 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2181 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2183 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2184 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2186 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2187 added for tls authenticator.
2189 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2195 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2196 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2197 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2198 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2199 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2200 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2201 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2203 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2204 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2205 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2206 function when detected.
2208 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2209 cause callback expansion.
2211 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2212 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2213 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2214 instead of bool when processing it.
2216 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2217 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2219 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2221 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2223 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2225 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2226 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2228 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2229 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2230 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2231 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2232 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2233 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2235 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2236 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2239 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2240 version 3.3.6 or later.
2242 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2243 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2244 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2245 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2246 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2247 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2250 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2251 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2253 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2254 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2255 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2258 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2259 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2260 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2262 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2263 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2265 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2266 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2269 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2271 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2272 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2274 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2275 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2278 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2280 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2283 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2284 output list separator was used.
2289 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2290 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2293 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2294 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2296 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2298 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2299 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2305 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2307 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2308 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2309 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2310 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2311 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2312 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2314 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2315 utilities have not been installed.
2317 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2318 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2320 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2321 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2323 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2324 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2325 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2326 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2328 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2330 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2331 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2333 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2336 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2338 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2339 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2340 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2342 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2343 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2344 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2345 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2346 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2347 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2349 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2351 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2352 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2354 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2357 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2359 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2361 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2362 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2364 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2365 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2367 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2369 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2371 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2372 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2374 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2375 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2376 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2378 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2379 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2380 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2383 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2385 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2386 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2389 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2390 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2393 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2394 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2396 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2397 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2399 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2401 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2402 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2403 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2405 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2406 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2408 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2409 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2412 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2413 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2414 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2416 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2418 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2419 Christian Aistleitner.
2421 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2423 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2424 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2426 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2427 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2429 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2430 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2432 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2433 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2435 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2436 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2438 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2439 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2440 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2442 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2444 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2445 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2448 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2450 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2451 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2458 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2460 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2461 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2463 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2466 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2467 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2470 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2472 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2473 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2474 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2475 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2476 using channel bindings instead).
2478 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2479 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2480 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2481 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2482 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2485 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2487 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2489 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2490 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2492 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2493 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2494 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2496 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2498 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2500 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2501 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2503 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2505 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2507 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2509 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2510 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2512 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2514 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2515 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2518 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2519 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2521 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2522 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2525 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2527 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2529 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2530 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2532 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2535 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2536 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2538 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2539 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2541 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2543 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2545 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2548 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2551 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2553 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2554 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2555 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2556 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2558 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2560 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2561 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2562 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2563 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2566 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2567 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2568 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2570 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2571 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2572 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2573 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2575 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2576 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2577 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2578 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2579 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2580 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2581 delivery, as in LMTP.
2583 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2584 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2586 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2588 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2592 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2593 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2594 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2595 username as equal to the username.
2597 This change corrects that bug.
2599 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2600 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2601 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2603 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2605 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2606 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2607 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2608 NULL dereference and crash.
2610 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2612 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2613 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2614 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2616 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2618 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2619 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2620 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2621 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2622 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2623 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2624 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2625 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2626 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2627 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2628 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2630 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2631 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2633 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2634 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2637 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2638 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2639 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2640 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2641 an empty string is now equivalent.
2643 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2644 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2645 not performing validation itself.
2647 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2648 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2650 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2653 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2655 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2656 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2657 other false fix of the same issue.
2658 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2661 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2662 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2664 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2665 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2666 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2668 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2669 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2670 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2672 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2674 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2676 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2677 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2679 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2682 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2683 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2684 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2685 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2686 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2688 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2689 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2691 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2692 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2695 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2696 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2697 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2698 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2700 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2702 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2703 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2704 from multiple comments on this bug.
2706 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2708 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2709 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2712 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2713 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2715 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2716 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2722 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2724 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2730 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2731 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2732 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2734 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2736 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2739 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2741 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2743 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2745 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2746 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2748 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2749 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2751 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2752 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2754 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2755 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2756 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2758 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2760 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2761 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2763 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2765 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2767 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2768 non-compliant senders.
2769 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2771 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2772 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2773 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2775 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2776 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2777 in spool file corruption.
2779 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2780 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2781 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2784 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2785 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2786 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2788 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2789 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2791 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2793 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2795 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2797 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2798 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2799 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2801 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2802 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2803 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2804 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2806 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2807 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2809 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2810 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2811 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2812 resolver implementation change.
2814 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2815 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2817 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2819 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2821 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2822 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2824 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2825 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2827 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2828 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2830 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2831 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2832 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2833 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2834 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2836 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2838 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2839 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2840 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2842 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2844 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2845 read-only, out of scope).
2846 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2848 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2849 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2850 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2851 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2853 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2855 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2856 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2857 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2858 real issues in debug logging.
2860 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2861 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2863 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2864 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2865 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2867 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2868 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2869 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2872 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2873 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2875 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2876 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2877 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2878 needs to override this, it can.
2880 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2881 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2882 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2884 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2885 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2886 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2887 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2889 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2895 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2896 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2898 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2900 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2903 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2904 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2906 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2907 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2908 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2910 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2911 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2912 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2913 not safe for signals.
2915 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2916 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2917 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2918 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2921 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2923 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2924 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2925 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2926 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2927 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2929 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2930 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2931 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2932 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2933 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2934 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2936 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2937 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2938 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2939 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2941 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2942 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2943 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2944 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2946 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2947 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2948 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2949 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2950 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2951 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2952 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2953 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2954 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2956 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2957 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2958 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2959 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2961 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2962 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2963 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2964 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2965 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2966 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2967 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2968 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2969 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2970 details in the main documentation.
2972 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2974 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2976 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2977 repository when doing development or release builds.
