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.
261 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
262 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
263 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
265 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
267 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
268 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
271 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
272 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
273 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
275 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
277 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
279 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
280 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
281 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
283 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
284 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
285 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
287 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
288 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
290 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
291 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
294 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
295 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
296 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
297 should both provide the file and set the option.
298 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
300 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
301 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
303 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
304 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
305 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
306 Authentication-Results: header.
308 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
309 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
310 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
311 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
313 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
314 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
315 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
316 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
317 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
318 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
319 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
321 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
322 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
323 copies while it is still usable.
325 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
326 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
327 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
329 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
330 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
332 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
333 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
334 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
335 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
337 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
338 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
339 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
342 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
343 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
344 - the pipe transport command
345 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
346 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
348 - paths used by single-key lookups
349 Previously this was permitted.
351 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
352 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
353 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
354 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
356 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
357 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
358 support larger malloc requests.
360 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
361 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
362 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
363 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
365 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
366 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
367 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
368 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
371 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
372 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
373 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
374 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
375 data being length-specified.
377 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
378 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
379 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
380 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
382 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
383 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
384 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
385 not being properly tracked.
387 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
388 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
389 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
390 minute could be seen.
392 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
393 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
394 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
396 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
397 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
399 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
400 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
403 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
405 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
406 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
408 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
409 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
410 filesystem as sufficient validation.
412 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
413 argument is supplied.
415 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
416 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
417 access under Exim's current working directory.
419 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
420 Previously no event was raised.
422 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
423 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
424 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
427 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
428 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
429 the size of the signature hash.
431 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
432 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
434 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
435 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
436 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
437 dropped between messages.
439 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
440 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
441 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
442 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
444 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
445 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
446 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
447 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
448 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
449 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
450 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
451 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
452 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
454 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
455 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
456 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
458 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
459 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
466 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
467 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
469 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
470 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
473 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
476 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
478 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
480 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
481 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
483 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
484 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
485 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
486 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
487 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
488 suitably configured).
490 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
491 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
493 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
494 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
497 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
498 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
500 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
501 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
502 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
503 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
506 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
507 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
508 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
510 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
513 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
514 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
516 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
517 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
518 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
519 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
522 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
523 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
524 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
525 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
528 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
529 shared (NFS) environment.
531 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
532 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
535 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
536 on some platforms for bit 31.
538 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
539 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
540 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
541 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
542 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
543 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
544 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
545 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
547 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
549 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
550 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
552 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
553 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
556 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
557 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
560 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
561 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
562 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
565 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
566 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
567 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
569 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
570 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
571 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
572 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
573 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
575 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
578 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
579 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
580 be requested on all coneections.
582 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
583 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
585 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
587 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
588 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
589 one for these; the option was ignored.
591 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
592 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
593 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
594 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
596 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
597 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
598 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
601 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
602 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
603 error ignored was made.
605 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
607 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
608 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
609 values, to catch one form of exploit.
611 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
612 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
613 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
615 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
616 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
619 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
620 them in our smtp response.
622 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
623 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
624 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
625 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
626 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
628 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
629 link count into consideration.
631 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
632 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
634 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
635 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
636 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
639 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
641 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
643 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
645 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
646 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
647 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
648 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
650 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
652 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
653 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
656 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
657 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
658 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
660 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
661 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
662 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
664 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
665 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
666 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
667 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
668 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
669 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
670 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
671 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
673 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
674 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
675 resulted in an indefinite loop.
677 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
678 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
679 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
685 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
686 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
688 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
689 non-signal-safe functions being used.
691 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
692 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
693 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
695 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
696 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
697 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
699 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
700 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
701 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
702 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
703 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
706 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
707 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
709 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
710 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
711 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
712 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
713 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
714 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
715 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
717 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
718 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
720 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
723 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
724 Previously this would segfault.
726 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
729 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
730 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
731 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
732 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
733 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
734 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
736 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
738 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
739 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
740 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
741 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
743 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
745 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
746 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
747 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
748 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
750 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
752 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
754 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
755 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
756 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
758 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
759 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
760 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
762 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
764 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
765 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
766 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
767 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
769 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
770 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
771 promised '?' replacement.
773 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
775 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
776 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
777 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
778 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
779 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
781 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
782 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
783 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
785 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
786 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
787 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
789 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
790 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
791 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
793 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
794 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
795 hope that is portable enough.
797 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
798 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
799 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
800 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
802 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
803 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
804 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
806 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
807 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
808 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
809 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
811 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
812 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
814 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
815 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
816 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
817 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
819 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
820 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
821 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
823 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
824 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
825 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
826 the previous G, M, k.
828 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
829 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
832 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
833 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
834 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
835 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
837 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
838 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
840 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
841 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
842 off past the nul-terimation.
844 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
845 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
846 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
847 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
848 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
850 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
852 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
853 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
854 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
857 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
858 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
860 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
861 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
862 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
864 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
865 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
866 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
868 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
869 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
875 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
876 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
877 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
878 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
879 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
880 be defined in redis_servers.
882 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
883 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
885 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
886 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
887 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
888 extant use locations.
890 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
891 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
893 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
894 Previously only the last row was returned.
896 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
897 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
898 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
899 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
902 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
903 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
904 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
905 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
906 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
907 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
908 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
909 Main pool for expansions.
910 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
911 active in the testsuite.
912 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
914 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
915 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
916 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
917 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
920 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
921 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
924 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
925 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
926 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
928 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
929 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
930 ClamAV interface method is removed.
932 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
933 rows affected is given instead).
935 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
936 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
938 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
939 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
940 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
941 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
942 for all multi-message initiating connections.
944 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
945 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
946 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
948 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
949 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
950 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
951 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
954 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
955 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
956 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
959 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
961 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
962 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
964 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
965 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
966 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
968 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
969 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
970 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
973 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
974 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
976 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
977 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
978 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
980 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
981 for the build is renamed.
983 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
984 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
985 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
987 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
988 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
989 result replacing the original.
991 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
992 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
993 and the resources needed to be freed.
995 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
997 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1000 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1001 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1002 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1003 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1005 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1006 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1008 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1009 newer versions of the scanner.
1011 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1012 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1013 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1014 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1015 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1016 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1017 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1019 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1020 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1021 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1022 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1023 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1024 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1025 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1026 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1027 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1028 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1030 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1031 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1033 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1035 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1036 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1038 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1039 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1041 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1042 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1043 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1045 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1046 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1047 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1048 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1050 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1051 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1054 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1055 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1057 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1058 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1059 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1060 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1061 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1063 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1064 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1067 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1068 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1070 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1073 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1074 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1075 "bare" representation.
1077 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1078 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1079 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1080 corrupted the output.
1086 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1087 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1088 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1089 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1091 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1092 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1094 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1095 This permits better logging.
1097 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1098 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1099 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1100 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1101 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1102 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1104 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1105 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1108 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1109 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1110 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1112 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1113 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1115 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1116 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1117 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1118 client, there is no benefit for these.
1119 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1120 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1121 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1124 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1125 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1127 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1128 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1129 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1131 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1132 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1134 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1135 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1136 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1137 signature and again for transmission.
1139 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1140 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1141 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1143 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1144 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1145 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1146 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1147 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1148 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1149 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1151 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1152 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1153 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1154 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1156 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1157 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1158 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1159 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1160 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1161 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1164 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1165 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1166 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1167 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1170 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1171 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1172 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1173 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1176 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1177 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1180 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1181 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1182 banner-time rejection.
1184 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1187 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1188 is the name of a transport.
