1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
280 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
281 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
282 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
284 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
286 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
287 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
290 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
291 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
292 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
294 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
296 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
298 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
299 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
300 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
302 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
303 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
304 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
306 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
307 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
309 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
310 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
313 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
314 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
315 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
316 should both provide the file and set the option.
317 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
319 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
320 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
322 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
323 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
324 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
325 Authentication-Results: header.
327 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
328 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
329 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
330 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
332 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
333 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
334 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
335 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
336 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
337 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
338 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
340 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
341 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
342 copies while it is still usable.
344 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
345 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
346 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
348 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
349 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
351 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
352 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
353 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
354 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
356 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
357 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
358 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
361 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
362 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
363 - the pipe transport command
364 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
365 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
367 - paths used by single-key lookups
368 Previously this was permitted.
370 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
371 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
372 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
373 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
375 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
376 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
377 support larger malloc requests.
379 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
380 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
381 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
382 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
384 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
385 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
386 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
387 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
390 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
391 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
392 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
393 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
394 data being length-specified.
396 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
397 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
398 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
399 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
401 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
402 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
403 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
404 not being properly tracked.
406 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
407 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
408 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
409 minute could be seen.
411 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
412 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
413 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
415 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
416 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
418 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
419 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
422 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
424 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
425 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
427 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
428 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
429 filesystem as sufficient validation.
431 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
432 argument is supplied.
434 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
435 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
436 access under Exim's current working directory.
438 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
439 Previously no event was raised.
441 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
442 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
443 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
446 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
447 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
448 the size of the signature hash.
450 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
451 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
453 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
454 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
455 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
456 dropped between messages.
458 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
459 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
460 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
461 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
463 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
464 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
465 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
466 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
467 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
468 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
469 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
470 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
471 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
473 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
474 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
475 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
477 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
478 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
485 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
486 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
488 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
489 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
492 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
495 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
497 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
499 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
500 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
502 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
503 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
504 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
505 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
506 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
507 suitably configured).
509 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
510 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
512 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
513 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
516 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
517 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
519 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
520 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
521 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
522 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
525 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
526 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
527 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
529 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
532 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
533 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
535 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
536 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
537 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
538 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
541 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
542 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
543 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
544 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
547 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
548 shared (NFS) environment.
550 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
551 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
554 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
555 on some platforms for bit 31.
557 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
558 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
559 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
560 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
561 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
562 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
563 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
564 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
566 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
568 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
569 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
571 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
572 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
575 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
576 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
579 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
580 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
581 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
584 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
585 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
586 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
588 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
589 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
590 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
591 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
592 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
594 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
597 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
598 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
599 be requested on all coneections.
601 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
602 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
604 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
606 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
607 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
608 one for these; the option was ignored.
610 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
611 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
612 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
613 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
615 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
616 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
617 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
620 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
621 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
622 error ignored was made.
624 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
626 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
627 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
628 values, to catch one form of exploit.
630 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
631 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
632 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
634 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
635 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
638 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
639 them in our smtp response.
641 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
642 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
643 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
644 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
645 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
647 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
648 link count into consideration.
650 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
651 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
653 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
654 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
655 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
658 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
660 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
662 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
664 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
665 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
666 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
667 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
669 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
671 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
672 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
675 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
676 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
677 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
679 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
680 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
681 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
683 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
684 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
685 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
686 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
687 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
688 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
689 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
690 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
692 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
693 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
694 resulted in an indefinite loop.
696 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
697 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
698 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
704 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
705 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
707 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
708 non-signal-safe functions being used.
710 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
711 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
712 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
714 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
715 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
716 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
718 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
719 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
720 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
721 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
722 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
725 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
726 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
728 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
729 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
730 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
731 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
732 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
733 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
734 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
736 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
737 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
739 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
742 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
743 Previously this would segfault.
745 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
748 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
749 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
750 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
751 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
752 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
753 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
755 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
757 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
758 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
759 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
760 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
762 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
764 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
765 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
766 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
767 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
769 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
771 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
773 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
774 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
775 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
777 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
778 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
779 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
781 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
783 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
784 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
785 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
786 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
788 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
789 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
790 promised '?' replacement.
792 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
794 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
795 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
796 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
797 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
798 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
800 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
801 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
802 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
804 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
805 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
806 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
808 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
809 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
810 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
812 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
813 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
814 hope that is portable enough.
816 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
817 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
818 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
819 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
821 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
822 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
823 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
825 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
826 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
827 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
828 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
830 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
831 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
833 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
834 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
835 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
836 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
838 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
839 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
840 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
842 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
843 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
844 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
845 the previous G, M, k.
847 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
848 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
851 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
852 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
853 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
854 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
856 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
857 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
859 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
860 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
861 off past the nul-terimation.
863 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
864 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
865 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
866 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
867 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
869 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
871 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
872 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
873 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
876 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
877 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
879 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
880 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
881 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
883 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
884 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
885 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
887 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
888 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
894 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
895 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
896 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
897 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
898 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
899 be defined in redis_servers.
901 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
902 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
904 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
905 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
906 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
907 extant use locations.
909 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
910 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
912 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
913 Previously only the last row was returned.
915 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
916 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
917 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
918 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
921 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
922 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
923 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
924 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
925 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
926 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
927 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
928 Main pool for expansions.
929 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
930 active in the testsuite.
931 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
933 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
934 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
935 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
936 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
939 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
940 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
943 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
944 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
945 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
947 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
948 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
949 ClamAV interface method is removed.
951 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
952 rows affected is given instead).
954 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
955 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
957 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
958 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
959 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
960 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
961 for all multi-message initiating connections.
963 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
964 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
965 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
967 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
968 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
969 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
970 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
973 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
974 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
975 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
978 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
980 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
981 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
983 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
984 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
985 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
987 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
988 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
989 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
992 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
993 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
995 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
996 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
997 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
999 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1000 for the build is renamed.
1002 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1003 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1004 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1006 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1007 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1008 result replacing the original.
1010 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1011 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1012 and the resources needed to be freed.
1014 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1016 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1019 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1020 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1021 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1022 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1024 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1025 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1027 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1028 newer versions of the scanner.
1030 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1031 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1032 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1033 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1034 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1035 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1036 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1038 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1039 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1040 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1041 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1042 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1043 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1044 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1045 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1046 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1047 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1049 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1050 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1052 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1054 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1055 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1057 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1058 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1060 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1061 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1062 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1064 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1065 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1066 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1067 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1069 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1070 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1073 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1074 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1076 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1077 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1078 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1079 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1080 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1082 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1083 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1086 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1087 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1089 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1092 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1093 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1094 "bare" representation.
1096 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1097 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1098 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1099 corrupted the output.
1105 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1106 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1107 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1108 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1110 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1111 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1113 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1114 This permits better logging.
1116 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1117 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1118 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1119 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1120 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1121 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1123 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1124 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1127 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1128 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1129 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1131 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1132 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1134 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1135 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1136 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1137 client, there is no benefit for these.
1138 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1139 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1140 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1143 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1144 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1146 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1147 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1148 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1150 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1151 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1153 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1154 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1155 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1156 signature and again for transmission.
1158 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1159 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1160 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1162 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1163 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1164 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1165 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1166 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1167 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1168 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1170 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1171 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1172 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1173 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1175 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1176 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1177 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1178 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1179 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1180 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1183 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1184 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1185 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1186 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1189 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1190 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1191 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1192 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1195 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1196 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1199 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1200 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1201 banner-time rejection.
1203 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1206 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1207 is the name of a transport.
