1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Support list of dkim results in the dkim_status ACL condition, making
9 it more usable in the data ACL.
11 JH/02 Bug 3040: Handle error on close of the spool data file during reception.
12 Previously This was only logged, on the assumption that errors would be
13 seen for a previous fflush(). However, a fuse filesystem has been
14 reported as showing this an error for the fclose(). The spool is now in
15 an uncertain state, and we have logged and responded acceptance. Change
16 this to respond with a temp-reject, wipe spoolfiles, and log the error
19 JH/03 Bug 3030: Fix handling of DNS servfail respons for DANE TLSA. When hit
20 during a recipient verify callout, a QUIT command was attempted on the
21 now-closed callout channel, causing a paniclog entry.
23 JH/04 Bug 3039: Fix handling of of an empty log_reject_target, with
24 a connection_reject log_selector, under tls_on_connect. Previously
25 with this combination, when the connect ACL rejected, a spurious
26 paniclog entry was made.
28 JH/05 Fix TLS resumption for TLS-on-connect. This was broken by the advent
29 of loadbalancer-detection for resumption, in 4.96 - which tries to
30 use the EHLO response. SMTPS does not have one at the time it is starting
31 TLS. Change the default for the smtp transport host_name_extract option
32 to be a static string, for TLS-on-connect cases; meaning that resumption
33 will always be attempted (unless deliberately overriden).
35 JH/06 Bug 3054: Fix dnsdb lookup for a TXT record with multiple chunks, with a
36 chunk-separator specification. This was broken by hardening introduced
39 JH/07 Bug 3050: Fix -bp for old message_id format spoolfiles. Previously it
40 included the -H with the id; this also messed up exiqgrep.
42 JH/08 Bug 3056: Tighten up parsing of DKIM DNS records. Previously, whitespace
43 was not properly skipped and empty elements would cause mis-parsing.
44 Tighten parsing of DKIM header records. Previously, all but lowercase
45 alpha chars would be ignored in potential tag names.
47 JH/09 Bug 3057: Add heuristic for spotting mistyped IPv6 addresses in lists
48 being searched. Previously we only had one for IPv4 addresses. Per the
49 documentation, the error results by default in a no-match result for the
50 list. It is logged if the unknown_in_list log_selector is used.
52 JH/10 Bug 3058: Ensure that a failing expansion in a router "set" option defers
53 the routing operation. Previously it would silently stop routing the
56 JH/11 Bug 3046: Fix queue-runs. Previously, the arrivel of a notification or
57 info-request event close in time to a scheduled run timer could result in
58 the latter being missed, and no further queue scheduled runs being
59 initiated. This ouwld be more likely on high-load systems.
61 JH/12 Refuse to accept a line "dot, LF" as end-of-DATA unless operating in
62 LF-only mode (as detected from the first header line). Previously we did
63 accept that in (normal) CRLF mode; this has been raised as a possible
64 attack scenario (under the name "smtp smuggling").
71 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
72 SMTP connection" log lines.
74 JH/02 Option default value updates:
75 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
76 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
78 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
80 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
81 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
82 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
84 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
85 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
86 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
89 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
90 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
92 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
93 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
94 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
96 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
97 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
98 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
99 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
100 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
102 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
103 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
106 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
107 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
109 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
110 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
111 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
113 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
114 API changes in libopendmarc.
116 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
117 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
118 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
120 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
121 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
123 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
124 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
125 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
128 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
129 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
132 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
133 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
134 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
135 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
136 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
137 is strictly an incompatible change.
138 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
139 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
141 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
142 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
143 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
144 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
147 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
148 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
149 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
150 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
152 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
153 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
154 itself returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
155 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
156 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
157 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
160 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
161 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
164 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
165 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
166 to not checking that list for these lookups.
168 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
171 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
172 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
173 was done, killing the process.
175 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
176 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
177 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
180 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
181 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
182 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
183 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
185 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
186 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
188 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
191 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
192 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
193 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
194 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
195 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
196 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
197 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
199 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
200 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
201 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
202 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
203 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
204 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
205 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
206 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
207 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
208 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
210 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
211 usable until about year 3700.
212 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
213 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
214 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
215 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
216 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
217 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
218 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
219 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
220 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
221 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
222 wait- hints databases.
224 JH/30 Bug 3006: Fix handling of JSON strings having embedded commas. Previously
225 we treated them as item separators when parsing for a list item, but they
226 need to be protected by the doublequotes. While there, add handling for
229 JH/31 Bug 2998: Fix ${utf8clean:...} to disallow UTF-16 surrogate codepoints.
230 Found and fixed by Jasen Betts. No testcase for this as my usual text
231 editor insists on emitting only valid UTF-8.
233 JH/32 Fix "tls_dhparam = none" under GnuTLS. At least with 3.7.9 this gave
234 a null-indirection SIGSEGV for the receive process.
236 JH/33 Fix free for live variable $value created by a ${run ...} expansion during
237 -bh use. Internal checking would spot this and take a panic.
239 JH/34 Bug 3013: Fix use of $recipients within arguments for ${run...}.
240 In 4.96 this would expand to empty.
242 JH/35 Bug 3014: GnuTLS: fix expiry date for an auto-generated server
243 certificate. Find and fix by Andreas Metzler.
245 JH/36 Add ARC info to DMARC hostory records.
247 JH/37 Bug 3016: Avoid sending DSN when message was accepted under fakereject
248 or fakedefer. Previously the sender could discover that the message
249 had in fact been accepted.
251 JH/38 Taint-track intermediate values from the peer in multi-stage authentation
252 sequences. Previously the input was not noted as being tainted; notably
253 this resulted in behaviour of LOGIN vs. PLAIN being inconsistent under
254 bad coding of authenticators.
256 JH/39 Bug 3023: Fix crash induced by some combinations of zero-length strings
257 and ${tr...}. Found and diagnosed by Heiko Schlichting.
259 JH/40 Bug 2999: Fix a possible OOB write in the external authenticator, which
260 could be triggered by externally-supplied input. Found by Trend Micro.