1191 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1193 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1194 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1196 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1197 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1198 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1201 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1202 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1203 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1204 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1206 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1207 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1208 initial verify call returned a defer.
1210 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1211 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1213 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1214 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1216 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1217 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1219 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1220 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1222 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1223 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1226 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1227 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1229 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1230 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1231 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1233 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1234 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1235 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1236 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1238 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1239 and confused the parent.
1241 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1242 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1244 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1247 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1248 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1249 out-of-order delivery.
1251 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1252 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1253 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1256 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1257 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1260 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1261 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1262 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1264 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1265 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1266 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1267 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1268 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1269 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1271 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1272 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1273 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1275 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1276 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1277 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1279 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1280 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1281 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1282 though a different problem.
1288 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1289 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1291 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1293 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1294 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1296 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1297 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1299 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1300 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1301 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1302 before acknowledging the chunk.
1304 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1305 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1306 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1308 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1309 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1310 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1313 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1314 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1315 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1317 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1318 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1320 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1321 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1322 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1323 body hash calculated value.
1325 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1326 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1327 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1329 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1331 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1332 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1334 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1335 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1336 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1338 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1339 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1340 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1341 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1342 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1343 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1345 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1346 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1347 past that check, despite the cost.
1349 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1350 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1351 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1353 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1354 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1355 TLS library to consume.
1357 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1359 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1361 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1362 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1363 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1364 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1365 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1366 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1367 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1369 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1371 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1373 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1374 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1375 should be warning-free.
1377 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1379 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1380 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1382 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1383 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1384 general solution here.
1386 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1387 already-broken messages in the queue.
1389 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1391 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1397 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1398 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1400 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1401 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1402 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1404 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1405 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1406 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1407 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1408 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1409 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1410 if one fails this test.
1411 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1412 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1414 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1415 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1417 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1418 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1420 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1421 in rewrites and routers.
1423 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1424 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1426 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1427 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1429 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1431 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1434 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1435 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1436 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1437 connection after a verify cache hit.
1438 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1440 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1441 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1443 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1444 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1445 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1446 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1447 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1449 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1450 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1452 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1453 Previously they were not counted.
1455 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1456 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1457 that needed the lookup.
1459 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1460 distinguished as "(=".
1462 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1463 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1465 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1467 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1468 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1470 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1471 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1473 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1474 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1477 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1478 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1479 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1480 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1482 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1484 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1485 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1486 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1488 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1489 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1490 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1493 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1494 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1495 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1498 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1499 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1500 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1502 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1503 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1506 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1508 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1509 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1511 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1512 are not in the system include path.
1514 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1515 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1516 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1517 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1519 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1520 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1521 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1523 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1525 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1526 an incoming connection.
1528 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1531 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1532 fallback to "prime256v1".
1534 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1535 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1541 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1542 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1543 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1544 client dropping the TLS connection.
1546 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1547 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1549 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1550 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1551 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1552 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1555 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1556 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1557 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1558 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1559 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1560 check on the next write.
1562 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1563 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1564 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1565 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1566 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1568 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1569 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1571 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1572 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1573 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1575 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1576 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1577 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1578 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1580 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1581 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1583 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1584 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1586 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1587 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1588 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1591 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1593 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1595 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1597 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1598 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1600 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1601 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1603 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1605 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1606 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1608 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1610 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1611 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1613 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1615 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1616 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1617 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1618 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1619 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1620 they will retry in-clear.
1621 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1622 at installation time.
1624 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1625 with the $config_file variable.
1627 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1628 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1629 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1630 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1631 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1633 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1634 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1635 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1636 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1637 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1639 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1641 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1642 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1643 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1644 list order is no longer honoured.
1646 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1647 for DKIM processing.
1649 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1650 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1652 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1653 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1654 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1655 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1657 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1658 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1660 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1661 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1663 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1664 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1666 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1668 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1669 cached by the daemon.
1671 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1672 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1674 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1675 keys are given for lookup.
1677 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1678 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1679 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1680 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1682 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1683 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1684 server-side so match that on older versions.
1686 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1687 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1688 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1690 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1691 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1693 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1694 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1695 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1696 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1697 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1698 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1699 initial truncated version.
1701 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1703 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1705 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1706 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1708 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1710 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1712 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1713 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1716 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1717 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1720 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1721 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1723 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1724 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1727 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1728 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1729 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1731 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1732 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1733 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1734 extraction. Accept either.
1740 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1743 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1745 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1748 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1749 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1750 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1751 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1753 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1754 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1755 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1757 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1758 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1759 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1762 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1765 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1766 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1767 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1768 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1769 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1771 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1772 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1773 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1775 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1777 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1778 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1780 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1781 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1783 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1786 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1787 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1789 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1790 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1791 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1793 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1794 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1795 specify a port-range.
1797 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1798 timeout value per server.
1800 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1801 now have the list separator specified.
1803 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1806 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1809 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1811 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1812 rather than the verbs used.
1814 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1815 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1817 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1819 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1820 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1822 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1823 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1825 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1826 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1828 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1830 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1832 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1833 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1834 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1835 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1837 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1839 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1840 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1842 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1843 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1845 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1847 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1849 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1851 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1852 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1854 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1855 added for tls authenticator.
1857 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1863 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1864 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1865 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1866 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1867 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1868 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1869 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1871 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1872 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1873 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1874 function when detected.
1876 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1877 cause callback expansion.
1879 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1880 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1881 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1882 instead of bool when processing it.
1884 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1885 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1887 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1889 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1891 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1893 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1894 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1896 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1897 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1898 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1899 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1900 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1901 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1903 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1904 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1907 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1908 version 3.3.6 or later.
1910 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1911 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1912 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1913 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1914 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1915 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1918 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1919 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1921 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1922 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1923 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1926 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1927 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1928 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1930 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1931 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1933 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1934 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1937 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1939 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1940 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1942 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1943 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1946 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1948 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1951 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1952 output list separator was used.
1957 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1958 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1961 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1962 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1964 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1966 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1967 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1973 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1975 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1976 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1977 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1978 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1979 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1980 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1982 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1983 utilities have not been installed.
1985 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1986 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1988 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1989 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1991 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1992 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1993 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1994 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1996 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1998 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1999 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2001 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2004 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2006 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2007 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2008 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2010 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2011 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2012 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2013 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2014 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2015 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2017 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2019 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2020 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2022 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2025 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2027 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2029 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2030 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2032 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2033 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2035 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2037 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2039 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2040 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2042 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2043 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2044 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2046 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2047 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2048 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2051 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2053 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2054 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2057 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2058 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2061 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2062 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2064 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2065 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2067 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2069 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2070 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2071 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2073 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2074 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2076 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2077 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2080 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2081 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2082 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2084 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2086 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2087 Christian Aistleitner.
2089 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2091 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2092 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2094 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2095 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2097 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2098 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2100 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2101 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2103 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2104 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2106 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2107 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2108 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2110 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2112 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2113 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2116 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2118 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2119 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2126 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2128 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2129 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2131 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2134 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2135 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2138 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2140 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2141 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2142 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2143 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2144 using channel bindings instead).
2146 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2147 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2148 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2149 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2150 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2153 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2155 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2157 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2158 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2160 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2161 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2162 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2164 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2166 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2168 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2169 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2171 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2173 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2175 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2177 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2178 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2180 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2182 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2183 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2186 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2187 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2189 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2190 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2193 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2195 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2197 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2198 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2200 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2203 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2204 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2206 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2207 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2209 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2211 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2213 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2216 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2219 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2221 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2222 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2223 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2224 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2226 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2228 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2229 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2230 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2231 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2234 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2235 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2236 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2238 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2239 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2240 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2241 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2243 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2244 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2245 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2246 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2247 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2248 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2249 delivery, as in LMTP.