2979 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2980 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2982 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2983 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2986 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2988 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2989 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2991 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2992 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2994 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2995 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2997 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2998 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3000 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3001 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3003 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3005 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3008 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3009 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3010 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3012 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3014 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3016 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3017 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3023 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3025 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3026 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3028 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3030 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3032 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3035 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3036 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3038 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3039 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3041 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3042 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3044 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3047 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3048 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3050 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3051 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3052 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3053 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3055 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3056 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3062 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3065 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3066 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3067 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3069 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3070 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3072 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3073 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3074 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3076 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3077 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3079 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3080 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3082 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3083 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3085 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3086 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3088 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3089 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3091 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3094 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3095 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3097 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3098 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3100 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3101 SQL string expansion failure details.
3102 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3104 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3105 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3107 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3108 extern declarations in function scope.
3109 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3111 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3112 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3113 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3116 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3117 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3119 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3120 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3122 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3123 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3125 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3126 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3128 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3129 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3132 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3134 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3136 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3137 Patch by Simon Arlott
3139 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3140 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3146 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3147 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3149 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3150 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3152 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3154 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3155 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3156 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3158 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3159 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3160 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3162 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3163 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3164 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3165 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3167 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3168 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3169 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3170 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3172 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3173 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3174 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3177 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3180 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3181 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3182 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3183 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3184 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3190 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3191 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3192 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3194 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3195 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3197 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3199 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3201 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3203 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3205 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3207 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3208 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3209 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3210 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3212 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3213 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3214 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3215 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3216 more caution in buffer sizes.
3218 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3220 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3222 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3224 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3226 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3228 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3230 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3232 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3233 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3234 ignore trailing whitespace.
3236 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3238 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3241 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3242 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3244 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3245 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3246 Notification from John Horne.
3248 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3251 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3252 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3255 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3258 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3259 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3260 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3262 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3263 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3264 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3267 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3268 option (effectively making it always true).
3270 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3271 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3273 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3274 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3276 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3277 run-time user, instead of root.
3279 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3280 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3282 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3283 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3286 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3287 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3288 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3290 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3292 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3298 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3299 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3302 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3303 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3306 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3307 Patch from Alain Williams
3309 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3311 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3312 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3314 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3315 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3317 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3319 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3321 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3322 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3324 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3326 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3328 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3329 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3330 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3332 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3333 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3335 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3336 Patch by Simon Arlott
3338 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3339 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3345 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3347 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3349 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3351 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3353 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3359 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3360 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3362 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3363 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3366 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3367 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3368 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3370 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3371 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3373 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3374 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3375 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3376 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3378 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3379 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3380 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3382 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3384 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3386 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3387 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3389 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3391 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3392 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3393 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3394 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3396 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3397 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3399 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3401 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3403 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3404 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3406 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3407 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3409 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3410 that they are available at delivery time.
3412 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3414 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3415 incoming_port log selectors.
3417 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3418 setting expands to an empty string.
3420 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3421 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3423 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3424 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3426 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3427 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3429 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3430 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3432 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3433 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3435 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3436 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3438 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3440 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3441 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3443 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3444 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3446 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3448 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3449 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3451 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3453 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3455 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3458 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3459 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3461 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3462 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3464 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3465 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3467 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3468 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3470 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3471 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3473 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3474 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3476 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3477 plus update to original patch.
3479 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3481 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3482 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3484 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3486 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3488 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3490 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3492 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3493 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3495 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3496 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3498 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3499 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3501 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3502 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3504 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3506 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3508 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3510 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3516 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3517 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3518 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3520 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3521 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3522 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3523 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3524 build errors in sieve.c.
3526 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3527 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3528 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3530 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3532 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3534 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3536 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3542 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3544 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3545 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3546 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3547 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3548 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3549 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3550 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3551 for iplsearch lookups.
3553 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3554 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3555 previously such lookups could never work.
3557 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3558 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3559 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3561 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3564 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3565 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3566 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3567 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3568 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3569 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3571 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3572 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3574 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3575 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3576 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3577 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3578 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3579 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3581 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3584 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3586 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3587 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3590 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3591 by clients under certain conditions.
3593 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3594 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3596 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3598 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3599 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3601 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3603 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3605 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3607 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3608 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3610 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3612 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3613 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3615 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3617 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3619 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3620 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3621 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3622 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3624 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3625 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3626 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3628 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3629 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3631 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3633 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3635 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3637 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3638 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3639 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3645 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3646 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3649 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3650 issue a MAIL command.
3652 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3654 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3656 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3657 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3658 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3659 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3660 item. This has been fixed.
3662 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3663 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3665 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3666 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3668 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3669 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3670 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3672 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3674 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3675 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3676 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3677 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3678 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3680 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3681 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3682 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3684 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3685 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3686 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3687 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3689 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3691 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3693 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3694 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3695 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3696 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3697 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3699 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3701 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3702 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3703 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3706 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3708 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3710 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3712 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3714 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3716 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3717 no_callout_flush is set.
3719 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3720 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3721 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3724 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3726 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3727 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3728 other ACL rejections are.
3730 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3731 with slight modification.
3733 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3734 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3736 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3737 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3740 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3741 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3743 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3745 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3746 expansion side effects.
3748 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3749 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3750 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3753 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3754 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3755 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3757 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3758 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3759 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3760 were accidentally chopped off.
3762 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3763 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3764 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3765 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3766 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3767 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3768 pipelining has not been advertised.
3770 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3772 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3773 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3774 This has been fixed.
3776 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3777 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3778 reported on Solaris.
3780 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3781 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3782 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3783 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3784 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3785 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3786 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3788 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3791 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3793 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3795 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3796 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3797 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3798 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3799 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3800 criteria to be more general.
3802 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3803 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3804 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3805 host_all_ignored option.
3807 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3808 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3809 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3810 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3811 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3812 is what is supposed to happen).
3814 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3815 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3816 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3817 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3818 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3821 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3822 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3823 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3824 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3825 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3826 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3829 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3831 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3832 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3834 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3835 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3837 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3839 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3841 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3842 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3843 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3844 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3845 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3846 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3847 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3848 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3849 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3850 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3851 least in a lot of common cases.
3853 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3854 advertised in response to EHLO.