263 JH/41 Bug 3000: Fix a possible OOB write in the SPA authenticator, which could
264 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
267 JH/42 Bug 3001: Fix a possible OOB read in the SPA authenticator, which could
268 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
271 JH/43 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
272 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
273 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
275 JH/44 Bug 3033: Harden dnsdb lookups against crafted DNS responses.
278 HS/02 Fix string_is_ip_address() CVE-2023-42117 (Bug 3031)
283 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
284 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
285 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
288 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
289 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
291 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
292 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
293 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
294 not be modified by local-scan code.
296 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
297 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
299 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
300 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
303 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
304 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
306 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
307 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
310 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
311 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
312 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
314 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
315 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
316 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
318 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
319 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
320 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
321 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
322 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
323 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
324 Assorted crashes happen.
326 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
327 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
328 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
331 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
332 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
333 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
334 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
336 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
337 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
338 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
341 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
343 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
344 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
347 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
348 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
349 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
351 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
352 result of expansion operators and items.
354 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
355 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
356 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
357 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
359 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
361 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
362 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
363 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
364 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
367 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
368 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
370 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
371 Previously only the domain part was returned.
373 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
374 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
375 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
376 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
378 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
379 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
380 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
381 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
383 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
384 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
385 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
386 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
387 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
390 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
391 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
392 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
394 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
395 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
396 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
397 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
399 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
400 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
401 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
402 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
404 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
405 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
406 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
407 Previously only the server IP was used.
409 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
410 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
411 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
412 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
414 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
415 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
416 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
418 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
419 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
420 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
423 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
424 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
426 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
427 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
433 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
434 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
435 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
437 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
438 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
439 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
440 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
442 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
443 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
444 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
445 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
446 so could be handling tainted values.
448 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
449 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
450 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
452 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
453 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
454 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
457 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
458 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
459 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
460 to align better with RFC 6125.
462 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
463 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
464 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
465 by adding a release action in that path.
467 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
468 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
469 dynamically-created buffers.
471 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
472 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
473 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
474 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
476 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
477 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
478 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
479 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
481 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
482 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
483 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
485 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
486 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
487 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
488 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
490 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
491 excluded, not matching the documentation.
493 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
494 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
496 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
497 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
498 this was a coding error.
500 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
501 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
502 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
503 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
504 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
505 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
506 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
508 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
509 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
510 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
511 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
513 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
514 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
515 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
516 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
517 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
519 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
520 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
523 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
524 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
525 domain-parking registrar.
527 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
528 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
529 after removing the newline.
531 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
532 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
533 option set, which was previously used.
535 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
538 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
539 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
540 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
541 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
543 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
544 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
545 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
546 exim.dev.20160529.3).
548 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
549 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
550 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
552 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
553 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
554 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
557 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
558 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
559 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
561 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
562 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
563 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
564 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
567 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
568 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
569 there, handle PRX and TFO.
571 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
572 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
573 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
574 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
575 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
577 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
578 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
579 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
580 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
583 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
584 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
586 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
589 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
590 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
591 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
592 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
593 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
595 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
597 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
598 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
599 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
600 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
601 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
602 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
604 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
605 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
607 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
608 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
609 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
611 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
612 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
615 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
616 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
617 of a new variable: $auth4.
619 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
620 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
621 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
622 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
623 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
625 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
626 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
627 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
628 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
630 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
631 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
632 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
634 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
635 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
636 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
637 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
640 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
641 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
642 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
645 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
646 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
647 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
648 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
650 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
651 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
653 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
654 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
655 looked as if if might be one.
657 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
658 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
659 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
660 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
661 messages can show the proxy information.
663 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
664 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
665 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
666 "queue_time_exclusive".
668 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
669 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
670 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
672 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
673 making it unusable in complex expressions.
675 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
676 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
679 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
681 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
683 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
685 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
686 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
687 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
688 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
690 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
691 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
693 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
694 better. Reported by Qualys.
696 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
697 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
700 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
702 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
705 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
707 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
708 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
709 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
710 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
712 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
713 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
715 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
716 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
717 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
718 mode until after various protocol state checks.
719 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
721 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
723 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
724 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
726 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
729 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
730 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
731 executed child processes (if any).
733 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
736 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
737 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
738 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
739 been reported on other platforms.
741 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
743 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
744 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
745 Not supported on Solaris 10.
747 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
748 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
749 since fakereject was originally introduced.
751 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
752 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
754 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
755 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
756 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
759 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
760 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
761 which only permit IP addresses.
767 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
768 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
769 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
771 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
773 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
774 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
777 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
778 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
779 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
781 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
783 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
785 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
786 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
787 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
789 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
790 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
791 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
793 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
794 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
796 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
797 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
800 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
801 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
802 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
803 should both provide the file and set the option.
804 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
806 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
807 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
809 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
810 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
811 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
812 Authentication-Results: header.
814 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
815 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
816 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
817 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
819 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
820 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
821 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
822 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
823 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
824 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
825 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
827 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
828 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
829 copies while it is still usable.
831 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
832 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
833 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
835 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
836 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
838 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
839 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
840 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
841 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
843 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
844 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
845 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
848 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
849 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
850 - the pipe transport command
851 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
852 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
854 - paths used by single-key lookups
855 Previously this was permitted.
857 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
858 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
859 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
860 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
862 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
863 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
864 support larger malloc requests.
866 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
867 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
868 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
869 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
871 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
872 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
873 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
874 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
877 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
878 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
879 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
880 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
881 data being length-specified.
883 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
884 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
885 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
886 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
888 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
889 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
890 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
891 not being properly tracked.
893 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
894 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
895 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
896 minute could be seen.
898 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
899 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
900 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
902 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
903 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
905 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
906 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
909 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
911 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
912 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
914 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
915 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
916 filesystem as sufficient validation.
918 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
919 argument is supplied.
921 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
922 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
923 access under Exim's current working directory.