2251 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2252 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2254 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2256 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2260 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2261 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2262 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2263 username as equal to the username.
2265 This change corrects that bug.
2267 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2268 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2269 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2271 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2273 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2274 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2275 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2276 NULL dereference and crash.
2278 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2280 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2281 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2282 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2284 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2286 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2287 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2288 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2289 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2290 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2291 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2292 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2293 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2294 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2295 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2296 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2298 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2299 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2301 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2302 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2305 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2306 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2307 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2308 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2309 an empty string is now equivalent.
2311 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2312 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2313 not performing validation itself.
2315 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2316 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2318 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2321 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2323 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2324 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2325 other false fix of the same issue.
2326 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2329 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2330 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2332 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2333 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2334 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2336 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2337 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2338 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2340 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2342 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2344 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2345 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2347 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2350 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2351 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2352 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2353 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2354 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2356 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2357 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2359 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2360 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2363 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2364 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2365 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2366 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2368 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2370 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2371 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2372 from multiple comments on this bug.
2374 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2376 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2377 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2380 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2381 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2383 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2384 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2390 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2392 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2398 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2399 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2400 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2402 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2404 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2407 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2409 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2411 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2413 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2414 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2416 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2417 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2419 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2420 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2422 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2423 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2424 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2426 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2428 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2429 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2431 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2433 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2435 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2436 non-compliant senders.
2437 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2439 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2440 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2441 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2443 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2444 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2445 in spool file corruption.
2447 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2448 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2449 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2452 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2453 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2454 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2456 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2457 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2459 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2461 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2463 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2465 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2466 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2467 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2469 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2470 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2471 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2472 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2474 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2475 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2477 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2478 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2479 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2480 resolver implementation change.
2482 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2483 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2485 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2487 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2489 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2490 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2492 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2493 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2495 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2496 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2498 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2499 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2500 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2501 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2502 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2504 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2506 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2507 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2508 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2510 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2512 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2513 read-only, out of scope).
2514 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2516 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2517 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2518 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2519 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2521 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2523 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2524 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2525 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2526 real issues in debug logging.
2528 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2529 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2531 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2532 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2533 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2535 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2536 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2537 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2540 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2541 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2543 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2544 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2545 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2546 needs to override this, it can.
2548 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2549 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2550 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2552 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2553 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2554 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2555 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2557 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2563 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2564 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2566 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2568 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2571 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2572 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2574 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2575 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2576 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2578 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2579 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2580 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2581 not safe for signals.
2583 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2584 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2585 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2586 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2589 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2591 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2592 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2593 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2594 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2595 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2597 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2598 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2599 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2600 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2601 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2602 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2604 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2605 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2606 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2607 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2609 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2610 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2611 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2612 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2614 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2615 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2616 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2617 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2618 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2619 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2620 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2621 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2622 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2624 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2625 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2626 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2627 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2629 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2630 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2631 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2632 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2633 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2634 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2635 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2636 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2637 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2638 details in the main documentation.
2640 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2642 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2644 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2645 repository when doing development or release builds.
2647 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2648 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2650 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2651 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2654 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2656 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2657 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2659 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2660 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2662 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2663 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2665 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2666 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2668 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2669 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2671 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2673 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2676 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2677 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2678 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2680 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2682 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2684 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2685 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2691 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2693 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2694 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2696 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2698 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2700 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2703 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2704 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2706 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2707 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2709 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2710 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2712 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2715 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2716 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2718 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2719 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2720 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2721 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2723 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2724 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2730 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2733 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2734 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2735 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2737 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2738 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2740 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2741 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2742 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2744 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2745 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2747 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2748 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2750 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2751 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2753 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2754 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2756 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2757 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2759 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2762 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2763 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2765 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2766 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2768 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2769 SQL string expansion failure details.
2770 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2772 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2773 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2775 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2776 extern declarations in function scope.
2777 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2779 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2780 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2781 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2784 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2785 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2787 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2788 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2790 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2791 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2793 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2794 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2796 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2797 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2800 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2802 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2804 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2805 Patch by Simon Arlott
2807 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2808 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2814 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2815 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2817 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2818 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2820 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2822 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2823 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2824 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2826 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2827 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2828 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2830 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2831 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2832 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2833 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2835 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2836 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2837 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2838 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2840 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2841 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2842 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2845 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2848 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2849 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2850 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2851 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2852 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2858 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2859 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2860 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2862 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2863 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2865 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2867 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2869 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2871 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2873 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2875 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2876 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2877 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2878 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2880 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2881 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2882 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2883 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2884 more caution in buffer sizes.
2886 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2888 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2890 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2892 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2894 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2896 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2898 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2900 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2901 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2902 ignore trailing whitespace.
2904 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2906 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2909 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2910 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2912 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2913 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2914 Notification from John Horne.
2916 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2919 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2920 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2923 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2926 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2927 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2928 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2930 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2931 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2932 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2935 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2936 option (effectively making it always true).
2938 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2939 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2941 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2942 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2944 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2945 run-time user, instead of root.
2947 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2948 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2950 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2951 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2954 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2955 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2956 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2958 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2960 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2966 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2967 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2970 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2971 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2974 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2975 Patch from Alain Williams
2977 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2979 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2980 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2982 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2983 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2985 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2987 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2989 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2990 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2992 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2994 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2996 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2997 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2998 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3000 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3001 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3003 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3004 Patch by Simon Arlott
3006 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3007 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3013 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3015 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3017 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3019 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3021 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3027 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3028 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3030 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3031 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3034 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3035 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3036 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3038 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3039 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3041 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3042 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3043 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3044 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3046 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3047 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3048 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3050 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3052 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3054 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3055 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3057 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3059 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3060 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3061 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3062 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3064 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3065 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3067 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3069 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3071 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3072 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3074 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3075 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3077 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3078 that they are available at delivery time.
3080 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3082 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3083 incoming_port log selectors.
3085 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3086 setting expands to an empty string.
3088 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3089 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3091 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3092 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3094 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3095 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3097 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3098 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3100 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3101 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3103 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3104 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3106 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3108 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3109 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3111 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3112 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3114 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3116 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3117 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3119 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3121 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3123 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3126 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3127 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3129 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3130 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3132 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3133 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3135 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3136 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3138 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3139 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3141 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3142 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3144 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3145 plus update to original patch.
3147 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3149 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3150 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3152 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3154 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3156 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3158 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3160 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3161 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3163 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3164 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3166 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3167 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3169 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3170 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3172 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3174 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3176 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3178 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3184 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3185 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3186 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3188 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3189 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3190 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3191 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3192 build errors in sieve.c.
3194 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3195 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3196 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3198 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3200 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3202 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3204 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3210 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3212 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3213 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3214 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3215 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3216 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3217 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3218 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3219 for iplsearch lookups.
3221 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3222 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3223 previously such lookups could never work.
3225 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3226 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3227 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3229 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3232 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3233 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3234 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3235 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3236 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3237 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3239 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3240 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3242 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3243 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3244 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3245 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3246 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3247 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3249 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3252 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3254 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3255 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3258 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3259 by clients under certain conditions.