1210 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1212 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1213 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1215 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1216 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1217 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1220 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1221 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1222 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1223 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1225 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1226 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1227 initial verify call returned a defer.
1229 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1230 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1232 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1233 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1235 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1236 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1238 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1239 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1241 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1242 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1245 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1246 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1248 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1249 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1250 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1252 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1253 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1254 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1255 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1257 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1258 and confused the parent.
1260 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1261 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1263 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1266 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1267 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1268 out-of-order delivery.
1270 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1271 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1272 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1275 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1276 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1279 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1280 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1281 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1283 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1284 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1285 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1286 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1287 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1288 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1290 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1291 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1292 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1294 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1295 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1296 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1298 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1299 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1300 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1301 though a different problem.
1307 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1308 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1310 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1312 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1313 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1315 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1316 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1318 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1319 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1320 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1321 before acknowledging the chunk.
1323 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1324 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1325 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1327 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1328 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1329 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1332 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1333 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1334 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1336 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1337 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1339 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1340 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1341 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1342 body hash calculated value.
1344 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1345 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1346 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1348 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1350 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1351 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1353 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1354 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1355 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1357 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1358 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1359 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1360 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1361 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1362 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1364 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1365 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1366 past that check, despite the cost.
1368 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1369 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1370 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1372 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1373 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1374 TLS library to consume.
1376 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1378 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1380 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1381 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1382 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1383 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1384 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1385 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1386 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1388 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1390 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1392 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1393 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1394 should be warning-free.
1396 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1398 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1399 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1401 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1402 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1403 general solution here.
1405 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1406 already-broken messages in the queue.
1408 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1410 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1416 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1417 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1419 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1420 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1421 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1423 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1424 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1425 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1426 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1427 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1428 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1429 if one fails this test.
1430 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1431 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1433 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1434 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1436 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1437 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1439 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1440 in rewrites and routers.
1442 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1443 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1445 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1446 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1448 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1450 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1453 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1454 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1455 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1456 connection after a verify cache hit.
1457 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1459 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1460 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1462 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1463 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1464 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1465 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1466 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1468 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1469 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1471 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1472 Previously they were not counted.
1474 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1475 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1476 that needed the lookup.
1478 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1479 distinguished as "(=".
1481 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1482 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1484 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1486 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1487 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1489 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1490 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1492 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1493 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1496 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1497 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1498 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1499 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1501 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1503 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1504 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1505 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1507 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1508 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1509 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1512 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1513 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1514 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1517 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1518 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1519 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1521 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1522 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1525 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1527 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1528 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1530 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1531 are not in the system include path.
1533 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1534 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1535 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1536 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1538 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1539 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1540 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1542 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1544 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1545 an incoming connection.
1547 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1550 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1551 fallback to "prime256v1".
1553 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1554 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1560 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1561 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1562 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1563 client dropping the TLS connection.
1565 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1566 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1568 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1569 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1570 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1571 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1574 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1575 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1576 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1577 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1578 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1579 check on the next write.
1581 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1582 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1583 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1584 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1585 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1587 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1588 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1590 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1591 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1592 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1594 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1595 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1596 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1597 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1599 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1600 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1602 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1603 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1605 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1606 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1607 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1610 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1612 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1614 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1616 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1617 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1619 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1620 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1622 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1624 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1625 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1627 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1629 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1630 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1632 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1634 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1635 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1636 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1637 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1638 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1639 they will retry in-clear.
1640 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1641 at installation time.
1643 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1644 with the $config_file variable.
1646 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1647 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1648 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1649 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1650 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1652 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1653 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1654 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1655 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1656 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1658 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1660 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1661 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1662 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1663 list order is no longer honoured.
1665 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1666 for DKIM processing.
1668 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1669 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1671 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1672 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1673 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1674 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1676 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1677 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1679 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1680 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1682 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1683 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1685 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1687 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1688 cached by the daemon.
1690 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1691 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1693 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1694 keys are given for lookup.
1696 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1697 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1698 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1699 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1701 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1702 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1703 server-side so match that on older versions.
1705 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1706 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1707 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1709 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1710 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1712 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1713 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1714 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1715 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1716 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1717 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1718 initial truncated version.
1720 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1722 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1724 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1725 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1727 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1729 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1731 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1732 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1735 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1736 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1739 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1740 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1742 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1743 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1746 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1747 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1748 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1750 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1751 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1752 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1753 extraction. Accept either.
1759 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1762 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1764 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1767 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1768 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1769 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1770 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1772 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1773 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1774 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1776 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1777 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1778 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1781 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1784 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1785 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1786 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1787 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1788 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1790 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1791 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1792 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1794 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1796 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1797 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1799 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1800 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1802 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1805 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1806 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1808 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1809 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1810 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1812 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1813 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1814 specify a port-range.
1816 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1817 timeout value per server.
1819 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1820 now have the list separator specified.
1822 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1825 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1828 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1830 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1831 rather than the verbs used.
1833 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1834 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1836 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1838 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1839 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1841 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1842 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1844 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1845 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1847 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1849 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1851 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1852 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1853 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1854 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1856 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1858 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1859 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1861 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1862 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1864 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1866 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1868 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1870 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1871 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1873 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1874 added for tls authenticator.
1876 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1882 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1883 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1884 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1885 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1886 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1887 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1888 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1890 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1891 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1892 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1893 function when detected.
1895 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1896 cause callback expansion.
1898 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1899 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1900 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1901 instead of bool when processing it.
1903 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1904 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1906 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1908 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1910 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1912 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1913 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1915 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1916 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1917 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1918 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1919 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1920 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1922 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1923 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1926 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1927 version 3.3.6 or later.
1929 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1930 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1931 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1932 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1933 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1934 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1937 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1938 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1940 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1941 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1942 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1945 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1946 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1947 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1949 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1950 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1952 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1953 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1956 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1958 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1959 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1961 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1962 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1965 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1967 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1970 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1971 output list separator was used.
1976 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1977 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1980 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1981 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1983 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1985 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1986 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1992 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1994 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1995 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1996 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1997 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1998 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1999 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2001 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2002 utilities have not been installed.
2004 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2005 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2007 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2008 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2010 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2011 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2012 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2013 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2015 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2017 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2018 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2020 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2023 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2025 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2026 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2027 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2029 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2030 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2031 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2032 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2033 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2034 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2036 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2038 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2039 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2041 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2044 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2046 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2048 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2049 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2051 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2052 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2054 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2056 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2058 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2059 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2061 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2062 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2063 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2065 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2066 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2067 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2070 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2072 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2073 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2076 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2077 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2080 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2081 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2083 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2084 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2086 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2088 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2089 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2090 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2092 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2093 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2095 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2096 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2099 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2100 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2101 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2103 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2105 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2106 Christian Aistleitner.
2108 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2110 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2111 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2113 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2114 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2116 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2117 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2119 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2120 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2122 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2123 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2125 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2126 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2127 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2129 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2131 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2132 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2135 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2137 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2138 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2145 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2147 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2148 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2150 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2153 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2154 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2157 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2159 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2160 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2161 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2162 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2163 using channel bindings instead).
2165 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2166 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2167 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2168 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2169 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2172 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2174 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2176 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2177 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2179 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2180 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2181 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2183 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2185 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2187 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2188 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2190 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2192 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2194 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2196 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2197 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2199 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2201 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2202 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2205 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2206 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2208 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2209 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2212 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2214 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2216 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2217 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2219 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2222 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2223 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2225 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2226 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2228 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2230 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2232 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2235 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2238 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2240 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2241 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2242 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2243 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2245 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2247 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2248 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2249 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2250 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2253 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2254 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2255 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2257 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2258 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2259 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2260 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2262 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2263 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2264 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2265 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2266 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2267 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2268 delivery, as in LMTP.