925 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
926 Previously no event was raised.
928 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
929 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
930 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
933 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
934 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
935 the size of the signature hash.
937 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
938 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
940 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
941 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
942 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
943 dropped between messages.
945 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
946 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
947 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
948 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
950 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
951 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
952 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
953 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
954 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
955 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
956 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
957 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
958 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
960 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
961 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
962 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
964 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
965 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
972 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
973 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
975 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
976 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
979 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
982 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
984 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
986 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
987 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
989 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
990 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
991 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
992 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
993 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
994 suitably configured).
996 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
997 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
999 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
1000 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
1003 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
1004 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
1006 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
1007 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
1008 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
1009 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
1012 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
1013 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
1014 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
1016 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
1019 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
1020 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
1022 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
1023 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
1024 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
1025 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
1028 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1029 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
1030 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
1031 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
1032 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
1034 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1035 shared (NFS) environment.
1037 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
1038 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
1041 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
1042 on some platforms for bit 31.
1044 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
1045 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
1046 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
1047 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
1048 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
1049 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
1050 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
1051 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
1053 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
1055 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
1056 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
1058 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
1059 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
1062 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
1063 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
1066 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
1067 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
1068 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
1071 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
1072 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
1073 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
1075 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
1076 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
1077 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
1078 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
1079 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
1081 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
1084 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
1085 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
1086 be requested on all coneections.
1088 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
1089 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
1091 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
1093 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
1094 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
1095 one for these; the option was ignored.
1097 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
1098 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
1099 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
1100 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
1102 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
1103 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
1104 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
1107 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
1108 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
1109 error ignored was made.
1111 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
1113 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
1114 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
1115 values, to catch one form of exploit.
1117 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
1118 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1119 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1121 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1122 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1125 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1126 them in our smtp response.
1128 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1129 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1130 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1131 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1132 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1134 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1135 link count into consideration.
1137 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1138 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1140 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1141 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1142 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1145 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1147 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1149 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1151 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1152 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1153 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1154 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1156 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1158 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1159 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1162 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1163 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1164 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1166 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1167 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1168 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1170 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1171 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1172 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1173 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1174 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1175 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1176 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1177 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1179 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1180 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1181 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1183 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1184 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1185 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1187 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1188 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1195 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1196 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1198 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1199 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1201 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1202 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1203 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1205 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1206 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1207 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1209 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1210 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1211 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1212 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1213 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1216 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1217 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1219 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1220 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1221 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1222 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1223 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1224 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1225 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1227 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1228 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1230 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1233 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1234 Previously this would segfault.
1236 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1239 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1240 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1241 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1242 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1243 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1244 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1246 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1248 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1249 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1250 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1251 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1253 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1255 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1256 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1257 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1258 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1260 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1262 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1264 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1265 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1266 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1268 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1269 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1270 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1272 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1274 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1275 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1276 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1277 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1279 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1280 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1281 promised '?' replacement.
1283 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1285 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1286 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1287 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1288 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1289 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1291 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1292 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1293 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1295 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1296 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1297 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1299 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1300 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1301 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1303 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1304 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1305 hope that is portable enough.
1307 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1308 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1309 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1310 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1312 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1313 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1314 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1316 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1317 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1318 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1319 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1321 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1322 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1324 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1325 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1326 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1327 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1329 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1330 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1331 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1333 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1334 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1335 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1336 the previous G, M, k.
1338 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1339 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1342 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1343 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1344 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1345 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1347 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1348 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1350 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1351 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1352 off past the nul-terimation.
1354 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1355 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1356 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1357 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1358 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1360 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1362 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1363 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1364 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1367 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1368 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1370 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1371 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1372 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1374 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1375 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1376 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1378 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1379 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1385 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1386 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1387 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1388 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1389 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1390 be defined in redis_servers.
1392 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1393 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1395 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1396 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1397 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1398 extant use locations.
1400 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1401 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1403 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1404 Previously only the last row was returned.
1406 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1407 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1408 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1409 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1412 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1413 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1414 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1415 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1416 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1417 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1418 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1419 Main pool for expansions.
1420 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1421 active in the testsuite.
1422 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1424 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1425 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1426 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1427 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1430 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1431 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1434 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1435 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1436 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1438 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1439 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1440 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1442 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1443 rows affected is given instead).
1445 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1446 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1448 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1449 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1450 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1451 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1452 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1454 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1455 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1456 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1458 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1459 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1460 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1461 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1464 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1465 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1466 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1469 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1471 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1472 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1474 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1475 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1476 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1478 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1479 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1480 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1483 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1484 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1486 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1487 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1488 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1490 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1491 for the build is renamed.
1493 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1494 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1495 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1497 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1498 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1499 result replacing the original.
1501 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1502 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1503 and the resources needed to be freed.
1505 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1507 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1510 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1511 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1512 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1513 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1515 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1516 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1518 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1519 newer versions of the scanner.
1521 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1522 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1523 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1524 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1525 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1526 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1527 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1529 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1530 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1531 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1532 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1533 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1534 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1535 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1536 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1537 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1538 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1540 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1541 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1543 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1545 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1546 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1548 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1549 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1551 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1552 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1553 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1555 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1556 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1557 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1558 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1560 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1561 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1564 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1565 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1567 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1568 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1569 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1570 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1571 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1573 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1574 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1577 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1578 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1580 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1583 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1584 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1585 "bare" representation.
1587 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1588 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1589 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1590 corrupted the output.
1596 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1597 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1598 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1599 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1601 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1602 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1604 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1605 This permits better logging.
1607 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1608 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1609 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1610 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1611 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1612 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1614 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1615 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1618 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1619 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1620 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1622 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1623 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1625 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1626 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1627 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1628 client, there is no benefit for these.
1629 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1630 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1631 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1634 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1635 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1637 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1638 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1639 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1641 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1642 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1644 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1645 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1646 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1647 signature and again for transmission.