3261 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3262 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3264 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3266 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3267 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3269 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3271 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3273 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3275 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3276 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3278 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3280 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3281 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3283 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3285 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3287 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3288 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3289 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3290 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3292 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3293 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3294 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3296 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3297 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3299 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3301 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3303 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3305 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3306 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3307 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3313 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3314 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3317 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3318 issue a MAIL command.
3320 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3322 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3324 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3325 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3326 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3327 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3328 item. This has been fixed.
3330 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3331 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3333 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3334 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3336 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3337 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3338 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3340 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3342 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3343 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3344 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3345 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3346 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3348 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3349 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3350 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3352 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3353 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3354 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3355 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3357 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3359 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3361 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3362 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3363 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3364 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3365 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3367 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3369 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3370 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3371 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3374 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3376 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3378 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3380 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3382 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3384 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3385 no_callout_flush is set.
3387 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3388 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3389 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3392 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3394 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3395 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3396 other ACL rejections are.
3398 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3399 with slight modification.
3401 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3402 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3404 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3405 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3408 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3409 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3411 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3413 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3414 expansion side effects.
3416 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3417 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3418 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3421 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3422 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3423 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3425 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3426 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3427 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3428 were accidentally chopped off.
3430 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3431 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3432 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3433 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3434 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3435 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3436 pipelining has not been advertised.
3438 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3440 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3441 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3442 This has been fixed.
3444 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3445 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3446 reported on Solaris.
3448 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3449 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3450 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3451 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3452 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3453 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3454 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3456 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3459 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3461 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3463 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3464 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3465 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3466 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3467 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3468 criteria to be more general.
3470 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3471 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3472 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3473 host_all_ignored option.
3475 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3476 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3477 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3478 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3479 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3480 is what is supposed to happen).
3482 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3483 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3484 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3485 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3486 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3489 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3490 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3491 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3492 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3493 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3494 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3497 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3499 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3500 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3502 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3503 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3505 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3507 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3509 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3510 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3511 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3512 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3513 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3514 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3515 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3516 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3517 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3518 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3519 least in a lot of common cases.
3521 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3522 advertised in response to EHLO.
3528 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3529 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3531 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3532 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3534 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3535 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3536 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3538 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3539 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3540 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3541 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3542 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3548 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3549 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3552 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3553 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3554 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3556 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3557 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3558 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3559 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3560 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3561 rather than extend the field.
3567 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3568 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3569 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3570 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3573 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3574 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3575 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3577 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3578 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3579 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3581 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3582 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3583 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3586 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3587 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3588 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3589 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3590 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3591 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3592 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3593 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3594 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3595 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3596 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3598 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3601 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3602 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3603 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3604 ignores EPIPE as well.
3606 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3607 (quoted-printable decoding).
3609 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3610 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3612 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3614 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3616 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3618 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3619 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3621 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3624 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3625 miscellaneous code fixes
3627 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3630 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3631 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3632 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3633 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3634 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3635 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3636 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3637 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3639 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3640 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3641 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3642 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3644 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3645 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3646 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3647 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3648 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3649 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3650 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3651 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3652 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3654 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3657 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3658 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3659 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3660 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3661 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3662 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3663 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3664 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3666 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3667 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3670 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3671 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3672 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3673 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3674 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3675 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3676 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3677 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3678 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3679 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3680 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3681 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3682 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3684 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3685 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3686 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3687 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3688 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3689 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3690 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3692 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3693 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3694 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3695 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3696 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3697 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3698 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3699 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3700 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3701 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3703 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3704 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3705 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3706 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3707 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3709 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3710 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3711 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3712 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3713 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3714 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3715 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3717 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3718 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3719 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3720 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3721 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3722 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3725 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3726 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3727 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3730 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3731 if any retry times were supplied.
3733 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3734 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3735 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3737 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3739 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3741 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3742 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3743 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3744 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3745 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3746 before) are ignored.
3748 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3749 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3751 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3752 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3753 committing the later change.]
3755 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3756 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3757 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3758 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3759 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3760 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3761 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3762 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3763 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3765 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3766 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3767 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3768 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3769 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3770 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3771 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3772 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3773 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3775 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3776 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3777 hammering the server.
3779 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3780 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3782 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3784 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3785 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3786 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3788 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3789 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3790 one case where this was not true.
3792 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3793 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3794 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3795 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3798 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3799 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3800 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3801 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3802 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3803 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3804 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3805 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3806 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3809 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3810 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3811 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3812 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3814 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3815 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3817 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3818 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3819 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3821 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3823 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3825 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3827 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3828 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3829 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3830 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3832 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3833 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3835 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3836 be meaningful with "accept".
3838 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3839 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3841 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3842 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3843 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3845 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3846 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3847 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3848 there is data to show.
3849 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3851 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3852 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3853 as well as the number of messages.
3855 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3856 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3857 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3859 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3860 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3861 have a flag are now skipped.
3863 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3864 Added the -emptyok flag.
3866 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3867 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3869 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3870 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3871 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3873 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3876 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3877 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3879 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3881 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3882 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3884 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3886 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3887 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3888 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3889 contravention of the specifications.
3891 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3892 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3893 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3895 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3896 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3897 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3899 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3901 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3902 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3903 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3904 some point in the past.
3906 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3907 transport during callout processing was broken.
3909 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3910 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3912 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3913 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3915 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3916 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3918 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3924 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3925 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3927 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3928 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3929 there is data to show.
3930 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3932 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3933 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3935 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3936 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3938 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3939 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3941 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3942 submissions from trusted users.
3944 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3945 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3947 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3948 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3949 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3950 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3951 there is now a framework to start from.
3953 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3954 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3955 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3957 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3959 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3961 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3963 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3964 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3965 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3967 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3970 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3971 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3972 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3974 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3975 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3976 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3979 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3980 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3981 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3982 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3983 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3985 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3986 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3988 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3990 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3991 operations in malware.c.
3993 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3996 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3997 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3998 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4001 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4002 statements to "add_header".
4004 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4005 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4007 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4008 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4011 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4015 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4016 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4017 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4020 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4021 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4023 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4024 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4026 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4027 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4028 any possible encoding problems.
4030 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4031 but not after initializing Perl.
4033 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4034 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4035 apparently, which is not desirable.
4037 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4040 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4043 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4045 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4046 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4047 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4048 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4050 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4051 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4052 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4054 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4055 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4056 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4059 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4060 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4061 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4062 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4063 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4069 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4070 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4072 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4075 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4076 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4077 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4078 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4079 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4080 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4081 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4082 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4085 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4087 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4088 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4089 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4091 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4092 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4093 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4096 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4097 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4099 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4100 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4101 option (which defaults to 0600).
4103 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4105 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4106 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4107 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4108 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4109 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4110 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4111 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4113 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4119 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4120 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4121 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4122 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4123 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4124 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4127 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4128 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4130 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4132 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4133 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4134 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4135 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4136 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4139 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4140 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4142 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4143 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4144 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4145 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4146 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4148 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4149 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4150 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4151 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4153 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4154 be the same on different OS.
4156 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4159 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4160 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4162 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4165 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4166 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4167 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4168 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4169 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4170 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4173 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4174 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4175 when Exim was called.
4177 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4178 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4180 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4181 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4182 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4183 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4185 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4186 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4187 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4188 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4191 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4192 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4193 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4195 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4196 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4197 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4199 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4202 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4203 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4204 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4205 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4206 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4207 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4208 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4209 values from the SRV records were lost.
4211 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4212 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4213 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4215 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4216 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4217 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4219 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4220 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4221 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4222 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4223 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4224 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4225 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4226 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4227 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4228 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4230 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4231 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4232 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4234 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4235 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4237 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4238 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4239 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4240 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4243 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4244 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4245 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4247 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4248 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4249 PH/23 above applies.