2270 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2271 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2273 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2275 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2279 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2280 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2281 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2282 username as equal to the username.
2284 This change corrects that bug.
2286 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2287 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2288 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2290 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2292 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2293 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2294 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2295 NULL dereference and crash.
2297 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2299 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2300 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2301 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2303 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2305 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2306 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2307 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2308 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2309 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2310 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2311 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2312 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2313 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2314 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2315 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2317 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2318 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2320 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2321 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2324 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2325 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2326 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2327 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2328 an empty string is now equivalent.
2330 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2331 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2332 not performing validation itself.
2334 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2335 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2337 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2340 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2342 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2343 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2344 other false fix of the same issue.
2345 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2348 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2349 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2351 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2352 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2353 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2355 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2356 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2357 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2359 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2361 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2363 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2364 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2366 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2369 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2370 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2371 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2372 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2373 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2375 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2376 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2378 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2379 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2382 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2383 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2384 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2385 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2387 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2389 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2390 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2391 from multiple comments on this bug.
2393 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2395 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2396 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2399 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2400 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2402 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2403 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2409 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2411 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2417 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2418 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2419 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2421 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2423 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2426 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2428 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2430 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2432 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2433 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2435 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2436 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2438 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2439 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2441 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2442 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2443 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2445 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2447 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2448 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2450 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2452 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2454 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2455 non-compliant senders.
2456 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2458 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2459 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2460 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2462 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2463 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2464 in spool file corruption.
2466 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2467 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2468 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2471 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2472 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2473 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2475 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2476 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2478 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2480 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2482 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2484 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2485 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2486 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2488 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2489 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2490 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2491 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2493 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2494 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2496 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2497 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2498 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2499 resolver implementation change.
2501 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2502 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2504 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2506 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2508 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2509 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2511 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2512 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2514 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2515 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2517 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2518 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2519 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2520 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2521 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2523 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2525 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2526 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2527 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2529 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2531 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2532 read-only, out of scope).
2533 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2535 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2536 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2537 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2538 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2540 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2542 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2543 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2544 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2545 real issues in debug logging.
2547 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2548 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2550 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2551 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2552 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2554 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2555 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2556 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2559 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2560 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2562 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2563 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2564 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2565 needs to override this, it can.
2567 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2568 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2569 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2571 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2572 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2573 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2574 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2576 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2582 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2583 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2585 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2587 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2590 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2591 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2593 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2594 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2595 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2597 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2598 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2599 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2600 not safe for signals.
2602 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2603 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2604 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2605 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2608 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2610 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2611 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2612 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2613 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2614 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2616 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2617 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2618 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2619 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2620 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2621 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2623 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2624 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2625 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2626 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2628 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2629 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2630 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2631 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2633 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2634 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2635 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2636 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2637 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2638 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2639 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2640 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2641 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2643 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2644 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2645 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2646 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2648 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2649 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2650 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2651 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2652 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2653 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2654 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2655 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2656 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2657 details in the main documentation.
2659 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2661 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2663 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2664 repository when doing development or release builds.
2666 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2667 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2669 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2670 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2673 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2675 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2676 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2678 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2679 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2681 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2682 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2684 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2685 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2687 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2688 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2690 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2692 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2695 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2696 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2697 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2699 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2701 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2703 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2704 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2710 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2712 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2713 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2715 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2717 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2719 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2722 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2723 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2725 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2726 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2728 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2729 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2731 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2734 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2735 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2737 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2738 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2739 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2740 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2742 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2743 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2749 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2752 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2753 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2754 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2756 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2757 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2759 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2760 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2761 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2763 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2764 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2766 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2767 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2769 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2770 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2772 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2773 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2775 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2776 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2778 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2781 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2782 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2784 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2785 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2787 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2788 SQL string expansion failure details.
2789 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2791 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2792 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2794 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2795 extern declarations in function scope.
2796 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2798 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2799 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2800 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2803 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2804 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2806 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2807 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2809 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2810 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2812 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2813 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2815 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2816 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2819 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2821 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2823 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2824 Patch by Simon Arlott
2826 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2827 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2833 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2834 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2836 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2837 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2839 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2841 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2842 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2843 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2845 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2846 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2847 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2849 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2850 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2851 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2852 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2854 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2855 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2856 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2857 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2859 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2860 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2861 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2864 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2867 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2868 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2869 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2870 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2871 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2877 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2878 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2879 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2881 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2882 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2884 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2886 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2888 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2890 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2892 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2894 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2895 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2896 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2897 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2899 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2900 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2901 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2902 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2903 more caution in buffer sizes.
2905 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2907 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2909 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2911 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2913 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2915 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2917 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2919 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2920 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2921 ignore trailing whitespace.
2923 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2925 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2928 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2929 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2931 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2932 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2933 Notification from John Horne.
2935 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2938 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2939 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2942 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2945 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2946 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2947 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2949 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2950 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2951 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2954 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2955 option (effectively making it always true).
2957 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2958 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2960 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2961 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2963 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2964 run-time user, instead of root.
2966 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2967 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2969 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2970 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2973 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2974 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2975 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2977 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2979 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2985 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2986 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2989 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2990 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2993 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2994 Patch from Alain Williams
2996 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2998 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2999 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3001 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3002 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3004 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3006 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3008 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3009 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3011 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3013 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3015 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3016 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3017 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3019 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3020 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3022 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3023 Patch by Simon Arlott
3025 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3026 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3032 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3034 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3036 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3038 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3040 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3046 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3047 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3049 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3050 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3053 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3054 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3055 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3057 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3058 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3060 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3061 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3062 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3063 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3065 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3066 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3067 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3069 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3071 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3073 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3074 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3076 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3078 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3079 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3080 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3081 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3083 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3084 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3086 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3088 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3090 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3091 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3093 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3094 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3096 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3097 that they are available at delivery time.
3099 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3101 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3102 incoming_port log selectors.
3104 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3105 setting expands to an empty string.
3107 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3108 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3110 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3111 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3113 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3114 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3116 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3117 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3119 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3120 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3122 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3123 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3125 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3127 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3128 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3130 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3131 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3133 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3135 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3136 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3138 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3140 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3142 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3145 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3146 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3148 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3149 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3151 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3152 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3154 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3155 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3157 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3158 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3160 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3161 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3163 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3164 plus update to original patch.
3166 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3168 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3169 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3171 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3173 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3175 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3177 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3179 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3180 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3182 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3183 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3185 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3186 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3188 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3189 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3191 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3193 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3195 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3197 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3203 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3204 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3205 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3207 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3208 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3209 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3210 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3211 build errors in sieve.c.
3213 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3214 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3215 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3217 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3219 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3221 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3223 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3229 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3231 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3232 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3233 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3234 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3235 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3236 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3237 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3238 for iplsearch lookups.
3240 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3241 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3242 previously such lookups could never work.
3244 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3245 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3246 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3248 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3251 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3252 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3253 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3254 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3255 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3256 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3258 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3259 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3261 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3262 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3263 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3264 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3265 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3266 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3268 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3271 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3273 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3274 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3277 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3278 by clients under certain conditions.