1649 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1650 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1651 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1653 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1654 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1655 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1656 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1657 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1658 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1659 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1661 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1662 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1663 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1664 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1666 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1667 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1668 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1669 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1670 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1671 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1674 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1675 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1676 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1677 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1680 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1681 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1682 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1683 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1686 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1687 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1690 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1691 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1692 banner-time rejection.
1694 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1697 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1698 is the name of a transport.
1701 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1703 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1704 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1706 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1707 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1708 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1711 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1712 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1713 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1714 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1716 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1717 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1718 initial verify call returned a defer.
1720 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1721 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1723 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1724 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1726 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1727 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1729 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1730 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1732 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1733 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1736 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1737 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1739 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1740 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1741 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1743 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1744 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1745 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1746 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1748 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1749 and confused the parent.
1751 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1752 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1754 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1757 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1758 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1759 out-of-order delivery.
1761 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1762 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1763 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1766 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1767 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1770 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1771 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1772 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1774 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1775 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1776 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1777 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1778 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1779 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1781 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1782 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1783 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1785 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1786 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1787 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1789 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1790 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1791 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1792 though a different problem.
1798 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1799 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1801 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1803 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1804 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1806 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1807 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1809 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1810 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1811 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1812 before acknowledging the chunk.
1814 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1815 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1816 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1818 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1819 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1820 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1823 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1824 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1825 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1827 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1828 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1830 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1831 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1832 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1833 body hash calculated value.
1835 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1836 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1837 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1839 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1841 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1842 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1844 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1845 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1846 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1848 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1849 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1850 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1851 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1852 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1853 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1855 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1856 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1857 past that check, despite the cost.
1859 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1860 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1861 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1863 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1864 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1865 TLS library to consume.
1867 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1869 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1871 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1872 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1873 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1874 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1875 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1876 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1877 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1879 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1881 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1883 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1884 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1885 should be warning-free.
1887 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1889 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1890 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1892 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1893 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1894 general solution here.
1896 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1897 already-broken messages in the queue.
1899 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1901 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1907 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1908 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1910 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1911 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1912 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1914 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1915 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1916 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1917 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1918 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1919 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1920 if one fails this test.
1921 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1922 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1924 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1925 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1927 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1928 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1930 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1931 in rewrites and routers.
1933 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1934 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1936 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1937 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1939 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1941 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1944 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1945 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1946 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1947 connection after a verify cache hit.
1948 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1950 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1951 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1953 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1954 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1955 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1956 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1957 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1959 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1960 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1962 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1963 Previously they were not counted.
1965 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1966 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1967 that needed the lookup.
1969 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1970 distinguished as "(=".
1972 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1973 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1975 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1977 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1978 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1980 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1981 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1983 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1984 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1987 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1988 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1989 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1990 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1992 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1994 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1995 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1996 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1998 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1999 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
2000 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
2003 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
2004 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
2005 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
2008 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
2009 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
2010 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
2012 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
2013 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
2016 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
2018 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
2019 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
2021 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
2022 are not in the system include path.
2024 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
2025 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
2026 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
2027 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
2029 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
2030 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
2031 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
2033 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
2035 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
2036 an incoming connection.
2038 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
2041 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
2042 fallback to "prime256v1".
2044 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
2045 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
2051 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
2052 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
2053 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
2054 client dropping the TLS connection.
2056 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
2057 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
2059 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
2060 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
2061 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
2062 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
2065 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
2066 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
2067 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
2068 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
2069 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
2070 check on the next write.
2072 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
2073 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
2074 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
2075 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
2076 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
2078 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
2079 mime_regex ACL conditions.
2081 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
2082 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
2083 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
2085 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
2086 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
2087 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
2088 an authenticate fail is not an error.
2090 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
2091 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
2093 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
2094 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
2096 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
2097 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
2098 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
2101 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
2103 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
2105 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
2107 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
2108 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
2110 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
2111 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
2113 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
2115 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
2116 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
2118 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2120 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2121 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2123 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2125 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2126 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2127 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2128 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2129 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2130 they will retry in-clear.
2131 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2132 at installation time.
2134 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2135 with the $config_file variable.
2137 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2138 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2139 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2140 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2141 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2143 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2144 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2145 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2146 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2147 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2149 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2151 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2152 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2153 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2154 list order is no longer honoured.
2156 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2157 for DKIM processing.
2159 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2160 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2162 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2163 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2164 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2165 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2167 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2168 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2170 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2171 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2173 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2174 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2176 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2178 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2179 cached by the daemon.
2181 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2182 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2184 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2185 keys are given for lookup.
2187 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2188 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2189 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2190 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2192 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2193 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2194 server-side so match that on older versions.
2196 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2197 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2198 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2200 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2201 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2203 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2204 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2205 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2206 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2207 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2208 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2209 initial truncated version.
2211 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2213 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2215 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2216 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2218 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2220 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2222 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2223 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2226 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2227 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2230 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2231 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2233 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2234 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2237 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2238 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2239 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2241 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2242 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2243 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2244 extraction. Accept either.
2250 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2253 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2255 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2258 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2259 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2260 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2261 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2263 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2264 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2265 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2267 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2268 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2269 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2272 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2275 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2276 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2277 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2278 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2279 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2281 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2282 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2283 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2285 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2287 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2288 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2290 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2291 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2293 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2296 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2297 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2299 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2300 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2301 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2303 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2304 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2305 specify a port-range.
2307 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2308 timeout value per server.
2310 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2311 now have the list separator specified.
2313 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2316 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2319 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2321 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2322 rather than the verbs used.
2324 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2325 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2327 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2329 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2330 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2332 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2333 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2335 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2336 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2338 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2340 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2342 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2343 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2344 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2345 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2347 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2349 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2350 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2352 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2353 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2355 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2357 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2359 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2361 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2362 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2364 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2365 added for tls authenticator.
2367 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2373 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2374 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2375 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2376 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2377 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2378 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2379 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2381 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2382 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2383 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2384 function when detected.
2386 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2387 cause callback expansion.
2389 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2390 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2391 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2392 instead of bool when processing it.