4251 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4252 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4253 (for which there is an explicit test).
4255 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4257 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4258 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4259 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4260 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4261 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4263 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4264 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4265 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4266 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4268 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4269 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4270 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4272 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4274 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4276 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4277 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4278 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4280 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4281 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4282 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4283 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4284 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4286 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4287 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4288 the message gets confusing).
4290 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4291 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4292 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4293 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4295 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4296 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4297 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4298 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4301 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4302 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4303 the different processes.
4305 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4307 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4309 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4310 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4312 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4313 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4315 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4316 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4317 messages matching specified criteria.
4319 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4321 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4322 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4324 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4325 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4326 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4327 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4328 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4329 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4330 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4331 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4332 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4333 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4335 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4336 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4337 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4339 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4341 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4342 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4343 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4344 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4345 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4346 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4347 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4350 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4351 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4353 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4355 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4357 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4359 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4360 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4361 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4362 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4363 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4364 size of the count of files.
4366 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4368 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4371 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4372 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4373 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4374 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4376 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4377 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4378 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4380 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4381 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4382 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4383 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4384 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4386 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4387 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4389 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4390 will now be deprecated.
4392 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4394 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4395 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4396 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4398 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4399 with very large, slow to parse queues
4401 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4403 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4405 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4406 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4407 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4410 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4411 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4412 Sieve code now uses this.
4414 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4415 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4417 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4418 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4420 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4422 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4423 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4424 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4425 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4426 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4428 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4429 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4430 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4431 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4433 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4435 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4437 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4438 is preferred over IPv4.
4440 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4441 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4442 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4443 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4444 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4445 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4446 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4448 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4449 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4450 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4452 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4454 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4455 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4456 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4457 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4458 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4459 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4460 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4461 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4462 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4463 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4464 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4466 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4467 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4468 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4474 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4476 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4477 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4479 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4480 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4481 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4483 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4485 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4488 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4491 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4492 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4493 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4496 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4497 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4499 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4500 inside the third argument.
4502 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4503 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4506 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4507 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4509 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4510 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4512 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4514 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4515 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4518 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4520 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4521 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4522 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4523 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4524 identical. For example:
4526 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4528 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4529 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4530 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4532 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4533 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4534 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4535 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4537 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4538 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4539 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4542 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4544 o fixes some comments
4545 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4546 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4547 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4548 and documents the missing references header update
4552 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4553 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4556 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4557 Electronic Mail") by including:
4559 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4561 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4562 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4563 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4564 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4565 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4567 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4569 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4571 The auto-replied keyword:
4573 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4574 message by an automatic process,
4576 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4578 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4579 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4581 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4582 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4585 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4586 to the default Received: header definition.
4588 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4590 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4591 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4592 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4594 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4595 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4596 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4598 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4599 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4600 and treats the condition as false.
4602 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4604 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4605 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4606 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4607 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4608 not changing the active code.
4610 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4611 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4613 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4614 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4616 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4619 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4620 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4621 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4622 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4623 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4624 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4625 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4626 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4627 the text comparison.
4629 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4630 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4631 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4632 The same fix has been applied.
4638 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4639 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4642 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4643 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4645 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4647 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4648 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4649 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4650 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4651 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4653 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4654 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4655 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4656 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4659 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4667 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4668 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4670 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4672 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4674 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4675 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4676 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4678 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4679 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4680 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4682 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4683 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4686 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4687 ${stat: expansion item.
4689 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4690 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4692 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4693 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4696 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4698 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4701 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4702 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4704 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4706 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4707 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4708 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4709 the end of the subprocess.
4711 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4712 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4713 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4714 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4715 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4717 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4719 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4721 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4722 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4724 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4726 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4728 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4729 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4732 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4734 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4735 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4736 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4738 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4739 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4741 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4742 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4744 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4745 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4747 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4748 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4750 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4751 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4752 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4753 contributed by a Radius user.
4755 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4756 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4758 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4759 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4761 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4764 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4765 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4768 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4769 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4770 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4771 header lines when this was not necessary.
4773 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4775 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4776 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4777 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4780 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4783 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4784 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4785 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4786 return code was incorrect.
4788 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4790 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4792 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4794 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4796 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4797 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4798 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4799 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4800 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4803 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4805 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4806 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4807 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4808 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4809 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4810 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4811 which is clearly wrong.
4813 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4815 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4816 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4817 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4820 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4821 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4823 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4825 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4826 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4828 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4829 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4831 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4832 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4834 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4835 recipients, not senders.
4837 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4838 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4840 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4842 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4844 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4845 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4846 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4847 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4849 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4851 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4852 clock is set back in time.
4854 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4855 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4857 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4858 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4860 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4861 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4864 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4865 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4868 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4871 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4873 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4874 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4875 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4877 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4878 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4879 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4880 helo verification defer as a failure.
4882 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4883 actual error message.
4889 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4891 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4892 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4893 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4894 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4896 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4898 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4899 can still be requested.
4901 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4902 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4903 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4904 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4906 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4907 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4908 circumstances, but probably never did.
4910 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4911 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4912 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4915 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4917 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4918 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4920 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4922 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4924 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4925 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4926 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4927 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4928 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4929 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4931 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4932 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4933 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4934 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4935 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4936 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4938 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4939 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4941 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4942 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4944 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4945 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4947 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4949 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4951 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4953 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4955 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4957 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4959 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4961 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4962 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4963 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4965 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4966 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4967 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4968 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4970 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4971 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4972 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4974 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4975 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4976 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4977 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4979 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4980 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4983 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4984 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4985 should work with maildirs and everything.
4987 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4988 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4990 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4993 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4994 function for BDB 4.3.
4996 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4998 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4999 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5002 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5003 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5004 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5005 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5006 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5007 formatting function string_vformat().
5009 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5010 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5011 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5012 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5013 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5014 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5015 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5016 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5018 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5019 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5022 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5023 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5025 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5026 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5027 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5028 test. It is now used for both.
5030 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5031 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5032 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5033 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5034 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5035 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5037 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5038 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5039 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5042 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5043 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5044 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5046 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5047 experimental DomainKeys support:
5049 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5050 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5051 the control was given.
5053 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5055 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5057 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5059 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5060 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5061 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5064 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5065 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5066 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5067 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5068 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5069 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5072 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5073 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5074 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5075 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5076 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5077 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5079 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5080 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5081 do -d+all out of habit.
5083 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5084 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5087 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5088 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5089 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5090 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5091 record types that Exim uses.
5093 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5094 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5095 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5096 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5097 non-existent file that was broken.
5099 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5100 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5102 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5103 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5104 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5106 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5108 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5109 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5110 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5111 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5112 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5115 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5116 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5117 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5118 at a slight CPU cost.
5120 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5121 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5123 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5126 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5128 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5129 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5135 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5136 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5138 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5140 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5142 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5143 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5145 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5146 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5147 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5148 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5149 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5150 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5153 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5154 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5155 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5156 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5159 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5160 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5161 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5162 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5163 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5164 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5165 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5168 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5169 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5171 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5172 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5173 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5174 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5175 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5176 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5178 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5179 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5180 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5181 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5183 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5186 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5187 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5189 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5190 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5191 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5192 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5195 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5197 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5198 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5200 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5201 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5202 to what was transported.)
5204 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5206 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5207 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5208 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5209 spamd_address settings.