3280 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3281 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3283 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3285 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3286 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3288 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3290 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3292 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3294 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3295 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3297 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3299 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3300 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3302 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3304 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3306 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3307 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3308 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3309 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3311 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3312 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3313 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3315 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3316 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3318 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3320 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3322 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3324 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3325 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3326 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3332 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3333 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3336 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3337 issue a MAIL command.
3339 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3341 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3343 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3344 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3345 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3346 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3347 item. This has been fixed.
3349 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3350 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3352 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3353 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3355 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3356 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3357 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3359 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3361 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3362 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3363 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3364 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3365 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3367 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3368 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3369 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3371 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3372 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3373 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3374 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3376 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3378 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3380 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3381 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3382 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3383 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3384 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3386 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3388 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3389 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3390 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3393 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3395 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3397 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3399 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3401 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3403 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3404 no_callout_flush is set.
3406 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3407 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3408 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3411 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3413 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3414 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3415 other ACL rejections are.
3417 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3418 with slight modification.
3420 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3421 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3423 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3424 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3427 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3428 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3430 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3432 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3433 expansion side effects.
3435 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3436 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3437 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3440 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3441 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3442 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3444 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3445 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3446 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3447 were accidentally chopped off.
3449 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3450 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3451 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3452 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3453 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3454 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3455 pipelining has not been advertised.
3457 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3459 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3460 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3461 This has been fixed.
3463 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3464 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3465 reported on Solaris.
3467 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3468 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3469 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3470 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3471 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3472 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3473 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3475 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3478 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3480 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3482 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3483 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3484 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3485 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3486 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3487 criteria to be more general.
3489 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3490 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3491 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3492 host_all_ignored option.
3494 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3495 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3496 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3497 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3498 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3499 is what is supposed to happen).
3501 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3502 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3503 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3504 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3505 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3508 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3509 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3510 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3511 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3512 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3513 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3516 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3518 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3519 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3521 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3522 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3524 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3526 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3528 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3529 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3530 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3531 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3532 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3533 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3534 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3535 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3536 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3537 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3538 least in a lot of common cases.
3540 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3541 advertised in response to EHLO.
3547 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3548 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3550 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3551 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3553 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3554 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3555 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3557 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3558 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3559 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3560 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3561 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3567 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3568 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3571 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3572 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3573 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3575 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3576 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3577 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3578 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3579 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3580 rather than extend the field.
3586 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3587 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3588 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3589 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3592 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3593 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3594 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3596 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3597 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3598 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3600 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3601 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3602 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3605 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3606 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3607 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3608 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3609 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3610 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3611 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3612 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3613 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3614 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3615 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3617 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3620 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3621 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3622 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3623 ignores EPIPE as well.
3625 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3626 (quoted-printable decoding).
3628 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3629 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3631 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3633 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3635 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3637 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3638 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3640 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3643 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3644 miscellaneous code fixes
3646 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3649 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3650 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3651 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3652 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3653 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3654 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3655 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3656 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3658 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3659 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3660 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3661 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3663 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3664 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3665 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3666 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3667 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3668 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3669 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3670 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3671 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3673 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3676 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3677 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3678 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3679 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3680 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3681 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3682 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3683 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3685 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3686 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3689 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3690 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3691 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3692 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3693 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3694 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3695 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3696 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3697 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3698 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3699 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3700 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3701 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3703 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3704 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3705 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3706 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3707 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3708 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3709 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3711 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3712 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3713 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3714 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3715 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3716 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3717 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3718 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3719 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3720 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3722 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3723 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3724 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3725 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3726 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3728 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3729 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3730 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3731 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3732 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3733 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3734 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3736 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3737 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3738 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3739 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3740 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3741 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3744 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3745 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3746 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3749 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3750 if any retry times were supplied.
3752 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3753 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3754 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3756 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3758 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3760 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3761 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3762 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3763 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3764 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3765 before) are ignored.
3767 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3768 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3770 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3771 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3772 committing the later change.]
3774 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3775 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3776 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3777 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3778 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3779 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3780 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3781 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3782 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3784 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3785 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3786 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3787 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3788 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3789 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3790 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3791 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3792 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3794 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3795 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3796 hammering the server.
3798 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3799 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3801 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3803 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3804 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3805 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3807 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3808 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3809 one case where this was not true.
3811 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3812 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3813 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3814 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3817 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3818 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3819 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3820 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3821 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3822 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3823 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3824 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3825 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3828 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3829 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3830 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3831 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3833 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3834 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3836 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3837 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3838 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3840 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3842 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3844 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3846 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3847 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3848 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3849 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3851 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3852 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3854 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3855 be meaningful with "accept".
3857 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3858 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3860 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3861 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3862 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3864 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3865 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3866 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3867 there is data to show.
3868 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3870 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3871 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3872 as well as the number of messages.
3874 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3875 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3876 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3878 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3879 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3880 have a flag are now skipped.
3882 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3883 Added the -emptyok flag.
3885 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3886 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3888 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3889 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3890 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3892 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3895 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3896 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3898 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3900 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3901 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3903 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3905 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3906 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3907 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3908 contravention of the specifications.
3910 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3911 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3912 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3914 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3915 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3916 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3918 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3920 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3921 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3922 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3923 some point in the past.
3925 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3926 transport during callout processing was broken.
3928 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3929 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3931 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3932 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3934 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3935 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3937 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3943 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3944 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3946 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3947 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3948 there is data to show.
3949 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3951 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3952 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3954 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3955 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3957 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3958 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3960 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3961 submissions from trusted users.
3963 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3964 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3966 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3967 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3968 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3969 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3970 there is now a framework to start from.
3972 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3973 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3974 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3976 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3978 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3980 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3982 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3983 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3984 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3986 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3989 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3990 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3991 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3993 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3994 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3995 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3998 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3999 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4000 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4001 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4002 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4004 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4005 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4007 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4009 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4010 operations in malware.c.
4012 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4015 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4016 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4017 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4020 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4021 statements to "add_header".
4023 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4024 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4026 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4027 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4030 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4034 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4035 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4036 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4039 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4040 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4042 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4043 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4045 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4046 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4047 any possible encoding problems.
4049 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4050 but not after initializing Perl.
4052 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4053 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4054 apparently, which is not desirable.
4056 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4059 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4062 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4064 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4065 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4066 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4067 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4069 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4070 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4071 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4073 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4074 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4075 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4078 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4079 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4080 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4081 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4082 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4088 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4089 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4091 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4094 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4095 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4096 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4097 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4098 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4099 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4100 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4101 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4104 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4106 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4107 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4108 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4110 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4111 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4112 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4115 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4116 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4118 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4119 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4120 option (which defaults to 0600).
4122 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4124 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4125 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4126 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4127 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4128 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4129 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4130 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4132 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4138 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4139 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4140 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4141 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4142 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4143 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4146 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4147 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4149 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4151 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4152 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4153 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4154 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4155 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4158 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4159 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4161 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4162 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4163 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4164 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4165 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4167 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4168 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4169 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4170 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4172 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4173 be the same on different OS.
4175 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4178 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4179 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4181 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4184 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4185 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4186 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4187 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4188 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4189 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4192 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4193 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4194 when Exim was called.
4196 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4197 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4199 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4200 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4201 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4202 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4204 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4205 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4206 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4207 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4210 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4211 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4212 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4214 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4215 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4216 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4218 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4221 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4222 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4223 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4224 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4225 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4226 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4227 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4228 values from the SRV records were lost.
4230 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4231 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4232 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4234 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4235 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4236 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4238 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4239 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4240 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4241 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4242 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4243 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4244 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4245 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4246 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4247 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4249 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4250 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4251 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4253 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4254 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4256 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4257 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4258 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4259 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4262 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4263 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4264 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4266 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4267 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4268 PH/23 above applies.