3860 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3861 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3863 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3864 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3866 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3867 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3868 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3870 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3871 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3872 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3873 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3874 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3880 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3881 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3884 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3885 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3886 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3888 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3889 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3890 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3891 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3892 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3893 rather than extend the field.
3899 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3900 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3901 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3902 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3905 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3906 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3907 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3909 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3910 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3911 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3913 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3914 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3915 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3918 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3919 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3920 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3921 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3922 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3923 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3924 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3925 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3926 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3927 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3928 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3930 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3933 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3934 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3935 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3936 ignores EPIPE as well.
3938 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3939 (quoted-printable decoding).
3941 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3942 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3944 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3946 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3948 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3950 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3951 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3953 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3956 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3957 miscellaneous code fixes
3959 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3962 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3963 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3964 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3965 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3966 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3967 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3968 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3969 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3971 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3972 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3973 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3974 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3976 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3977 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3978 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3979 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3980 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3981 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3982 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3983 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3984 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3986 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3989 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3990 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3991 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3992 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3993 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3994 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3995 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3996 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3998 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3999 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4002 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4003 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4004 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4005 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4006 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4007 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4008 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4009 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4010 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4011 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4012 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4013 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4014 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4016 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4017 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4018 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4019 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4020 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4021 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4022 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4024 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4025 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4026 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4027 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4028 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4029 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4030 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4031 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4032 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4033 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4035 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4036 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4037 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4038 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4039 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4041 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4042 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4043 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4044 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4045 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4046 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4047 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4049 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4050 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4051 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4052 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4053 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4054 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4057 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4058 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4059 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4062 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4063 if any retry times were supplied.
4065 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4066 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4067 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4069 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4071 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4073 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4074 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4075 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4076 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4077 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4078 before) are ignored.
4080 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4081 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4083 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4084 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4085 committing the later change.]
4087 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4088 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4089 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4090 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4091 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4092 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4093 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4094 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4095 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4097 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4098 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4099 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4100 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4101 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4102 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4103 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4104 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4105 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4107 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4108 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4109 hammering the server.
4111 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4112 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4114 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4116 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4117 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4118 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4120 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4121 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4122 one case where this was not true.
4124 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4125 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4126 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4127 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4130 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4131 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4132 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4133 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4134 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4135 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4136 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4137 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4138 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4141 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4142 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4143 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4144 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4146 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4147 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4149 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4150 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4151 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4153 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4155 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4157 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4159 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4160 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4161 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4162 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4164 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4165 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4167 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4168 be meaningful with "accept".
4170 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4171 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4173 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4174 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4175 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4177 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4178 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4179 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4180 there is data to show.
4181 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4183 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4184 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4185 as well as the number of messages.
4187 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4188 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4189 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4191 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4192 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4193 have a flag are now skipped.
4195 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4196 Added the -emptyok flag.
4198 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4199 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4201 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4202 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4203 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4205 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4208 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4209 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4211 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4213 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4214 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4216 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4218 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4219 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4220 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4221 contravention of the specifications.
4223 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4224 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4225 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4227 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4228 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4229 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4231 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4233 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4234 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4235 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4236 some point in the past.
4238 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4239 transport during callout processing was broken.
4241 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4242 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4244 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4245 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4247 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4248 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4250 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4256 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4257 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4259 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4260 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4261 there is data to show.
4262 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4264 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4265 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4267 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4268 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4270 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4271 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4273 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4274 submissions from trusted users.
4276 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4277 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4279 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4280 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4281 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4282 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4283 there is now a framework to start from.
4285 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4286 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4287 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4289 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4291 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4293 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4295 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4296 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4297 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4299 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4302 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4303 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4304 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4306 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4307 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4308 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4311 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4312 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4313 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4314 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4315 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4317 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4318 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4320 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4322 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4323 operations in malware.c.
4325 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4328 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4329 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4330 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4333 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4334 statements to "add_header".
4336 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4337 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4339 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4340 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4343 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4347 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4348 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4349 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4352 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4353 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4355 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4356 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4358 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4359 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4360 any possible encoding problems.
4362 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4363 but not after initializing Perl.
4365 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4366 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4367 apparently, which is not desirable.
4369 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4372 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4375 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4377 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4378 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4379 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4380 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4382 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4383 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4384 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4386 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4387 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4388 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4391 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4392 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4393 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4394 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4395 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4401 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4402 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4404 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4407 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4408 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4409 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4410 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4411 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4412 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4413 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4414 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4417 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4419 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4420 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4421 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4423 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4424 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4425 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4428 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4429 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4431 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4432 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4433 option (which defaults to 0600).
4435 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4437 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4438 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4439 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4440 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4441 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4442 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4443 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4445 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4451 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4452 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4453 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4454 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4455 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4456 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4459 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4460 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4462 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4464 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4465 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4466 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4467 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4468 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4471 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4472 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4474 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4475 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4476 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4477 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4478 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4480 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4481 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4482 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4483 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4485 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4486 be the same on different OS.
4488 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4491 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4492 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4494 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4497 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4498 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4499 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4500 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4501 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4502 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4505 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4506 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4507 when Exim was called.
4509 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4510 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4512 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4513 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4514 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4515 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4517 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4518 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4519 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4520 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4523 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4524 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4525 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4527 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4528 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4529 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4531 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4534 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4535 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4536 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4537 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4538 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4539 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4540 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4541 values from the SRV records were lost.
4543 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4544 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4545 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4547 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4548 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4549 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4551 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4552 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4553 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4554 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4555 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4556 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4557 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4558 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4559 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4560 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4562 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4563 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4564 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4566 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4567 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4569 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4570 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4571 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4572 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4575 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4576 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4577 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4579 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4580 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4581 PH/23 above applies.
4583 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4584 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4585 (for which there is an explicit test).
4587 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4589 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4590 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4591 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4592 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4593 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4595 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4596 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4597 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4598 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4600 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4601 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4602 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4604 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4606 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4608 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4609 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4610 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4612 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4613 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4614 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4615 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4616 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4618 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4619 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4620 the message gets confusing).