5211 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5212 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5213 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5214 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5215 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5217 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5219 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5220 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5221 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5222 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5223 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5225 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5226 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5228 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5229 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5230 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5231 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5232 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5233 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5234 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5237 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5238 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5239 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5240 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5241 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5242 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5243 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5246 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5248 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5249 driver and ACL definitions.
5251 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5252 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5254 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5255 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5256 understands it better than I do:
5258 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5259 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5261 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5262 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5263 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5264 => three warnings about OTP not working
5265 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5267 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5268 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5269 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5270 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5272 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5273 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5275 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5276 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5277 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5279 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5280 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5283 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5284 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5287 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5288 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5289 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5291 warn !verify = sender
5292 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5294 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5295 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5297 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5299 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5300 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5302 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5303 nomenclature these days.)
5305 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5306 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5308 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5309 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5310 . First host does not offer TLS;
5311 . First host accepts first address;
5312 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5313 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5314 . Second host accepts second address.
5315 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5316 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5319 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5320 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5321 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5322 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5323 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5325 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5326 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5328 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5329 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5331 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5332 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5333 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5335 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5336 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5339 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5341 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5342 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5343 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5344 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5345 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5346 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5347 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5349 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5350 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5351 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5352 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5353 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5355 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5356 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5359 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5360 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5361 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5362 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5363 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5364 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5366 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5368 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5369 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5370 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5371 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5372 printable escape sequences.
5374 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5375 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5378 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5379 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5382 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5383 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5384 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5385 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5386 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5388 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5389 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5390 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5392 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5394 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5395 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5398 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5399 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5400 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5401 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5402 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5403 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5404 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5405 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5406 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5409 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5410 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5411 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5412 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5416 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5417 ----------------------------------------
5419 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5420 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5421 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5422 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5423 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5424 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5427 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5428 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5429 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5430 historical information.
5436 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5438 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5439 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5441 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5442 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5445 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5446 filter fails to execute.
5448 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5449 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5450 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5451 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5452 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5454 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5456 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5457 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5458 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5459 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5461 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5462 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5463 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5464 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5465 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5467 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5469 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5471 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5472 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5473 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5474 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5476 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5477 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5478 sender verification.
5480 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5481 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5483 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5485 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5488 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5489 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5491 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5492 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5494 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5495 information about exactly what failed.
5497 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5499 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5500 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5501 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5503 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5504 It is now set to "smtps".
5506 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5507 ignore_target_hosts.
5509 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5510 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5511 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5512 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5515 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5516 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5517 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5519 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5520 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5521 wake it up if nothing else does.
5523 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5524 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5525 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5528 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5529 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5531 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5533 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5534 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5535 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5536 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5537 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5538 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5539 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5540 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5542 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5543 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5544 than one IP address.
5546 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5547 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5548 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5549 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5551 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5552 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5553 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5554 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5555 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5558 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5559 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5560 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5561 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5563 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5564 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5567 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5568 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5569 $sender_host_address.
5571 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5572 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5573 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5574 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5575 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5578 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5580 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5581 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5583 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5584 just the host names, not the priorities.
5586 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5587 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5588 controlled by a keyword.
5590 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5591 multiple records are returned.
5593 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5594 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5597 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5599 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5600 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5602 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5603 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5604 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5606 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5608 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5610 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5612 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5613 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5614 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5615 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5616 because the tests only now provoked it.
5618 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5619 (this can affect the format of dates).
5621 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5622 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5623 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5624 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5626 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5628 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5629 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5630 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5631 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5633 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5634 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5635 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5637 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5640 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5641 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5642 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5643 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5644 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5645 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5648 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5649 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5650 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5653 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5654 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5655 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5657 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5658 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5659 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5660 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5661 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5662 so I produce this patch..."
5664 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5665 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5668 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5669 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5670 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5671 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5674 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5676 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5677 long debug lines gets shown.
5679 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5680 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5682 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5684 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5685 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5686 of $primary_hostname.
5688 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5689 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5690 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5691 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5692 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5693 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5694 by change 4.50/55 above.
5696 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5697 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5698 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5699 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5700 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5701 running as the user.
5704 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5705 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5706 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5709 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5710 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5712 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5713 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5714 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5715 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5716 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5718 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5719 This has been fixed.
5721 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5722 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5723 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5724 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5727 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5729 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5730 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5731 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5732 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5734 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5735 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5737 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5738 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5739 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5741 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5742 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5743 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5746 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5747 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5748 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5750 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5751 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5752 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5753 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5755 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5756 during host lookups.
5758 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5759 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5761 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5763 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5764 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5765 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5766 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5767 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5770 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5771 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5773 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5774 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5775 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5777 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5779 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5780 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5781 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5782 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5783 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5784 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5787 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5788 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5789 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5790 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5791 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5793 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5796 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5798 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5799 "vacation" handling.
5801 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5802 OS variants using glibc.
5804 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5807 ----------------------------------------------------
5808 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5809 ----------------------------------------------------
5815 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5816 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5819 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5820 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5823 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5824 filter fails to execute.
5826 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5827 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5828 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5829 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5830 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5832 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5833 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5834 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5835 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5837 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5838 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5839 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5840 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5841 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5843 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5845 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5846 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5847 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5848 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5850 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5851 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5852 sender verification.
5854 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5855 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5857 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5858 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5860 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5861 ignore_target_hosts.
5863 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5864 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5865 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5866 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5869 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5870 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5871 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5873 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5874 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5875 wake it up if nothing else does.
5877 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5878 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5879 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5882 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5883 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5885 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5887 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5888 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5891 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5892 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5895 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5896 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5897 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5898 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5899 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5902 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5903 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5906 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5907 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5908 $sender_host_address.
5910 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5912 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5913 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5914 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5916 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5919 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5920 (this can affect the format of dates).
5922 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5923 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5924 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5925 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5927 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5928 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5929 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5931 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5932 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5933 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5934 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5936 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5937 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5938 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5940 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5943 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5944 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5945 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5946 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5947 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5948 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5951 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5952 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5953 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5954 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5957 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5958 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5959 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5960 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5961 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5962 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5963 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5965 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5966 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5967 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5968 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5969 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5970 running as the user.
5973 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5974 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5975 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5978 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5979 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5980 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5981 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5982 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5984 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5985 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5986 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5987 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5990 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5991 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5992 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5993 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5994 because the tests only now provoked it.
6000 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6001 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6002 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6003 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6004 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6005 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6006 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6008 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6009 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6012 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6014 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6016 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6017 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6020 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6021 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6022 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6023 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6024 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6026 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6027 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6029 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6031 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6033 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6036 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6037 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6039 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6040 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6041 affecting debugging statements).
6043 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6045 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6046 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6047 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6048 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6049 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6050 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6051 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6052 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6053 after the received time, and all would be well.
6055 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6056 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6057 condition in an expansion string.
6059 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6061 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6062 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6063 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6064 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6065 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6066 job under whatever limits there are.
6068 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6070 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6073 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6074 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6075 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6076 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6079 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6080 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6081 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6082 binary data in such strings.
6084 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6086 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6087 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6088 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6089 failure, which is pointless.
6091 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6093 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6095 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6096 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6097 Sender: header lines.
6099 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6100 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6101 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6103 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6104 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6105 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6106 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6107 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6110 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6111 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6112 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6113 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6114 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6116 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6117 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6118 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6121 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6122 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6124 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6125 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6127 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6129 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6131 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6133 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6136 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6138 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6140 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6141 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6142 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6143 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6145 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6146 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6152 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6153 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6154 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6156 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6157 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6158 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6159 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6160 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6161 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6163 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6164 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6165 verification failure".