2394 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2395 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2397 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2399 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2401 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2403 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2404 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2406 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2407 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2408 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2409 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2410 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2411 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2413 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2414 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2417 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2418 version 3.3.6 or later.
2420 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2421 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2422 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2423 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2424 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2425 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2428 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2429 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2431 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2432 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2433 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2436 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2437 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2438 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2440 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2441 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2443 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2444 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2447 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2449 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2450 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2452 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2453 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2456 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2458 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2461 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2462 output list separator was used.
2467 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2468 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2471 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2472 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2474 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2476 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2477 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2483 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2485 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2486 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2487 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2488 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2489 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2490 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2492 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2493 utilities have not been installed.
2495 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2496 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2498 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2499 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2501 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2502 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2503 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2504 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2506 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2508 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2509 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2511 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2514 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2516 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2517 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2518 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2520 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2521 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2522 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2523 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2524 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2525 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2527 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2529 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2530 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2532 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2535 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2537 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2539 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2540 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2542 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2543 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2545 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2547 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2549 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2550 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2552 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2553 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2554 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2556 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2557 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2558 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2561 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2563 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2564 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2567 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2568 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2571 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2572 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2574 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2575 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2577 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2579 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2580 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2581 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2583 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2584 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2586 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2587 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2590 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2591 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2592 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2594 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2596 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2597 Christian Aistleitner.
2599 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2601 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2602 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2604 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2605 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2607 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2608 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2610 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2611 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2613 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2614 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2616 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2617 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2618 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2620 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2622 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2623 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2626 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2628 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2629 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2636 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2638 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2639 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2641 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2644 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2645 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2648 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2650 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2651 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2652 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2653 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2654 using channel bindings instead).
2656 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2657 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2658 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2659 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2660 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2663 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2665 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2667 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2668 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2670 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2671 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2672 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2674 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2676 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2678 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2679 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2681 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2683 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2685 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2687 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2688 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2690 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2692 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2693 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2696 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2697 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2699 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2700 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2703 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2705 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2707 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2708 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2710 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2713 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2714 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2716 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2717 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2719 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2721 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2723 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2726 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2729 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2731 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2732 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2733 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2734 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2736 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2738 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2739 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2740 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2741 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2744 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2745 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2746 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2748 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2749 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2750 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2751 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2753 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2754 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2755 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2756 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2757 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2758 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2759 delivery, as in LMTP.
2761 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2762 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2764 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2766 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2770 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2771 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2772 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2773 username as equal to the username.
2775 This change corrects that bug.
2777 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2778 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2779 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2781 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2783 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2784 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2785 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2786 NULL dereference and crash.
2788 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2790 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2791 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2792 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2794 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2796 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2797 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2798 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2799 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2800 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2801 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2802 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2803 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2804 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2805 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2806 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2808 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2809 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2811 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2812 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2815 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2816 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2817 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2818 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2819 an empty string is now equivalent.
2821 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2822 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2823 not performing validation itself.
2825 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2826 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2828 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2831 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2833 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2834 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2835 other false fix of the same issue.
2836 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2839 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2840 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2842 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2843 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2844 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2846 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2847 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2848 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2850 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2852 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2854 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2855 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2857 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2860 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2861 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2862 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2863 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2864 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2866 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2867 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2869 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2870 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2873 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2874 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2875 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2876 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2878 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2880 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2881 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2882 from multiple comments on this bug.
2884 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2886 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2887 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2890 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2891 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2893 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2894 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2900 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2902 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2908 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2909 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2910 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2912 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2914 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2917 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2919 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2921 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2923 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2924 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2926 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2927 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2929 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2930 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2932 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2933 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2934 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2936 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2938 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2939 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2941 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2943 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2945 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2946 non-compliant senders.
2947 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2949 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2950 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2951 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2953 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2954 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2955 in spool file corruption.
2957 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2958 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2959 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2962 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2963 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2964 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2966 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2967 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2969 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2971 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2973 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2975 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2976 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2977 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2979 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2980 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2981 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2982 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2984 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2985 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2987 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2988 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2989 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2990 resolver implementation change.
2992 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2993 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2995 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2997 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2999 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
3000 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
3002 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
3003 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
3005 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
3006 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
3008 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
3009 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
3010 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
3011 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
3012 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
3014 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3016 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
3017 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
3018 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
3020 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
3022 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
3023 read-only, out of scope).
3024 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
3026 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
3027 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
3028 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
3029 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
3031 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
3033 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
3034 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
3035 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
3036 real issues in debug logging.
3038 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
3039 assignment on my part. Fixed.
3041 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
3042 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
3043 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
3045 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
3046 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
3047 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
3050 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
3051 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
3053 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
3054 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
3055 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
3056 needs to override this, it can.
3058 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
3059 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
3060 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3062 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
3063 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
3064 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
3065 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
3067 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
3073 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
3074 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
3076 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
3078 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
3081 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
3082 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
3084 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
3085 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
3086 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
3088 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
3089 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
3090 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
3091 not safe for signals.
3093 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
3094 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
3095 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
3096 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
3099 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
3101 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
3102 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
3103 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
3104 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
3105 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
3107 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
3108 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
3109 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
3110 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
3111 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
3112 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
3114 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
3115 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
3116 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
3117 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3119 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3120 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3121 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3122 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3124 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3125 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3126 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3127 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3128 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3129 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3130 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3131 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3132 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3134 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3135 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3136 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3137 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3139 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3140 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3141 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3142 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3143 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3144 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3145 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3146 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3147 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3148 details in the main documentation.
3150 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3152 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3154 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3155 repository when doing development or release builds.