4622 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4623 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4624 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4625 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4627 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4628 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4629 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4630 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4633 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4634 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4635 the different processes.
4637 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4639 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4641 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4642 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4644 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4645 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4647 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4648 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4649 messages matching specified criteria.
4651 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4653 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4654 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4656 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4657 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4658 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4659 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4660 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4661 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4662 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4663 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4664 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4665 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4667 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4668 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4669 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4671 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4673 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4674 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4675 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4676 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4677 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4678 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4679 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4682 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4683 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4685 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4687 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4689 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4691 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4692 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4693 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4694 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4695 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4696 size of the count of files.
4698 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4700 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4703 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4704 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4705 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4706 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4708 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4709 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4710 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4712 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4713 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4714 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4715 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4716 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4718 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4719 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4721 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4722 will now be deprecated.
4724 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4726 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4727 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4728 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4730 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4731 with very large, slow to parse queues
4733 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4735 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4737 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4738 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4739 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4742 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4743 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4744 Sieve code now uses this.
4746 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4747 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4749 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4750 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4752 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4754 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4755 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4756 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4757 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4758 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4760 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4761 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4762 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4763 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4765 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4767 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4769 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4770 is preferred over IPv4.
4772 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4773 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4774 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4775 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4776 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4777 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4778 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4780 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4781 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4782 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4784 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4786 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4787 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4788 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4789 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4790 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4791 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4792 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4793 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4794 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4795 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4796 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4798 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4799 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4800 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4806 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4808 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4809 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4811 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4812 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4813 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4815 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4817 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4820 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4823 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4824 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4825 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4828 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4829 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4831 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4832 inside the third argument.
4834 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4835 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4838 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4839 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4841 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4842 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4844 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4846 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4847 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4850 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4852 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4853 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4854 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4855 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4856 identical. For example:
4858 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4860 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4861 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4862 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4864 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4865 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4866 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4867 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4869 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4870 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4871 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4874 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4876 o fixes some comments
4877 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4878 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4879 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4880 and documents the missing references header update
4884 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4885 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4888 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4889 Electronic Mail") by including:
4891 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4893 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4894 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4895 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4896 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4897 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4899 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4901 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4903 The auto-replied keyword:
4905 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4906 message by an automatic process,
4908 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4910 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4911 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4913 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4914 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4917 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4918 to the default Received: header definition.
4920 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4922 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4923 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4924 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4926 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4927 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4928 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4930 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4931 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4932 and treats the condition as false.
4934 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4936 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4937 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4938 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4939 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4940 not changing the active code.
4942 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4943 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4945 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4946 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4948 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4951 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4952 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4953 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4954 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4955 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4956 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4957 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4958 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4959 the text comparison.
4961 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4962 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4963 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4964 The same fix has been applied.
4970 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4971 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4974 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4975 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4977 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4979 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4980 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4981 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4982 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4983 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4985 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4986 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4987 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4988 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4991 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4999 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5000 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5002 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5004 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5006 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5007 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5008 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5010 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5011 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5012 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5014 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5015 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5018 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5019 ${stat: expansion item.
5021 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5022 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5024 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5025 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5028 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5030 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5033 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5034 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5036 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5038 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5039 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5040 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5041 the end of the subprocess.
5043 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5044 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5045 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5046 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5047 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5049 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5051 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5053 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5054 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5056 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5058 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5060 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5061 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5064 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5066 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5067 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5068 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5070 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5071 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5073 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5074 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5076 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5077 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5079 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5080 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5082 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5083 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5084 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5085 contributed by a Radius user.
5087 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5088 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5090 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5091 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5093 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5096 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5097 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5100 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5101 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5102 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5103 header lines when this was not necessary.
5105 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5107 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5108 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5109 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5112 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5115 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5116 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5117 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5118 return code was incorrect.
5120 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5122 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5124 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5126 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5128 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5129 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5130 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5131 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5132 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5135 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5137 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5138 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5139 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5140 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5141 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5142 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5143 which is clearly wrong.
5145 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5147 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5148 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5149 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5152 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5153 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5155 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5157 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5158 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5160 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5161 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5163 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5164 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5166 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5167 recipients, not senders.
5169 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5170 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5172 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5174 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5176 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5177 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5178 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5179 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5181 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5183 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5184 clock is set back in time.
5186 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5187 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5189 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5190 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5192 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5193 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5196 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5197 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5200 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5203 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5205 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5206 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5207 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5209 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5210 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5211 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5212 helo verification defer as a failure.
5214 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5215 actual error message.
5221 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5223 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5224 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5225 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5226 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5228 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5230 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5231 can still be requested.
5233 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5234 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5235 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5236 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5238 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5239 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5240 circumstances, but probably never did.
5242 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5243 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5244 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5247 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5249 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5250 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5252 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5254 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5256 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5257 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5258 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5259 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5260 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5261 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5263 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5264 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5265 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5266 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5267 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5268 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5270 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5271 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5273 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5274 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5276 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5277 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5279 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5281 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5283 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5285 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5287 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5289 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5291 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5293 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5294 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5295 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5297 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5298 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5299 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5300 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5302 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5303 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5304 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5306 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5307 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5308 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5309 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5311 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5312 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5315 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5316 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5317 should work with maildirs and everything.
5319 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5320 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5322 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5325 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5326 function for BDB 4.3.
5328 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5330 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5331 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5334 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5335 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5336 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5337 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5338 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5339 formatting function string_vformat().
5341 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5342 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5343 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5344 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5345 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5346 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5347 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5348 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5350 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5351 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5354 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5355 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5357 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5358 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5359 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5360 test. It is now used for both.
5362 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5363 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5364 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5365 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5366 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5367 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5369 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5370 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5371 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5374 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5375 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5376 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5378 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5379 experimental DomainKeys support:
5381 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5382 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5383 the control was given.