6167 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6168 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6169 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6170 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6172 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6173 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6174 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6175 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6176 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6177 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6178 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6179 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6180 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6181 treated as a timeout.
6183 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6184 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6185 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6186 not set for Exim filters).
6188 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6189 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6190 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6192 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6194 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6195 try to make them clearer.
6197 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6198 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6200 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6202 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6204 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6205 only the Cygwin environment.
6207 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6208 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6209 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6210 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6211 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6213 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6214 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6215 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6216 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6217 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6218 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6219 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6221 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6222 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6224 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6226 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6227 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6228 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6230 To: susanne@some.where
6232 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6233 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6234 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6235 of addresses in From: header lines).
6237 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6238 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6239 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6241 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6242 treated as non-personal.
6244 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6245 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6247 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6249 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6251 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6252 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6253 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6255 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6256 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6258 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6259 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6260 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6261 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6262 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6263 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6265 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6266 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6267 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6268 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6269 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6270 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6271 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6272 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6274 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6276 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6277 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6279 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6280 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6281 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6283 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6284 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6286 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6287 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6288 rather than long int.
6290 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6292 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6298 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6299 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6300 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6301 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6302 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6303 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6309 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6310 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6312 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6313 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6314 socklen_t is defined.
6316 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6319 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6322 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6323 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6324 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6325 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6326 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6328 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6329 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6330 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6331 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6333 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6334 of flapping under certain conditions.
6336 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6337 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6338 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6340 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6342 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6344 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6345 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6346 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6347 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6349 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6350 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6351 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6352 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6353 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6354 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6355 preserved with the message after it was received.
6357 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6358 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6359 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6360 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6361 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6362 test suite worked just fine.
6364 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6365 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6366 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6368 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6369 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6372 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6373 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6374 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6375 does not fully solve it.
6377 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6378 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6379 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6380 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6381 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6383 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6384 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6385 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6387 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6388 string, for example:
6390 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6392 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6393 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6394 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6395 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6396 the routers could not see them.
6398 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6399 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6401 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6402 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6405 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6406 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6407 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6408 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6409 that needed quoting.
6411 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6412 was not being matched caselessly.
6414 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6417 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6418 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6419 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6420 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6421 when use_sender is false.
6423 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6425 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6427 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6429 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6430 the configuration file.
6432 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6433 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6435 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6437 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6438 bytes in the message body.
6440 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6441 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6444 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6446 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6448 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6449 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6450 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6451 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6458 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6459 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6461 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6462 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6463 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6464 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6465 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6467 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6468 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6470 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6471 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6472 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6474 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6475 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6476 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6478 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6481 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6482 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6483 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6484 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6485 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6486 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6487 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6493 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6494 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6495 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6496 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6497 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6498 default (and expected) setting.
6500 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6501 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6502 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6503 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6505 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6506 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6508 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6511 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6512 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6513 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6514 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6515 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6516 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6518 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6519 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6520 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6522 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6523 part (NOT match_host).
6525 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6527 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6528 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6529 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6530 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6531 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6532 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6533 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6534 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6535 the same named file.
6537 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6538 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6541 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6542 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6543 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6544 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6547 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6548 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6549 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6551 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6553 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6555 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6557 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6558 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6560 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6561 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6562 before starting the TLS session.
6564 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6566 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6567 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6569 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6570 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6571 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6572 colon in the middle).
6578 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6579 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6580 multiple configurations are in use.
6582 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6583 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6584 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6585 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6586 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6587 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6589 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6590 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6592 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6593 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6594 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6596 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6597 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6600 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6601 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6603 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6605 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6606 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6608 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6616 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6617 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6618 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6619 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6620 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6622 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6625 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6626 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6627 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6628 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6629 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6630 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6632 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6633 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6634 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6635 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6636 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6637 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6638 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6641 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6642 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6643 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6644 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6645 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6647 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6649 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6650 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6651 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6653 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6655 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6656 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6657 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6660 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6661 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6663 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6664 Three changes have been made:
6666 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6667 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6668 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6669 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6670 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6672 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6675 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6676 the modified behaviour.
6682 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6685 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6686 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6688 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6689 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6690 try to track down a specific problem.
6692 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6693 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6694 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6696 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6699 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6700 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6701 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6702 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6703 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6704 some earlier ones do not.
6706 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6708 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6709 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6710 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6711 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6712 address literals are enabled, of course).
6714 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6716 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6717 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6718 by a command such as
6722 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6724 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6726 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6727 remained set. It is now erased.
6729 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6730 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6732 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6733 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6734 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6735 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6736 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6737 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6738 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6739 appropriate error code.
6741 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6742 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6743 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6744 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6745 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6746 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6748 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6749 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6750 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6752 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6753 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6754 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6755 terminate the header.
6757 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6758 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6759 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6761 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6762 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6763 (4.30/29). In particular:
6765 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6768 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6769 to write a maildirsize file.
6771 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6772 the transport, the new value overrides.
6774 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6777 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6778 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6779 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6782 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6783 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6784 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6787 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6788 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6789 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6791 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6792 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6795 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6796 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6797 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6799 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6801 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6803 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6805 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6806 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6809 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6810 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6811 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6812 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6813 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6814 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6815 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6818 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6819 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6820 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6821 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6822 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6825 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6826 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6827 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6828 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6829 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6830 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6831 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6832 cached value only when the same options are set.
6834 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6836 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6837 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6838 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6839 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6840 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6842 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6843 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6844 it is clearly obsolete.
6846 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6849 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6850 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6851 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6854 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6855 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6856 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6857 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6858 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6860 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6861 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6862 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6863 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6865 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6867 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6869 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6870 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6873 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6874 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6875 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6876 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6877 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6878 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6881 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6882 with the -f command-line option.
6884 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6885 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6886 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6887 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6888 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6889 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6891 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6892 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6895 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6896 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6897 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6898 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6899 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6900 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6901 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6902 buffer is too small.
6904 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6905 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6907 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6908 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6909 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6910 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6911 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6912 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6913 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6914 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6915 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6917 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6918 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6919 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6921 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6922 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6925 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6926 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6927 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6928 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6929 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6931 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6932 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6933 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6934 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6937 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6939 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6941 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6942 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6944 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6945 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6946 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6948 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6949 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6950 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6951 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6952 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6954 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6955 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6956 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6957 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6958 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6959 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6960 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6962 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6963 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6964 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6965 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6966 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6967 the test of how many are available.
6969 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6970 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6971 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6972 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6973 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6974 new message is started.
6976 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6977 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6979 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6980 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6982 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6983 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6984 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6987 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6988 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6989 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6990 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6991 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6992 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6993 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6995 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6996 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6997 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6998 interpreted as octal.
7000 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7003 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7004 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7005 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7006 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7007 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7008 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7010 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7011 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7012 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7013 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7015 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7016 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7017 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7018 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7020 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7021 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7024 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7025 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7027 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7029 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7030 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7031 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7032 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7034 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7035 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7036 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7037 supplied", which is not helpful.
7039 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7040 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7041 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7043 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7044 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7045 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7046 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7047 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7048 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7049 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7050 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7052 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7053 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7054 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7055 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7056 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7058 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7059 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7060 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7061 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7062 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7063 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7065 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7066 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7067 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7069 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7071 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7072 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7073 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7076 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7078 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7079 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7080 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7081 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7082 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7083 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7084 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7085 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7087 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7088 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7089 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7090 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7091 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7093 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7096 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7097 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7098 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7099 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7100 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7101 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7102 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7103 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7104 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7110 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7111 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7112 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7114 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7117 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7118 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7119 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7121 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7122 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7123 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7124 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7125 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7126 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7128 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7129 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7130 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7131 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7132 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7133 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7134 the Exim test suite.