3157 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3158 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3160 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3161 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3164 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3166 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3167 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3169 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3170 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3172 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3173 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3175 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3176 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3178 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3179 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3181 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3183 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3186 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3187 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3188 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3190 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3192 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3194 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3195 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3201 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3203 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3204 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3206 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3208 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3210 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3213 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3214 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3216 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3217 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3219 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3220 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3222 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3225 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3226 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3228 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3229 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3230 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3231 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3233 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3234 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3240 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3243 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3244 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3245 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3247 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3248 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3250 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3251 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3252 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3254 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3255 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3257 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3258 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3260 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3261 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3263 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3264 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3266 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3267 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3269 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3272 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3273 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3275 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3276 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3278 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3279 SQL string expansion failure details.
3280 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3282 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3283 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3285 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3286 extern declarations in function scope.
3287 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3289 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3290 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3291 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3294 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3295 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3297 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3298 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3300 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3301 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3303 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3304 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3306 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3307 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3310 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3312 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3314 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3315 Patch by Simon Arlott
3317 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3318 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3324 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3325 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3327 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3328 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3330 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3332 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3333 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3334 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3336 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3337 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3338 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3340 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3341 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3342 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3343 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3345 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3346 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3347 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3348 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3350 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3351 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3352 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3355 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3358 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3359 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3360 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3361 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3362 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3368 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3369 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3370 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3372 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3373 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3375 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3377 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3379 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3381 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3383 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3385 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3386 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3387 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3388 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3390 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3391 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3392 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3393 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3394 more caution in buffer sizes.
3396 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3398 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3400 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3402 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3404 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3406 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3408 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3410 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3411 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3412 ignore trailing whitespace.
3414 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3416 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3419 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3420 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3422 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3423 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3424 Notification from John Horne.
3426 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3429 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3430 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3433 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3436 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3437 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3438 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3440 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3441 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3442 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3445 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3446 option (effectively making it always true).
3448 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3449 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3451 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3452 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3454 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3455 run-time user, instead of root.
3457 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3458 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3460 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3461 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3464 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3465 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3466 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3468 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3470 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3476 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3477 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3480 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3481 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3484 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3485 Patch from Alain Williams
3487 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3489 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3490 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3492 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3493 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3495 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3497 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3499 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3500 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3502 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3504 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3506 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3507 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3508 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3510 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3511 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3513 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3514 Patch by Simon Arlott
3516 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3517 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3523 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3525 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3527 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3529 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3531 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3537 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3538 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3540 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3541 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3544 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3545 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3546 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3548 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3549 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3551 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3552 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3553 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3554 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3556 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3557 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3558 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3560 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3562 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3564 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3565 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3567 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3569 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3570 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3571 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3572 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3574 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3575 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3577 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3579 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3581 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3582 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3584 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3585 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3587 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3588 that they are available at delivery time.
3590 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3592 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3593 incoming_port log selectors.
3595 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3596 setting expands to an empty string.
3598 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3599 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3601 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3602 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3604 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3605 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3607 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3608 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3610 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3611 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3613 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3614 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3616 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3618 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3619 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3621 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3622 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3624 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3626 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3627 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3629 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3631 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3633 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3636 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3637 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3639 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3640 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3642 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3643 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3645 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3646 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3648 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3649 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3651 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3652 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3654 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3655 plus update to original patch.
3657 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3659 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3660 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3662 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3664 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3666 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3668 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3670 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3671 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3673 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3674 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3676 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3677 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3679 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3680 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3682 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3684 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3686 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3688 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3694 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3695 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3696 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3698 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3699 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3700 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3701 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3702 build errors in sieve.c.
3704 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3705 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3706 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3708 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3710 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3712 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3714 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3720 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3722 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3723 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3724 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3725 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3726 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3727 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3728 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3729 for iplsearch lookups.
3731 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3732 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3733 previously such lookups could never work.
3735 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3736 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3737 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3739 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3742 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3743 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3744 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3745 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3746 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3747 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3749 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3750 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3752 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3753 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3754 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3755 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3756 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3757 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3759 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3762 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3764 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3765 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3768 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3769 by clients under certain conditions.
3771 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3772 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3774 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3776 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3777 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3779 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3781 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3783 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3785 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3786 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3788 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3790 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3791 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3793 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3795 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3797 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3798 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3799 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3800 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3802 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3803 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3804 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3806 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3807 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3809 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3811 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3813 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3815 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3816 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3817 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3823 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3824 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3827 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3828 issue a MAIL command.
3830 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3832 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3834 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3835 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3836 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3837 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3838 item. This has been fixed.
3840 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3841 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3843 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3844 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3846 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3847 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3848 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3850 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3852 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3853 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3854 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3855 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3856 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3858 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3859 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3860 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3862 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3863 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3864 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3865 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3867 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3869 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3871 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3872 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3873 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3874 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3875 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3877 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3879 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3880 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3881 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3884 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3886 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3888 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3890 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3892 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3894 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3895 no_callout_flush is set.
3897 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3898 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3899 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3902 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3904 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3905 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3906 other ACL rejections are.
3908 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3909 with slight modification.
3911 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3912 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3914 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3915 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3918 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3919 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3921 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3923 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3924 expansion side effects.
3926 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3927 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3928 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3931 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3932 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3933 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3935 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3936 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3937 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3938 were accidentally chopped off.
3940 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3941 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3942 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3943 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3944 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3945 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3946 pipelining has not been advertised.
3948 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3950 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3951 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3952 This has been fixed.
3954 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3955 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3956 reported on Solaris.
3958 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3959 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3960 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3961 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3962 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3963 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3964 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3966 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3969 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3971 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3973 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3974 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3975 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3976 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3977 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3978 criteria to be more general.
3980 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3981 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3982 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3983 host_all_ignored option.
3985 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3986 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3987 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3988 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3989 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3990 is what is supposed to happen).
3992 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3993 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3994 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3995 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3996 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3999 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
4000 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
4001 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
4002 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
4003 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
4004 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
4007 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4009 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
4010 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
4012 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
4013 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
4015 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
4017 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4019 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
4020 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
4021 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
4022 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
4023 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
4024 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
4025 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
4026 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
4027 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
4028 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
4029 least in a lot of common cases.
4031 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
4032 advertised in response to EHLO.