4270 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4271 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4272 (for which there is an explicit test).
4274 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4276 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4277 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4278 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4279 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4280 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4282 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4283 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4284 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4285 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4287 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4288 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4289 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4291 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4293 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4295 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4296 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4297 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4299 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4300 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4301 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4302 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4303 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4305 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4306 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4307 the message gets confusing).
4309 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4310 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4311 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4312 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4314 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4315 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4316 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4317 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4320 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4321 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4322 the different processes.
4324 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4326 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4328 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4329 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4331 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4332 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4334 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4335 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4336 messages matching specified criteria.
4338 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4340 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4341 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4343 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4344 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4345 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4346 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4347 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4348 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4349 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4350 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4351 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4352 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4354 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4355 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4356 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4358 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4360 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4361 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4362 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4363 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4364 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4365 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4366 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4369 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4370 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4372 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4374 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4376 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4378 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4379 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4380 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4381 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4382 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4383 size of the count of files.
4385 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4387 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4390 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4391 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4392 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4393 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4395 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4396 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4397 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4399 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4400 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4401 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4402 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4403 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4405 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4406 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4408 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4409 will now be deprecated.
4411 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4413 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4414 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4415 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4417 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4418 with very large, slow to parse queues
4420 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4422 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4424 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4425 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4426 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4429 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4430 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4431 Sieve code now uses this.
4433 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4434 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4436 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4437 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4439 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4441 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4442 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4443 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4444 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4445 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4447 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4448 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4449 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4450 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4452 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4454 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4456 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4457 is preferred over IPv4.
4459 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4460 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4461 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4462 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4463 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4464 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4465 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4467 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4468 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4469 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4471 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4473 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4474 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4475 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4476 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4477 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4478 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4479 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4480 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4481 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4482 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4483 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4485 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4486 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4487 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4493 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4495 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4496 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4498 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4499 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4500 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4502 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4504 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4507 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4510 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4511 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4512 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4515 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4516 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4518 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4519 inside the third argument.
4521 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4522 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4525 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4526 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4528 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4529 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4531 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4533 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4534 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4537 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4539 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4540 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4541 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4542 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4543 identical. For example:
4545 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4547 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4548 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4549 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4551 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4552 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4553 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4554 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4556 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4557 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4558 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4561 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4563 o fixes some comments
4564 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4565 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4566 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4567 and documents the missing references header update
4571 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4572 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4575 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4576 Electronic Mail") by including:
4578 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4580 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4581 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4582 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4583 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4584 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4586 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4588 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4590 The auto-replied keyword:
4592 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4593 message by an automatic process,
4595 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4597 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4598 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4600 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4601 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4604 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4605 to the default Received: header definition.
4607 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4609 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4610 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4611 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4613 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4614 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4615 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4617 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4618 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4619 and treats the condition as false.
4621 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4623 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4624 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4625 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4626 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4627 not changing the active code.
4629 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4630 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4632 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4633 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4635 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4638 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4639 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4640 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4641 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4642 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4643 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4644 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4645 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4646 the text comparison.
4648 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4649 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4650 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4651 The same fix has been applied.
4657 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4658 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4661 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4662 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4664 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4666 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4667 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4668 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4669 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4670 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4672 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4673 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4674 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4675 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4678 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4686 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4687 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4689 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4691 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4693 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4694 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4695 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4697 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4698 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4699 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4701 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4702 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4705 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4706 ${stat: expansion item.
4708 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4709 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4711 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4712 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4715 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4717 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4720 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4721 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4723 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4725 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4726 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4727 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4728 the end of the subprocess.
4730 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4731 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4732 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4733 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4734 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4736 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4738 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4740 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4741 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4743 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4745 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4747 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4748 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4751 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4753 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4754 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4755 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4757 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4758 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4760 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4761 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4763 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4764 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4766 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4767 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4769 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4770 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4771 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4772 contributed by a Radius user.
4774 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4775 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4777 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4778 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4780 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4783 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4784 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4787 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4788 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4789 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4790 header lines when this was not necessary.
4792 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4794 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4795 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4796 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4799 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4802 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4803 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4804 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4805 return code was incorrect.
4807 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4809 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4811 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4813 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4815 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4816 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4817 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4818 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4819 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4822 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4824 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4825 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4826 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4827 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4828 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4829 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4830 which is clearly wrong.
4832 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4834 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4835 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4836 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4839 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4840 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4842 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4844 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4845 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4847 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4848 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4850 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4851 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4853 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4854 recipients, not senders.
4856 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4857 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4859 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4861 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4863 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4864 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4865 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4866 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4868 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4870 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4871 clock is set back in time.
4873 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4874 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4876 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4877 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4879 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4880 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4883 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4884 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4887 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4890 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4892 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4893 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4894 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4896 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4897 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4898 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4899 helo verification defer as a failure.
4901 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4902 actual error message.
4908 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4910 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4911 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4912 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4913 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4915 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4917 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4918 can still be requested.
4920 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4921 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4922 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4923 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4925 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4926 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4927 circumstances, but probably never did.
4929 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4930 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4931 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4934 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4936 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4937 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4939 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4941 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4943 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4944 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4945 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4946 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4947 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4948 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4950 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4951 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4952 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4953 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4954 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4955 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4957 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4958 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4960 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4961 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4963 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4964 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4966 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4968 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4970 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4972 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4974 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4976 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4978 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4980 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4981 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4982 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4984 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4985 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4986 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4987 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4989 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4990 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4991 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4993 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4994 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4995 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4996 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4998 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4999 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5002 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5003 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5004 should work with maildirs and everything.
5006 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5007 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5009 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5012 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5013 function for BDB 4.3.
5015 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5017 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5018 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5021 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5022 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5023 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5024 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5025 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5026 formatting function string_vformat().
5028 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5029 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5030 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5031 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5032 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5033 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5034 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5035 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5037 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5038 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5041 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5042 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5044 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5045 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5046 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5047 test. It is now used for both.
5049 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5050 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5051 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5052 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5053 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5054 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5056 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5057 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5058 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5061 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5062 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5063 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5065 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5066 experimental DomainKeys support:
5068 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5069 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5070 the control was given.
5072 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5074 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5076 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5078 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5079 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5080 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5083 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5084 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5085 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5086 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5087 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5088 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5091 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5092 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5093 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5094 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5095 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5096 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5098 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5099 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5100 do -d+all out of habit.
5102 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5103 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5106 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5107 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5108 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5109 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5110 record types that Exim uses.
5112 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5113 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5114 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5115 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5116 non-existent file that was broken.
5118 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5119 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5121 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5122 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5123 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5125 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5127 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5128 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5129 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5130 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5131 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5134 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5135 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5136 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5137 at a slight CPU cost.
5139 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5140 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5142 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5145 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5147 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5148 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5154 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5155 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5157 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5159 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5161 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5162 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5164 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5165 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5166 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5167 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5168 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5169 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5172 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5173 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5174 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5175 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5178 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5179 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5180 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5181 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5182 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5183 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5184 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5187 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5188 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5190 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5191 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5192 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5193 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5194 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5195 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5197 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5198 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5199 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5200 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5202 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5205 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5206 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5208 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5209 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5210 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5211 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5214 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5216 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5217 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5219 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5220 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5221 to what was transported.)
5223 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5225 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5226 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5227 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5228 spamd_address settings.