7136 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7137 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7138 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7139 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7141 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7142 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7143 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7144 specify it in this variable.
7146 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7147 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7148 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7149 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7151 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7152 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7153 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7154 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7156 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7157 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7158 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7159 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7160 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7162 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7164 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7167 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7168 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7169 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7170 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7171 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7173 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7174 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7176 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7177 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7178 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7179 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7180 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7182 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7183 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7185 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7186 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7187 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7189 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7190 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7192 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7193 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7195 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7196 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7197 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7199 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7200 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7202 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7203 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7204 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7205 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7207 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7209 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7210 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7211 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7212 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7214 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7216 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7217 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7219 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7221 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7222 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7223 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7224 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7225 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7226 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7228 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7230 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7231 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7234 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7236 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7237 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7239 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7240 550 Sender verify failed
7242 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7243 the final line of the response.
7245 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7246 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7247 all other user lookups.
7249 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7252 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7253 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7254 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7255 result into an int without checking.
7257 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7258 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7259 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7261 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7262 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7263 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7264 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7266 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7269 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7270 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7272 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7273 to the empty sender.
7275 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7276 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7277 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7278 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7279 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7280 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7281 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7284 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7285 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7286 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7287 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7290 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7291 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7293 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7296 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7297 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7299 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7301 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7302 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7305 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7306 as soon as it is encountered.
7308 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7310 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7313 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7314 recognizes a tab character.
7316 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7317 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7318 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7319 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7321 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7323 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7326 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7328 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7330 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7331 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7334 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7335 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7336 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7337 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7338 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7340 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7341 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7343 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7344 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7345 list (.included file names were always shown).
7347 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7348 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7349 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7352 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7353 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7355 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7357 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7359 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7361 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7362 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7363 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7364 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7365 failures to open the logs.
7367 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7368 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7369 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7370 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7371 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7372 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7373 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7379 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7380 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7381 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7384 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7385 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7386 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7388 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7389 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7390 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7392 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7393 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7394 causing some misleading effects.
7396 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7397 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7398 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7400 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7401 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7402 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7403 queue-runner function directly.
7409 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7412 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7413 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7414 was always written to the default place.
7416 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7417 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7418 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7420 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7422 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7424 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7425 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7426 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7428 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7429 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7432 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7433 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7434 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7436 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7437 command line option is disabled.
7439 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7440 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7442 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7444 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7446 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7447 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7449 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7451 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7452 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7453 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7454 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7455 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7456 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7458 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7459 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7462 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7463 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7465 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7466 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7468 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7469 received was valid base64.
7471 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7472 name of the variable that was being set.
7474 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7476 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7477 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7478 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7479 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7480 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7481 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7483 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7485 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7486 nor realm was specified.
7488 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7489 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7490 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7491 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7493 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7494 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7495 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7497 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7498 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7499 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7501 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7502 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7503 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7504 some systems use these upper case variants.
7506 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7507 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7508 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7509 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7511 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7513 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7514 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7516 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7517 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7520 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7522 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7523 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7524 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7525 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7527 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7530 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7531 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7532 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7534 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7535 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7537 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7538 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7539 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7540 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7542 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7543 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7544 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7546 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7548 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7549 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7550 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7551 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7554 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7555 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7556 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7558 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7560 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7561 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7563 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7564 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7566 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7567 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7568 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7569 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7570 when emails are that large.
7577 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7578 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7580 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7581 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7582 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7584 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7585 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7586 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7588 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7589 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7590 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7591 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7592 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7594 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7595 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7596 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7597 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7598 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7601 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7602 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7603 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7604 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7605 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7606 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7607 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7608 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7609 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7610 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7611 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7612 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7613 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7614 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7616 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7617 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7620 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7621 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7622 error should be diagnosed.
7624 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7625 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7626 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7627 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7628 appeared instead of "NULL".
7630 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7631 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7632 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7633 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7634 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7635 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7638 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7639 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7640 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7646 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7647 or receiver verification errors.
7649 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7652 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7653 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7654 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7655 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7657 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7658 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7659 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7660 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7661 shouldn't happen again.
7663 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7664 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7665 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7667 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7668 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7670 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7672 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7673 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7675 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7676 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7679 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7680 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7681 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7683 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7684 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7685 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7686 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7688 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7689 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7690 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7691 to define what should happen).
7693 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7694 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7695 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7697 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7699 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7701 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7702 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7704 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7705 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7706 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7707 structure in all cases.
7709 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7710 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7711 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7712 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7714 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7715 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7718 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7719 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7721 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7722 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7724 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7725 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7726 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7728 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7729 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7730 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7732 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7733 the book and for uniformity.
7735 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7737 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7738 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7739 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7740 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7741 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7742 non-existent command as the problem.
7744 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7745 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7746 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7748 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7750 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7751 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7752 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7754 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7755 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7756 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7757 timestamps using strftime().
7759 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7760 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7762 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7763 transport-time rewrites.
7765 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7766 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7767 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7768 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7770 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7771 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7773 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7774 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7775 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7776 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7779 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7780 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7781 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7782 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7783 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7784 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7785 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7787 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7788 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7789 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7790 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7791 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7793 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7794 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7795 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7796 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7797 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7798 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7799 remaining text gets split now.
7801 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7802 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7803 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7804 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7806 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7807 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7808 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7809 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7812 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7813 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7814 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7815 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7816 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7817 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7818 passed through if needed.
7820 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7821 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7822 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7823 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7824 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7825 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7827 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7828 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7829 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7830 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7831 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7833 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7834 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7835 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7836 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7837 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7839 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7840 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7843 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7844 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7845 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7846 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7847 mayhem of various kinds.
7849 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7850 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7851 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7852 the right test for positive values.
7854 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7855 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7856 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7857 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7858 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7859 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7860 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7861 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7862 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7863 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7866 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7869 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7870 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7873 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7874 the existing equality matching.
7876 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7877 dealing with inode numbers.
7879 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7880 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7881 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7883 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7884 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7885 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7886 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7889 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7890 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7891 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7892 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7893 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7894 relay addresses has also been removed.
7896 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7898 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7899 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7900 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7902 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7903 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7904 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7905 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7906 processing applies to CR:
7908 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7909 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7911 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7912 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7913 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7914 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7916 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7917 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7918 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7920 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7921 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7922 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7923 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7924 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7925 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7928 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7931 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7932 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7933 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7934 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7937 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7939 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7941 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7943 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7944 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7945 not considered personal.
7947 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7949 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7951 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7953 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7954 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7955 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7956 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7957 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7958 header lines, and spool format errors.
7960 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7961 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7962 for more flexibility.
7964 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7965 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7966 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7968 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7971 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7972 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7973 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7974 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7975 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7976 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7977 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7978 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7979 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7981 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7982 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7983 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7984 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7985 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7986 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7987 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7989 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7990 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7991 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7993 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7994 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7995 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7996 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7997 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7998 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7999 instead of killing the process with assert().
8001 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8002 than Unicode encoding.
8004 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8005 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8006 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8007 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8009 77. Added process_log_path.
8011 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8012 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8014 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8015 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8017 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8018 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8019 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8021 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8022 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8023 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8024 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8025 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8028 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8029 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8032 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8033 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8034 they will be used during message reception.
8040 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.