4038 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
4039 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
4041 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
4042 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
4044 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
4045 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
4046 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
4048 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
4049 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
4050 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
4051 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
4052 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
4058 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
4059 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
4062 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
4063 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
4064 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
4066 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
4067 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
4068 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
4069 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
4070 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
4071 rather than extend the field.
4077 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
4078 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
4079 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
4080 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
4083 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
4084 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
4085 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
4087 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
4088 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
4089 hence the _LINUX specificness.
4091 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
4092 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
4093 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
4096 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
4097 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
4098 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
4099 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
4100 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
4101 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
4102 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
4103 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
4104 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
4105 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
4106 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
4108 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
4111 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
4112 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
4113 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
4114 ignores EPIPE as well.
4116 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
4117 (quoted-printable decoding).
4119 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4120 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4122 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4124 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4126 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4128 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4129 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4131 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4134 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4135 miscellaneous code fixes
4137 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4140 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4141 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4142 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4143 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4144 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4145 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4146 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4147 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4149 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4150 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4151 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4152 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4154 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4155 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4156 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4157 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4158 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4159 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4160 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4161 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4162 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4164 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4167 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4168 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4169 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4170 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4171 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4172 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4173 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4174 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4176 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4177 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4180 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4181 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4182 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4183 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4184 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4185 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4186 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4187 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4188 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4189 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4190 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4191 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4192 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4194 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4195 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4196 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4197 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4198 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4199 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4200 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4202 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4203 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4204 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4205 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4206 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4207 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4208 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4209 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4210 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4211 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4213 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4214 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4215 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4216 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4217 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4219 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4220 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4221 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4222 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4223 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4224 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4225 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4227 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4228 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4229 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4230 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4231 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4232 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4235 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4236 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4237 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4240 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4241 if any retry times were supplied.
4243 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4244 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4245 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4247 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4249 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4251 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4252 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4253 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4254 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4255 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4256 before) are ignored.
4258 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4259 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4261 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4262 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4263 committing the later change.]
4265 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4266 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4267 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4268 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4269 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4270 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4271 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4272 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4273 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4275 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4276 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4277 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4278 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4279 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4280 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4281 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4282 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4283 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4285 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4286 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4287 hammering the server.
4289 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4290 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4292 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4294 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4295 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4296 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4298 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4299 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4300 one case where this was not true.
4302 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4303 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4304 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4305 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4308 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4309 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4310 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4311 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4312 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4313 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4314 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4315 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4316 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4319 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4320 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4321 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4322 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4324 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4325 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4327 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4328 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4329 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4331 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4333 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4335 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4337 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4338 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4339 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4340 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4342 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4343 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4345 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4346 be meaningful with "accept".
4348 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4349 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4351 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4352 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4353 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4355 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4356 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4357 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4358 there is data to show.
4359 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4361 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4362 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4363 as well as the number of messages.
4365 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4366 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4367 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4369 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4370 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4371 have a flag are now skipped.
4373 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4374 Added the -emptyok flag.
4376 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4377 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4379 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4380 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4381 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4383 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4386 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4387 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4389 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4391 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4392 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4394 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4396 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4397 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4398 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4399 contravention of the specifications.
4401 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4402 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4403 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4405 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4406 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4407 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4409 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4411 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4412 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4413 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4414 some point in the past.
4416 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4417 transport during callout processing was broken.
4419 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4420 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4422 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4423 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4425 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4426 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4428 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4434 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4435 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4437 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4438 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4439 there is data to show.
4440 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4442 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4443 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4445 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4446 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4448 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4449 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4451 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4452 submissions from trusted users.
4454 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4455 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4457 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4458 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4459 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4460 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4461 there is now a framework to start from.
4463 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4464 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4465 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4467 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4469 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4471 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4473 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4474 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4475 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4477 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4480 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4481 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4482 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4484 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4485 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4486 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4489 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4490 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4491 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4492 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4493 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4495 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4496 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4498 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4500 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4501 operations in malware.c.
4503 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4506 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4507 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4508 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4511 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4512 statements to "add_header".
4514 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4515 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4517 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4518 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4521 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4525 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4526 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4527 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4530 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4531 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4533 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4534 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4536 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4537 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4538 any possible encoding problems.
4540 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4541 but not after initializing Perl.
4543 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4544 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4545 apparently, which is not desirable.
4547 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4550 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4553 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4555 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4556 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4557 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4558 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4560 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4561 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4562 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4564 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4565 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4566 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4569 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4570 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4571 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4572 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4573 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4579 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4580 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4582 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4585 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4586 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4587 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4588 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4589 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4590 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4591 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4592 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4595 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4597 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4598 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4599 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4601 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4602 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4603 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4606 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4607 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4609 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4610 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4611 option (which defaults to 0600).
4613 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4615 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4616 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4617 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4618 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4619 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4620 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4621 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4623 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4629 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4630 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4631 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4632 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4633 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4634 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4637 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4638 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4640 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4642 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4643 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4644 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4645 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4646 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4649 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4650 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4652 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4653 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4654 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4655 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4656 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4658 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4659 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4660 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4661 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4663 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4664 be the same on different OS.
4666 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4669 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4670 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4672 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4675 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4676 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4677 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4678 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4679 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4680 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4683 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4684 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4685 when Exim was called.
4687 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4688 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4690 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4691 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4692 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4693 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4695 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4696 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4697 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4698 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4701 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4702 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4703 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4705 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4706 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4707 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4709 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4712 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4713 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4714 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4715 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4716 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4717 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4718 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4719 values from the SRV records were lost.
4721 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4722 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4723 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4725 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4726 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4727 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4729 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4730 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4731 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4732 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4733 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4734 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4735 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4736 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4737 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4738 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4740 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4741 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4742 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4744 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4745 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4747 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4748 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4749 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4750 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4753 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4754 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4755 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4757 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4758 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4759 PH/23 above applies.
4761 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4762 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4763 (for which there is an explicit test).