5385 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5387 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5389 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5391 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5392 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5393 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5396 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5397 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5398 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5399 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5400 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5401 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5404 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5405 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5406 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5407 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5408 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5409 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5411 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5412 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5413 do -d+all out of habit.
5415 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5416 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5419 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5420 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5421 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5422 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5423 record types that Exim uses.
5425 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5426 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5427 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5428 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5429 non-existent file that was broken.
5431 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5432 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5434 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5435 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5436 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5438 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5440 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5441 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5442 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5443 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5444 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5447 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5448 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5449 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5450 at a slight CPU cost.
5452 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5453 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5455 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5458 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5460 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5461 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5467 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5468 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5470 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5472 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5474 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5475 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5477 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5478 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5479 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5480 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5481 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5482 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5485 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5486 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5487 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5488 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5491 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5492 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5493 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5494 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5495 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5496 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5497 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5500 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5501 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5503 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5504 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5505 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5506 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5507 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5508 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5510 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5511 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5512 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5513 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5515 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5518 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5519 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5521 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5522 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5523 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5524 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5527 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5529 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5530 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5532 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5533 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5534 to what was transported.)
5536 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5538 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5539 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5540 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5541 spamd_address settings.
5543 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5544 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5545 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5546 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5547 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5549 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5551 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5552 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5553 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5554 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5555 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5557 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5558 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5560 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5561 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5562 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5563 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5564 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5565 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5566 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5569 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5570 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5571 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5572 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5573 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5574 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5575 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5578 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5580 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5581 driver and ACL definitions.
5583 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5584 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5586 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5587 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5588 understands it better than I do:
5590 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5591 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5593 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5594 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5595 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5596 => three warnings about OTP not working
5597 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5599 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5600 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5601 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5602 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5604 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5605 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5607 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5608 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5609 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5611 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5612 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5615 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5616 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5619 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5620 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5621 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5623 warn !verify = sender
5624 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5626 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5627 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5629 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5631 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5632 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5634 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5635 nomenclature these days.)
5637 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5638 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5640 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5641 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5642 . First host does not offer TLS;
5643 . First host accepts first address;
5644 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5645 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5646 . Second host accepts second address.
5647 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5648 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5651 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5652 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5653 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5654 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5655 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5657 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5658 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5660 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5661 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5663 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5664 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5665 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5667 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5668 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5671 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5673 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5674 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5675 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5676 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5677 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5678 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5679 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5681 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5682 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5683 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5684 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5685 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5687 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5688 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5691 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5692 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5693 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5694 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5695 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5696 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5698 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5700 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5701 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5702 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5703 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5704 printable escape sequences.
5706 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5707 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5710 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5711 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5714 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5715 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5716 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5717 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5718 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5720 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5721 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5722 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5724 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5726 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5727 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5730 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5731 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5732 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5733 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5734 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5735 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5736 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5737 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5738 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5741 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5742 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5743 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5744 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5748 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5749 ----------------------------------------
5751 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5752 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5753 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5754 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5755 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5756 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5759 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5760 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5761 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5762 historical information.
5768 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5770 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5771 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5773 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5774 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5777 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5778 filter fails to execute.
5780 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5781 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5782 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5783 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5784 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5786 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5788 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5789 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5790 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5791 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5793 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5794 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5795 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5796 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5797 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5799 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5801 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5803 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5804 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5805 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5806 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5808 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5809 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5810 sender verification.
5812 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5813 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5815 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5817 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5820 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5821 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5823 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5824 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5826 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5827 information about exactly what failed.
5829 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5831 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5832 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5833 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5835 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5836 It is now set to "smtps".
5838 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5839 ignore_target_hosts.
5841 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5842 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5843 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5844 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5847 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5848 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5849 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5851 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5852 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5853 wake it up if nothing else does.
5855 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5856 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5857 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5860 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5861 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5863 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5865 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5866 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5867 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5868 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5869 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5870 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5871 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5872 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5874 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5875 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5876 than one IP address.
5878 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5879 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5880 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5881 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5883 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5884 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5885 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5886 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5887 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5890 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5891 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5892 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5893 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5895 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5896 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5899 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5900 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5901 $sender_host_address.
5903 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5904 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5905 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5906 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5907 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5910 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5912 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5913 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5915 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5916 just the host names, not the priorities.
5918 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5919 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5920 controlled by a keyword.
5922 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5923 multiple records are returned.
5925 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5926 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5929 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5931 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5932 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5934 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5935 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5936 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5938 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5940 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5942 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5944 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5945 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5946 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5947 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5948 because the tests only now provoked it.
5950 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5951 (this can affect the format of dates).
5953 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5954 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5955 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5956 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5958 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5960 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5961 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5962 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5963 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5965 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5966 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5967 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5969 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5972 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5973 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5974 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5975 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5976 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5977 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5980 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5981 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5982 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5985 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5986 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5987 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5989 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5990 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5991 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5992 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5993 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5994 so I produce this patch..."
5996 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5997 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6000 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6001 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6002 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6003 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6006 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6008 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6009 long debug lines gets shown.
6011 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6012 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6014 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6016 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6017 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6018 of $primary_hostname.
6020 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6021 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6022 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6023 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6024 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6025 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6026 by change 4.50/55 above.
6028 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6029 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6030 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6031 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6032 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6033 running as the user.
6036 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6037 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6038 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6041 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6042 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6044 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6045 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6046 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6047 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6048 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6050 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6051 This has been fixed.
6053 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6054 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6055 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6056 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6059 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6061 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6062 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6063 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6064 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6066 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6067 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6069 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6070 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6071 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6073 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6074 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6075 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6078 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6079 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6080 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6082 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6083 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6084 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6085 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6087 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6088 during host lookups.
6090 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6091 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6093 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6095 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6096 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6097 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6098 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6099 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6102 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6103 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6105 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6106 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6107 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6109 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6111 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6112 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6113 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6114 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6115 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6116 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6119 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6120 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6121 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6122 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6123 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6125 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6128 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6130 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6131 "vacation" handling.