5230 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5231 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5232 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5233 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5234 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5236 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5238 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5239 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5240 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5241 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5242 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5244 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5245 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5247 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5248 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5249 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5250 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5251 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5252 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5253 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5256 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5257 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5258 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5259 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5260 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5261 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5262 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5265 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5267 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5268 driver and ACL definitions.
5270 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5271 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5273 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5274 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5275 understands it better than I do:
5277 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5278 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5280 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5281 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5282 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5283 => three warnings about OTP not working
5284 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5286 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5287 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5288 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5289 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5291 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5292 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5294 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5295 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5296 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5298 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5299 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5302 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5303 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5306 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5307 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5308 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5310 warn !verify = sender
5311 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5313 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5314 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5316 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5318 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5319 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5321 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5322 nomenclature these days.)
5324 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5325 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5327 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5328 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5329 . First host does not offer TLS;
5330 . First host accepts first address;
5331 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5332 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5333 . Second host accepts second address.
5334 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5335 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5338 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5339 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5340 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5341 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5342 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5344 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5345 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5347 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5348 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5350 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5351 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5352 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5354 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5355 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5358 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5360 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5361 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5362 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5363 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5364 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5365 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5366 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5368 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5369 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5370 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5371 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5372 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5374 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5375 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5378 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5379 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5380 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5381 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5382 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5383 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5385 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5387 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5388 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5389 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5390 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5391 printable escape sequences.
5393 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5394 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5397 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5398 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5401 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5402 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5403 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5404 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5405 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5407 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5408 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5409 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5411 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5413 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5414 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5417 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5418 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5419 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5420 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5421 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5422 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5423 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5424 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5425 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5428 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5429 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5430 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5431 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5435 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5436 ----------------------------------------
5438 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5439 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5440 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5441 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5442 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5443 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5446 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5447 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5448 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5449 historical information.
5455 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5457 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5458 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5460 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5461 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5464 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5465 filter fails to execute.
5467 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5468 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5469 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5470 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5471 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5473 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5475 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5476 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5477 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5478 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5480 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5481 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5482 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5483 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5484 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5486 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5488 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5490 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5491 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5492 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5493 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5495 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5496 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5497 sender verification.
5499 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5500 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5502 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5504 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5507 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5508 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5510 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5511 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5513 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5514 information about exactly what failed.
5516 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5518 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5519 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5520 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5522 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5523 It is now set to "smtps".
5525 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5526 ignore_target_hosts.
5528 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5529 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5530 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5531 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5534 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5535 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5536 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5538 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5539 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5540 wake it up if nothing else does.
5542 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5543 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5544 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5547 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5548 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5550 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5552 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5553 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5554 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5555 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5556 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5557 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5558 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5559 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5561 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5562 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5563 than one IP address.
5565 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5566 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5567 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5568 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5570 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5571 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5572 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5573 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5574 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5577 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5578 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5579 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5580 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5582 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5583 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5586 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5587 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5588 $sender_host_address.
5590 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5591 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5592 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5593 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5594 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5597 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5599 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5600 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5602 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5603 just the host names, not the priorities.
5605 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5606 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5607 controlled by a keyword.
5609 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5610 multiple records are returned.
5612 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5613 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5616 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5618 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5619 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5621 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5622 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5623 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5625 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5627 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5629 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5631 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5632 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5633 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5634 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5635 because the tests only now provoked it.
5637 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5638 (this can affect the format of dates).
5640 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5641 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5642 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5643 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5645 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5647 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5648 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5649 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5650 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5652 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5653 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5654 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5656 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5659 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5660 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5661 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5662 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5663 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5664 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5667 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5668 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5669 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5672 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5673 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5674 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5676 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5677 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5678 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5679 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5680 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5681 so I produce this patch..."
5683 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5684 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5687 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5688 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5689 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5690 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5693 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5695 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5696 long debug lines gets shown.
5698 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5699 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5701 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5703 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5704 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5705 of $primary_hostname.
5707 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5708 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5709 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5710 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5711 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5712 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5713 by change 4.50/55 above.
5715 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5716 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5717 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5718 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5719 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5720 running as the user.
5723 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5724 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5725 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5728 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5729 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5731 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5732 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5733 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5734 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5735 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5737 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5738 This has been fixed.
5740 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5741 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5742 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5743 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5746 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5748 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5749 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5750 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5751 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5753 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5754 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5756 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5757 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5758 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5760 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5761 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5762 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5765 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5766 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5767 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5769 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5770 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5771 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5772 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5774 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5775 during host lookups.
5777 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5778 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5780 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5782 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5783 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5784 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5785 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5786 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5789 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5790 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5792 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5793 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5794 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5796 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5798 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5799 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5800 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5801 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5802 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5803 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5806 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5807 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5808 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5809 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5810 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5812 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5815 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5817 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5818 "vacation" handling.
5820 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5821 OS variants using glibc.
5823 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5826 ----------------------------------------------------
5827 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5828 ----------------------------------------------------
5834 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5835 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5838 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5839 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5842 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5843 filter fails to execute.
5845 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5846 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5847 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5848 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5849 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5851 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5852 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5853 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5854 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5856 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5857 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5858 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5859 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5860 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5862 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5864 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5865 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5866 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5867 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5869 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5870 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5871 sender verification.
5873 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5874 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5876 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5877 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5879 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5880 ignore_target_hosts.
5882 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5883 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5884 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5885 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5888 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5889 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5890 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5892 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5893 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5894 wake it up if nothing else does.
5896 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5897 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5898 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5901 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5902 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5904 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5906 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5907 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5910 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5911 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5914 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5915 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5916 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5917 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5918 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5921 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5922 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5925 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5926 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5927 $sender_host_address.
5929 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5931 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5932 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5933 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5935 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5938 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5939 (this can affect the format of dates).
5941 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5942 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5943 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5944 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5946 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5947 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5948 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5950 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5951 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5952 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5953 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5955 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5956 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5957 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5959 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5962 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5963 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5964 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5965 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5966 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5967 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5970 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5971 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5972 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5973 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5976 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5977 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5978 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5979 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5980 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5981 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5982 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5984 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5985 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5986 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5987 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5988 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5989 running as the user.
5992 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5993 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5994 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5997 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5998 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5999 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6000 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6001 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6003 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6004 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6005 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6006 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6009 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6010 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6011 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6012 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6013 because the tests only now provoked it.
6019 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6020 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6021 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6022 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6023 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6024 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6025 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6027 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6028 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6031 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6033 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6035 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6036 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6039 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6040 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6041 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6042 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6043 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6045 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6046 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6048 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6050 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6052 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6055 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6056 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6058 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6059 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6060 affecting debugging statements).
6062 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6064 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6065 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6066 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6067 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6068 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6069 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6070 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6071 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6072 after the received time, and all would be well.
6074 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6075 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6076 condition in an expansion string.
6078 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6080 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6081 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6082 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6083 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6084 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6085 job under whatever limits there are.
6087 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6089 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6092 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6093 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6094 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6095 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6098 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6099 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6100 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6101 binary data in such strings.
6103 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6105 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6106 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6107 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6108 failure, which is pointless.
6110 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6112 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6114 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6115 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6116 Sender: header lines.
6118 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6119 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6120 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6122 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6123 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6124 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6125 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6126 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6129 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6130 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6131 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6132 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6133 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6135 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6136 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6137 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6140 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6141 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6143 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6144 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6146 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6148 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6150 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6152 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6155 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6157 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6159 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6160 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6161 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6162 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6164 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6165 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6171 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6172 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6173 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6175 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6176 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6177 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6178 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6179 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6180 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6182 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6183 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6184 verification failure".