6133 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6134 OS variants using glibc.
6136 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6139 ----------------------------------------------------
6140 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6141 ----------------------------------------------------
6147 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6148 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6151 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6152 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6155 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6156 filter fails to execute.
6158 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6159 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6160 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6161 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6162 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6164 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6165 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6166 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6167 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6169 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6170 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6171 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6172 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6173 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6175 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6177 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6178 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6179 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6180 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6182 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6183 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6184 sender verification.
6186 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6187 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6189 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6190 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6192 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6193 ignore_target_hosts.
6195 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6196 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6197 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6198 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6201 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6202 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6203 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6205 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6206 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6207 wake it up if nothing else does.
6209 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6210 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6211 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6214 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6215 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6217 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6219 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6220 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6223 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6224 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6227 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6228 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6229 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6230 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6231 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6234 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6235 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6238 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6239 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6240 $sender_host_address.
6242 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6244 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6245 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6246 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6248 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6251 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6252 (this can affect the format of dates).
6254 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6255 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6256 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6257 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6259 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6260 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6261 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6263 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6264 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6265 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6266 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6268 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6269 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6270 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6272 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6275 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6276 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6277 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6278 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6279 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6280 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6283 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6284 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6285 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6286 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6289 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6290 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6291 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6292 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6293 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6294 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6295 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6297 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6298 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6299 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6300 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6301 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6302 running as the user.
6305 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6306 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6307 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6310 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6311 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6312 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6313 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6314 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6316 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6317 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6318 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6319 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6322 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6323 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6324 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6325 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6326 because the tests only now provoked it.
6332 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6333 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6334 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6335 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6336 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6337 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6338 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6340 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6341 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6344 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6346 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6348 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6349 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6352 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6353 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6354 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6355 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6356 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6358 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6359 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6361 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6363 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6365 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6368 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6369 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6371 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6372 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6373 affecting debugging statements).
6375 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6377 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6378 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6379 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6380 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6381 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6382 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6383 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6384 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6385 after the received time, and all would be well.
6387 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6388 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6389 condition in an expansion string.
6391 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6393 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6394 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6395 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6396 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6397 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6398 job under whatever limits there are.
6400 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6402 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6405 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6406 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6407 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6408 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6411 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6412 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6413 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6414 binary data in such strings.
6416 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6418 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6419 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6420 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6421 failure, which is pointless.
6423 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6425 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6427 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6428 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6429 Sender: header lines.
6431 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6432 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6433 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6435 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6436 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6437 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6438 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6439 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6442 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6443 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6444 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6445 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6446 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6448 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6449 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6450 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6453 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6454 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6456 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6457 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6459 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6461 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6463 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6465 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6468 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6470 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6472 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6473 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6474 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6475 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6477 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6478 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6484 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6485 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6486 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6488 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6489 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6490 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6491 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6492 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6493 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6495 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6496 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6497 verification failure".
6499 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6500 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6501 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6502 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6504 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6505 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6506 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6507 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6508 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6509 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6510 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6511 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6512 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6513 treated as a timeout.
6515 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6516 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6517 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6518 not set for Exim filters).
6520 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6521 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6522 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6524 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6526 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6527 try to make them clearer.
6529 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6530 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6532 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6534 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6536 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6537 only the Cygwin environment.
6539 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6540 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6541 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6542 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6543 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6545 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6546 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6547 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6548 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6549 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6550 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6551 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6553 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6554 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6556 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6558 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6559 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6560 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6562 To: susanne@some.where
6564 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6565 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6566 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6567 of addresses in From: header lines).
6569 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6570 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6571 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6573 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6574 treated as non-personal.
6576 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6577 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6579 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6581 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6583 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6584 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6585 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6587 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6588 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6590 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6591 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6592 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6593 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6594 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6595 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6597 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6598 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6599 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6600 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6601 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6602 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6603 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6604 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6606 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6608 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6609 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6611 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6612 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6613 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6615 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6616 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6618 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6619 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6620 rather than long int.
6622 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6624 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6630 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6631 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6632 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6633 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6634 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6635 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6641 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6642 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6644 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6645 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6646 socklen_t is defined.
6648 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6651 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6654 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6655 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6656 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6657 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6658 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6660 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6661 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6662 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6663 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6665 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6666 of flapping under certain conditions.
6668 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6669 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6670 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6672 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6674 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6676 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6677 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6678 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6679 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6681 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6682 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6683 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6684 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6685 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6686 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6687 preserved with the message after it was received.
6689 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6690 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6691 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6692 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6693 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6694 test suite worked just fine.
6696 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6697 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6698 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6700 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6701 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6704 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6705 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6706 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6707 does not fully solve it.
6709 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6710 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6711 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6712 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6713 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6715 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6716 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6717 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6719 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6720 string, for example:
6722 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6724 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6725 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6726 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6727 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6728 the routers could not see them.
6730 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6731 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6733 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6734 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6737 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6738 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6739 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6740 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6741 that needed quoting.
6743 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6744 was not being matched caselessly.
6746 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6749 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6750 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6751 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6752 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6753 when use_sender is false.
6755 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6757 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6759 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6761 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6762 the configuration file.
6764 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6765 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6767 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6769 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6770 bytes in the message body.
6772 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6773 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6776 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6778 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6780 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6781 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6782 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6783 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6790 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6791 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6793 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6794 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6795 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6796 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6797 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6799 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6800 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6802 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6803 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6804 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6806 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6807 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6808 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6810 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6813 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6814 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6815 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6816 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6817 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6818 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6819 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6825 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6826 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6827 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6828 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6829 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6830 default (and expected) setting.
6832 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6833 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6834 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6835 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6837 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6838 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6840 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6843 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6844 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6845 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6846 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6847 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6848 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6850 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6851 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6852 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6854 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6855 part (NOT match_host).
6857 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6859 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6860 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6861 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6862 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6863 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6864 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6865 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6866 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6867 the same named file.