6186 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6187 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6188 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6189 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6191 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6192 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6193 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6194 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6195 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6196 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6197 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6198 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6199 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6200 treated as a timeout.
6202 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6203 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6204 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6205 not set for Exim filters).
6207 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6208 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6209 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6211 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6213 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6214 try to make them clearer.
6216 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6217 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6219 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6221 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6223 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6224 only the Cygwin environment.
6226 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6227 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6228 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6229 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6230 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6232 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6233 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6234 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6235 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6236 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6237 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6238 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6240 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6241 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6243 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6245 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6246 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6247 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6249 To: susanne@some.where
6251 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6252 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6253 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6254 of addresses in From: header lines).
6256 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6257 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6258 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6260 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6261 treated as non-personal.
6263 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6264 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6266 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6268 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6270 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6271 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6272 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6274 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6275 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6277 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6278 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6279 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6280 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6281 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6282 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6284 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6285 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6286 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6287 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6288 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6289 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6290 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6291 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6293 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6295 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6296 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6298 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6299 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6300 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6302 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6303 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6305 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6306 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6307 rather than long int.
6309 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6311 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6317 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6318 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6319 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6320 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6321 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6322 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6328 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6329 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6331 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6332 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6333 socklen_t is defined.
6335 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6338 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6341 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6342 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6343 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6344 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6345 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6347 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6348 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6349 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6350 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6352 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6353 of flapping under certain conditions.
6355 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6356 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6357 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6359 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6361 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6363 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6364 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6365 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6366 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6368 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6369 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6370 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6371 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6372 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6373 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6374 preserved with the message after it was received.
6376 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6377 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6378 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6379 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6380 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6381 test suite worked just fine.
6383 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6384 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6385 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6387 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6388 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6391 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6392 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6393 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6394 does not fully solve it.
6396 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6397 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6398 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6399 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6400 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6402 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6403 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6404 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6406 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6407 string, for example:
6409 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6411 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6412 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6413 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6414 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6415 the routers could not see them.
6417 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6418 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6420 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6421 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6424 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6425 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6426 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6427 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6428 that needed quoting.
6430 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6431 was not being matched caselessly.
6433 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6436 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6437 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6438 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6439 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6440 when use_sender is false.
6442 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6444 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6446 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6448 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6449 the configuration file.
6451 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6452 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6454 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6456 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6457 bytes in the message body.
6459 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6460 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6463 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6465 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6467 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6468 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6469 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6470 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6477 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6478 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6480 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6481 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6482 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6483 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6484 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6486 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6487 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6489 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6490 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6491 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6493 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6494 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6495 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6497 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6500 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6501 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6502 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6503 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6504 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6505 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6506 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6512 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6513 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6514 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6515 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6516 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6517 default (and expected) setting.
6519 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6520 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6521 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6522 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6524 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6525 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6527 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6530 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6531 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6532 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6533 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6534 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6535 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6537 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6538 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6539 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6541 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6542 part (NOT match_host).
6544 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6546 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6547 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6548 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6549 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6550 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6551 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6552 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6553 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6554 the same named file.
6556 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6557 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6560 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6561 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6562 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6563 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6566 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6567 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6568 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6570 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6572 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6574 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6576 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6577 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6579 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6580 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6581 before starting the TLS session.
6583 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6585 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6586 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6588 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6589 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6590 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6591 colon in the middle).
6597 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6598 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6599 multiple configurations are in use.
6601 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6602 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6603 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6604 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6605 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6606 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6608 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6609 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6611 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6612 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6613 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6615 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6616 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6619 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6620 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6622 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6624 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6625 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6627 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6635 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6636 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6637 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6638 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6639 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6641 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6644 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6645 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6646 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6647 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6648 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6649 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6651 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6652 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6653 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6654 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6655 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6656 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6657 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6660 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6661 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6662 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6663 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6664 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6666 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6668 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6669 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6670 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6672 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6674 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6675 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6676 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6679 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6680 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6682 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6683 Three changes have been made:
6685 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6686 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6687 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6688 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6689 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6691 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6694 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6695 the modified behaviour.
6701 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6704 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6705 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6707 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6708 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6709 try to track down a specific problem.
6711 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6712 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6713 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6715 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6718 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6719 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6720 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6721 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6722 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6723 some earlier ones do not.
6725 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6727 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6728 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6729 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6730 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6731 address literals are enabled, of course).
6733 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6735 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6736 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6737 by a command such as
6741 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6743 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6745 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6746 remained set. It is now erased.
6748 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6749 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6751 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6752 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6753 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6754 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6755 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6756 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6757 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6758 appropriate error code.
6760 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6761 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6762 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6763 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6764 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6765 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6767 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6768 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6769 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6771 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6772 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6773 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6774 terminate the header.
6776 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6777 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6778 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6780 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6781 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6782 (4.30/29). In particular:
6784 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6787 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6788 to write a maildirsize file.
6790 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6791 the transport, the new value overrides.
6793 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6796 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6797 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6798 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6801 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6802 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6803 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6806 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6807 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6808 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6810 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6811 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6814 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6815 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6816 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6818 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6820 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6822 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6824 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6825 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6828 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6829 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6830 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6831 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6832 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6833 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6834 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6837 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6838 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6839 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6840 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6841 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6844 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6845 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6846 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6847 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6848 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6849 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6850 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6851 cached value only when the same options are set.
6853 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6855 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6856 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6857 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6858 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6859 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6861 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6862 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6863 it is clearly obsolete.
6865 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6868 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6869 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6870 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6873 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6874 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6875 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6876 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6877 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6879 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6880 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6881 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6882 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6884 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6886 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6888 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6889 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6892 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6893 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6894 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6895 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6896 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6897 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6900 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6901 with the -f command-line option.
6903 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6904 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6905 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6906 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6907 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6908 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6910 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6911 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6914 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6915 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6916 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6917 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6918 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6919 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6920 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6921 buffer is too small.
6923 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6924 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6926 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6927 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6928 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6929 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6930 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6931 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6932 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6933 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6934 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6936 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6937 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6938 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6940 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6941 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6944 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6945 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6946 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6947 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6948 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6950 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6951 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6952 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6953 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6956 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6958 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6960 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6961 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6963 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6964 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6965 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6967 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6968 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6969 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6970 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6971 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6973 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6974 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6975 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6976 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6977 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6978 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6979 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6981 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6982 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6983 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6984 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6985 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6986 the test of how many are available.
6988 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6989 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6990 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6991 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6992 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6993 new message is started.
6995 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6996 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6998 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6999 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7001 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7002 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7003 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7006 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7007 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7008 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7009 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7010 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7011 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7012 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7014 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7015 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7016 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7017 interpreted as octal.
7019 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7022 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7023 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7024 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7025 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7026 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7027 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7029 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7030 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7031 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7032 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7034 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7035 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7036 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7037 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7039 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7040 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7043 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7044 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7046 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7048 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7049 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7050 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7051 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7053 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7054 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7055 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7056 supplied", which is not helpful.
7058 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7059 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7060 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7062 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7063 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7064 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7065 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7066 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7067 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7068 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7069 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7071 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7072 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7073 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7074 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7075 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7077 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7078 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7079 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7080 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7081 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7082 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7084 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7085 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7086 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7088 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7090 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7091 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7092 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7095 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7097 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7098 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7099 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7100 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7101 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7102 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7103 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7104 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7106 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7107 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7108 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7109 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7110 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7112 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7115 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7116 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7117 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7118 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7119 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7120 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7121 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7122 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7123 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7129 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7130 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7131 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7133 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7136 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7137 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7138 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7140 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7141 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7142 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7143 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7144 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7145 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7147 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7148 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7149 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7150 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7151 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7152 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7153 the Exim test suite.