6869 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6870 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6873 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6874 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6875 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6876 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6879 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6880 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6881 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6883 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6885 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6887 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6889 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6890 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6892 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6893 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6894 before starting the TLS session.
6896 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6898 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6899 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6901 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6902 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6903 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6904 colon in the middle).
6910 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6911 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6912 multiple configurations are in use.
6914 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6915 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6916 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6917 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6918 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6919 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6921 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6922 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6924 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6925 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6926 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6928 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6929 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6932 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6933 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6935 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6937 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6938 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6940 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6948 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6949 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6950 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6951 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6952 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6954 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6957 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6958 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6959 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6960 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6961 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6962 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6964 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6965 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6966 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6967 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6968 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6969 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6970 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6973 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6974 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6975 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6976 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6977 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6979 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6981 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6982 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6983 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6985 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6987 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6988 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6989 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6992 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6993 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6995 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6996 Three changes have been made:
6998 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6999 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7000 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7001 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7002 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7004 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7007 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7008 the modified behaviour.
7014 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7017 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7018 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7020 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7021 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7022 try to track down a specific problem.
7024 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7025 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7026 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7028 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7031 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7032 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7033 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7034 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7035 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7036 some earlier ones do not.
7038 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7040 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7041 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7042 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7043 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7044 address literals are enabled, of course).
7046 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7048 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7049 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7050 by a command such as
7054 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7056 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7058 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7059 remained set. It is now erased.
7061 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7062 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7064 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7065 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7066 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7067 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7068 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7069 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7070 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7071 appropriate error code.
7073 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7074 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7075 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7076 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7077 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7078 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7080 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7081 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7082 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7084 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7085 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7086 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7087 terminate the header.
7089 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7090 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7091 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7093 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7094 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7095 (4.30/29). In particular:
7097 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7100 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7101 to write a maildirsize file.
7103 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7104 the transport, the new value overrides.
7106 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7109 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7110 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7111 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7114 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7115 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7116 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7119 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7120 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7121 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7123 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7124 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7127 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7128 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7129 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7131 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7133 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7135 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7137 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7138 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7141 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7142 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7143 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7144 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7145 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7146 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7147 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7150 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7151 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7152 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7153 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7154 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7157 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7158 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7159 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7160 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7161 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7162 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7163 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7164 cached value only when the same options are set.
7166 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7168 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7169 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7170 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7171 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7172 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7174 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7175 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7176 it is clearly obsolete.
7178 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7181 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7182 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7183 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7186 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7187 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7188 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7189 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7190 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7192 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7193 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7194 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7195 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7197 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7199 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7201 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7202 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7205 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7206 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7207 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7208 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7209 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7210 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7213 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7214 with the -f command-line option.
7216 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7217 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7218 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7219 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7220 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7221 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7223 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7224 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7227 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7228 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7229 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7230 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7231 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7232 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7233 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7234 buffer is too small.
7236 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7237 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7239 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7240 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7241 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7242 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7243 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7244 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7245 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7246 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7247 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7249 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7250 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7251 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7253 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7254 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7257 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7258 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7259 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7260 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7261 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7263 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7264 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7265 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7266 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7269 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7271 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7273 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7274 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7276 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7277 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7278 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7280 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7281 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7282 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7283 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7284 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7286 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7287 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7288 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7289 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7290 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7291 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7292 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7294 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7295 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7296 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7297 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7298 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7299 the test of how many are available.
7301 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7302 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7303 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7304 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7305 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7306 new message is started.
7308 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7309 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7311 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7312 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7314 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7315 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7316 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7319 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7320 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7321 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7322 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7323 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7324 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7325 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7327 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7328 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7329 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7330 interpreted as octal.
7332 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7335 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7336 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7337 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7338 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7339 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7340 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7342 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7343 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7344 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7345 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7347 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7348 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7349 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7350 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7352 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7353 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7356 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7357 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7359 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7361 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7362 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7363 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7364 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7366 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7367 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7368 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7369 supplied", which is not helpful.
7371 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7372 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7373 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7375 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7376 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7377 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7378 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7379 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7380 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7381 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7382 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7384 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7385 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7386 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7387 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7388 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7390 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7391 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7392 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7393 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7394 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7395 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7397 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7398 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7399 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7401 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7403 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7404 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7405 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7408 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7410 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7411 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7412 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7413 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7414 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7415 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7416 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7417 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7419 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7420 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7421 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7422 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7423 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7425 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7428 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7429 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7430 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7431 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7432 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7433 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7434 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7435 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7436 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7442 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7443 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7444 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7446 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7449 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7450 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7451 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7453 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7454 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7455 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7456 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7457 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7458 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7460 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7461 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7462 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7463 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7464 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7465 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7466 the Exim test suite.
7468 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7469 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7470 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7471 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7473 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7474 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7475 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7476 specify it in this variable.
7478 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7479 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7480 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7481 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7483 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7484 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7485 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7486 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7488 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7489 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7490 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7491 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7492 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7494 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7496 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7499 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7500 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7501 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7502 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7503 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7505 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7506 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7508 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7509 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7510 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7511 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7512 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7514 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7515 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7517 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7518 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7519 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7521 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7522 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7524 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7525 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7527 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7528 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7529 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7531 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7532 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7534 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7535 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7536 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7537 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7539 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7541 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7542 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7543 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7544 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7546 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7548 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7549 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7551 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7553 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7554 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7555 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7556 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7557 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7558 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7560 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7562 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7563 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7566 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7568 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7569 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7571 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7572 550 Sender verify failed
7574 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7575 the final line of the response.
7577 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7578 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7579 all other user lookups.
7581 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7584 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7585 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7586 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7587 result into an int without checking.
7589 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7590 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7591 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7593 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7594 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7595 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7596 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7598 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7601 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7602 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7604 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7605 to the empty sender.
7607 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7608 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7609 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7610 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7611 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7612 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7613 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7616 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7617 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7618 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7619 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7622 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7623 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7625 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7628 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7629 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7631 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7633 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7634 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7637 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7638 as soon as it is encountered.
7640 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7642 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7645 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7646 recognizes a tab character.
7648 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7649 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7650 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7651 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7653 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7655 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7658 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7660 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7662 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7663 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7666 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7667 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7668 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7669 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7670 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7672 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7673 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7675 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7676 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7677 list (.included file names were always shown).
7679 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7680 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7681 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7684 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7685 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7687 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7689 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7691 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7693 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7694 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7695 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7696 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7697 failures to open the logs.
7699 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7700 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7701 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7702 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7703 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7704 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7705 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7711 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7712 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7713 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7716 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7717 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7718 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7720 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7721 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7722 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7724 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7725 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7726 causing some misleading effects.
7728 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7729 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7730 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7732 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7733 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7734 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7735 queue-runner function directly.
7741 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7744 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7745 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7746 was always written to the default place.
7748 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7749 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7750 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7752 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7754 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7756 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7757 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7758 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7760 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7761 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7764 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7765 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7766 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7768 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7769 command line option is disabled.
7771 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7772 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7774 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7776 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7778 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7779 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7781 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7783 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7784 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7785 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7786 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7787 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7788 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7790 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7791 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7794 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7795 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7797 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7798 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7800 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7801 received was valid base64.
7803 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7804 name of the variable that was being set.
7806 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7808 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7809 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7810 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7811 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7812 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7813 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7815 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7817 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7818 nor realm was specified.
7820 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7821 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7822 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7823 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7825 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7826 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7827 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7829 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7830 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7831 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7833 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7834 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7835 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7836 some systems use these upper case variants.
7838 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7839 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7840 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7841 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7843 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7845 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7846 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7848 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7849 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7852 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7854 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7855 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7856 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7857 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7859 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7862 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7863 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7864 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7866 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7867 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7869 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7870 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7871 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7872 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7874 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7875 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7876 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7878 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7880 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7881 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7882 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7883 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7886 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7887 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7888 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7890 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7892 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7893 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7895 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7896 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7898 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7899 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7900 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7901 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7902 when emails are that large.
7909 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7910 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7912 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7913 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7914 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7916 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7917 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7918 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7920 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7921 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7922 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7923 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7924 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7926 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7927 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7928 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7929 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7930 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7933 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7934 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7935 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7936 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7937 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7938 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7939 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7940 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7941 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7942 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7943 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7944 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7945 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7946 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7948 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7949 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7952 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7953 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7954 error should be diagnosed.
7956 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7957 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7958 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7959 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7960 appeared instead of "NULL".
7962 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7963 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7964 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7965 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7966 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7967 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7970 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7971 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7972 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7978 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7979 or receiver verification errors.
7981 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7984 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7985 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7986 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7987 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7989 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7990 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7991 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7992 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7993 shouldn't happen again.
7995 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7996 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7997 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7999 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8000 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8002 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8004 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8005 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8007 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8008 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8011 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8012 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8013 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8015 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8016 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8017 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8018 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8020 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8021 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8022 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8023 to define what should happen).
8025 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8026 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8027 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8029 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8031 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8033 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8034 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8036 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8037 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8038 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8039 structure in all cases.
8041 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8042 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8043 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8044 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8046 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8047 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8050 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8051 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8053 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8054 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8056 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8057 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8058 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8060 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8061 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8062 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8064 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8065 the book and for uniformity.
8067 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8069 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8070 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8071 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8072 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8073 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8074 non-existent command as the problem.
8076 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8077 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8078 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8080 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8082 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8083 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8084 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8086 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8087 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8088 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8089 timestamps using strftime().
8091 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8092 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8094 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8095 transport-time rewrites.
8097 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8098 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8099 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8100 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8102 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8103 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8105 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8106 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8107 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8108 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8111 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8112 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8113 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8114 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8115 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8116 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8117 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8119 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8120 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8121 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8122 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8123 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8125 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8126 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8127 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8128 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8129 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8130 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8131 remaining text gets split now.
8133 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8134 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8135 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8136 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8138 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8139 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8140 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8141 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8144 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8145 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8146 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8147 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8148 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8149 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8150 passed through if needed.
8152 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8153 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8154 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8155 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8156 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8157 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8159 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8160 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8161 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8162 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8163 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8165 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8166 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8167 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8168 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8169 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8171 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8172 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8175 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8176 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8177 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8178 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8179 mayhem of various kinds.
8181 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8182 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8183 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8184 the right test for positive values.
8186 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8187 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8188 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8189 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8190 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8191 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8192 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8193 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8194 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8195 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8198 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8201 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8202 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8205 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8206 the existing equality matching.
8208 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8209 dealing with inode numbers.
8211 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8212 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8213 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8215 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8216 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8217 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8218 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8221 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8222 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8223 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8224 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8225 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8226 relay addresses has also been removed.
8228 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8230 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8231 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8232 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8234 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8235 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8236 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8237 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8238 processing applies to CR:
8240 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8241 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8243 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8244 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8245 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8246 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8248 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8249 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8250 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8252 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8253 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8254 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8255 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8256 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8257 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8260 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8263 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8264 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8265 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8266 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8269 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8271 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8273 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8275 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8276 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8277 not considered personal.
8279 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8281 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8283 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8285 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8286 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8287 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8288 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8289 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8290 header lines, and spool format errors.
8292 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8293 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8294 for more flexibility.
8296 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8297 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8298 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8300 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8303 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8304 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8305 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8306 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8307 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8308 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8309 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8310 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8311 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8313 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8314 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8315 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8316 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8317 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8318 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8319 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8321 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8322 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8323 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8325 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8326 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8327 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8328 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8329 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8330 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8331 instead of killing the process with assert().
8333 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8334 than Unicode encoding.
8336 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8337 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8338 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8339 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8341 77. Added process_log_path.
8343 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8344 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8346 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8347 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8349 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8350 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8351 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8353 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8354 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8355 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8356 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8357 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8360 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8361 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8364 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8365 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8366 they will be used during message reception.
8372 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.