7155 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7156 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7157 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7158 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7160 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7161 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7162 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7163 specify it in this variable.
7165 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7166 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7167 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7168 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7170 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7171 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7172 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7173 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7175 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7176 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7177 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7178 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7179 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7181 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7183 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7186 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7187 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7188 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7189 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7190 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7192 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7193 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7195 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7196 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7197 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7198 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7199 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7201 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7202 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7204 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7205 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7206 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7208 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7209 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7211 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7212 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7214 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7215 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7216 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7218 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7219 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7221 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7222 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7223 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7224 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7226 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7228 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7229 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7230 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7231 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7233 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7235 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7236 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7238 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7240 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7241 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7242 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7243 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7244 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7245 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7247 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7249 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7250 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7253 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7255 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7256 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7258 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7259 550 Sender verify failed
7261 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7262 the final line of the response.
7264 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7265 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7266 all other user lookups.
7268 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7271 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7272 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7273 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7274 result into an int without checking.
7276 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7277 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7278 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7280 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7281 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7282 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7283 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7285 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7288 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7289 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7291 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7292 to the empty sender.
7294 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7295 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7296 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7297 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7298 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7299 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7300 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7303 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7304 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7305 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7306 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7309 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7310 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7312 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7315 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7316 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7318 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7320 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7321 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7324 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7325 as soon as it is encountered.
7327 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7329 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7332 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7333 recognizes a tab character.
7335 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7336 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7337 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7338 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7340 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7342 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7345 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7347 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7349 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7350 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7353 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7354 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7355 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7356 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7357 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7359 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7360 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7362 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7363 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7364 list (.included file names were always shown).
7366 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7367 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7368 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7371 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7372 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7374 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7376 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7378 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7380 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7381 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7382 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7383 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7384 failures to open the logs.
7386 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7387 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7388 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7389 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7390 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7391 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7392 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7398 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7399 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7400 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7403 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7404 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7405 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7407 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7408 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7409 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7411 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7412 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7413 causing some misleading effects.
7415 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7416 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7417 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7419 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7420 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7421 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7422 queue-runner function directly.
7428 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7431 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7432 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7433 was always written to the default place.
7435 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7436 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7437 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7439 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7441 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7443 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7444 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7445 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7447 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7448 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7451 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7452 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7453 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7455 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7456 command line option is disabled.
7458 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7459 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7461 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7463 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7465 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7466 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7468 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7470 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7471 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7472 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7473 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7474 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7475 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7477 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7478 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7481 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7482 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7484 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7485 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7487 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7488 received was valid base64.
7490 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7491 name of the variable that was being set.
7493 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7495 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7496 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7497 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7498 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7499 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7500 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7502 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7504 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7505 nor realm was specified.
7507 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7508 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7509 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7510 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7512 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7513 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7514 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7516 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7517 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7518 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7520 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7521 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7522 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7523 some systems use these upper case variants.
7525 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7526 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7527 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7528 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7530 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7532 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7533 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7535 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7536 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7539 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7541 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7542 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7543 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7544 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7546 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7549 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7550 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7551 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7553 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7554 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7556 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7557 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7558 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7559 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7561 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7562 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7563 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7565 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7567 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7568 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7569 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7570 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7573 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7574 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7575 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7577 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7579 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7580 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7582 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7583 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7585 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7586 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7587 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7588 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7589 when emails are that large.
7596 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7597 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7599 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7600 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7601 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7603 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7604 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7605 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7607 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7608 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7609 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7610 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7611 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7613 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7614 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7615 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7616 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7617 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7620 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7621 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7622 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7623 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7624 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7625 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7626 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7627 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7628 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7629 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7630 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7631 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7632 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7633 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7635 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7636 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7639 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7640 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7641 error should be diagnosed.
7643 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7644 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7645 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7646 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7647 appeared instead of "NULL".
7649 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7650 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7651 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7652 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7653 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7654 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7657 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7658 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7659 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7665 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7666 or receiver verification errors.
7668 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7671 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7672 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7673 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7674 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7676 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7677 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7678 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7679 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7680 shouldn't happen again.
7682 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7683 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7684 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7686 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7687 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7689 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7691 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7692 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7694 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7695 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7698 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7699 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7700 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7702 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7703 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7704 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7705 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7707 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7708 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7709 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7710 to define what should happen).
7712 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7713 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7714 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7716 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7718 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7720 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7721 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7723 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7724 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7725 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7726 structure in all cases.
7728 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7729 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7730 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7731 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7733 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7734 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7737 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7738 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7740 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7741 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7743 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7744 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7745 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7747 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7748 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7749 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7751 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7752 the book and for uniformity.
7754 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7756 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7757 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7758 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7759 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7760 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7761 non-existent command as the problem.
7763 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7764 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7765 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7767 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7769 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7770 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7771 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7773 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7774 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7775 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7776 timestamps using strftime().
7778 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7779 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7781 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7782 transport-time rewrites.
7784 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7785 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7786 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7787 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7789 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7790 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7792 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7793 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7794 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7795 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7798 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7799 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7800 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7801 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7802 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7803 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7804 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7806 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7807 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7808 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7809 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7810 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7812 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7813 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7814 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7815 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7816 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7817 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7818 remaining text gets split now.
7820 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7821 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7822 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7823 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7825 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7826 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7827 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7828 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7831 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7832 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7833 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7834 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7835 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7836 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7837 passed through if needed.
7839 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7840 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7841 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7842 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7843 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7844 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7846 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7847 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7848 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7849 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7850 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7852 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7853 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7854 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7855 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7856 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7858 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7859 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7862 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7863 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7864 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7865 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7866 mayhem of various kinds.
7868 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7869 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7870 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7871 the right test for positive values.
7873 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7874 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7875 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7876 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7877 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7878 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7879 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7880 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7881 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7882 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7885 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7888 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7889 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7892 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7893 the existing equality matching.
7895 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7896 dealing with inode numbers.
7898 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7899 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7900 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7902 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7903 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7904 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7905 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7908 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7909 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7910 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7911 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7912 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7913 relay addresses has also been removed.
7915 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7917 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7918 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7919 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7921 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7922 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7923 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7924 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7925 processing applies to CR:
7927 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7928 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7930 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7931 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7932 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7933 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7935 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7936 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7937 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7939 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7940 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7941 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7942 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7943 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7944 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7947 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7950 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7951 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7952 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7953 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7956 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7958 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7960 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7962 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7963 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7964 not considered personal.
7966 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7968 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7970 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7972 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7973 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7974 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7975 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7976 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7977 header lines, and spool format errors.
7979 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7980 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7981 for more flexibility.
7983 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7984 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7985 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7987 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7990 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7991 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7992 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7993 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7994 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7995 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7996 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7997 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7998 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8000 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8001 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8002 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8003 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8004 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8005 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8006 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8008 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8009 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8010 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8012 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8013 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8014 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8015 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8016 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8017 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8018 instead of killing the process with assert().
8020 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8021 than Unicode encoding.
8023 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8024 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8025 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8026 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8028 77. Added process_log_path.
8030 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8031 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8033 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8034 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8036 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8037 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8038 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8040 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8041 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8042 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8043 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8044 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8047 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8048 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8051 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8052 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8053 they will be used during message reception.
8059 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.