4765 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4767 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4768 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4769 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4770 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4771 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4773 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4774 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4775 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4776 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4778 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4779 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4780 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4782 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4784 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4786 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4787 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4788 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4790 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4791 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4792 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4793 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4794 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4796 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4797 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4798 the message gets confusing).
4800 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4801 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4802 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4803 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4805 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4806 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4807 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4808 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4811 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4812 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4813 the different processes.
4815 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4817 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4819 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4820 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4822 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4823 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4825 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4826 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4827 messages matching specified criteria.
4829 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4831 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4832 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4834 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4835 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4836 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4837 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4838 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4839 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4840 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4841 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4842 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4843 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4845 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4846 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4847 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4849 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4851 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4852 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4853 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4854 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4855 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4856 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4857 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4860 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4861 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4863 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4865 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4867 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4869 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4870 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4871 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4872 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4873 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4874 size of the count of files.
4876 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4878 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4881 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4882 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4883 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4884 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4886 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4887 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4888 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4890 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4891 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4892 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4893 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4894 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4896 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4897 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4899 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4900 will now be deprecated.
4902 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4904 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4905 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4906 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4908 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4909 with very large, slow to parse queues
4911 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4913 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4915 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4916 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4917 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4920 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4921 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4922 Sieve code now uses this.
4924 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4925 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4927 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4928 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4930 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4932 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4933 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4934 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4935 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4936 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4938 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4939 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4940 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4941 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4943 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4945 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4947 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4948 is preferred over IPv4.
4950 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4951 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4952 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4953 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4954 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4955 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4956 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4958 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4959 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4960 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4962 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4964 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4965 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4966 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4967 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4968 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4969 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4970 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4971 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4972 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4973 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4974 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4976 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4977 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4978 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4984 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4986 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4987 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4989 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4990 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4991 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4993 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4995 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4998 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
5001 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
5002 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
5003 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
5006 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
5007 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
5009 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
5010 inside the third argument.
5012 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
5013 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
5016 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
5017 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
5019 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
5020 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
5022 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
5024 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
5025 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
5028 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
5030 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
5031 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
5032 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
5033 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
5034 identical. For example:
5036 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
5038 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
5039 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
5040 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
5042 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
5043 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
5044 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
5045 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
5047 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
5048 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
5049 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
5052 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
5054 o fixes some comments
5055 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
5056 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
5057 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
5058 and documents the missing references header update
5062 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
5063 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
5066 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
5067 Electronic Mail") by including:
5069 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
5071 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
5072 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
5073 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
5074 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
5075 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
5077 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5079 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
5081 The auto-replied keyword:
5083 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
5084 message by an automatic process,
5086 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
5088 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
5089 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
5091 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
5092 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
5095 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
5096 to the default Received: header definition.
5098 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
5100 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
5101 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
5102 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
5104 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
5105 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
5106 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
5108 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
5109 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
5110 and treats the condition as false.
5112 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
5114 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
5115 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
5116 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
5117 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
5118 not changing the active code.
5120 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5121 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5123 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5124 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5126 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5129 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5130 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5131 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5132 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5133 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5134 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5135 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5136 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5137 the text comparison.
5139 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5140 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5141 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5142 The same fix has been applied.
5148 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5149 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5152 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5153 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5155 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5157 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5158 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5159 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5160 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5161 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5163 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5164 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5165 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5166 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5169 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5177 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5178 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5180 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5182 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5184 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5185 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5186 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5188 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5189 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5190 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5192 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5193 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5196 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5197 ${stat: expansion item.
5199 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5200 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5202 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5203 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5206 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5208 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5211 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5212 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5214 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5216 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5217 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5218 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5219 the end of the subprocess.
5221 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5222 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5223 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5224 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5225 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5227 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5229 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5231 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5232 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5234 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5236 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5238 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5239 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5242 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5244 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5245 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5246 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5248 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5249 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5251 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5252 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5254 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5255 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5257 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5258 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5260 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5261 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5262 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5263 contributed by a Radius user.
5265 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5266 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5268 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5269 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5271 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5274 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5275 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5278 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5279 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5280 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5281 header lines when this was not necessary.
5283 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5285 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5286 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5287 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5290 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5293 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5294 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5295 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5296 return code was incorrect.
5298 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5300 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5302 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5304 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5306 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5307 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5308 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5309 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5310 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5313 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5315 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5316 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5317 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5318 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5319 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5320 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5321 which is clearly wrong.
5323 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5325 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5326 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5327 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5330 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5331 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5333 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5335 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5336 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5338 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5339 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5341 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5342 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5344 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5345 recipients, not senders.
5347 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5348 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5350 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5352 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5354 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5355 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5356 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5357 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5359 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5361 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5362 clock is set back in time.
5364 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5365 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5367 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5368 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5370 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5371 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5374 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5375 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5378 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5381 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5383 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5384 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5385 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5387 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5388 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5389 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5390 helo verification defer as a failure.
5392 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5393 actual error message.
5399 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5401 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5402 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5403 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5404 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5406 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5408 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5409 can still be requested.
5411 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5412 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5413 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5414 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5416 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5417 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5418 circumstances, but probably never did.
5420 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5421 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5422 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5425 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5427 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5428 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5430 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5432 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5434 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5435 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5436 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5437 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5438 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5439 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5441 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5442 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5443 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5444 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5445 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5446 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5448 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5449 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5451 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5452 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5454 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5455 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5457 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5459 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5461 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5463 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5465 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5467 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5469 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5471 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5472 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5473 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5475 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5476 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5477 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5478 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5480 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5481 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5482 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5484 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5485 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5486 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5487 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5489 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5490 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5493 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5494 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5495 should work with maildirs and everything.
5497 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5498 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5500 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5503 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5504 function for BDB 4.3.
5506 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5508 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5509 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5512 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5513 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5514 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5515 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5516 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5517 formatting function string_vformat().
5519 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5520 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5521 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5522 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5523 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5524 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5525 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5526 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5528 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5529 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5532 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5533 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5535 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5536 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5537 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5538 test. It is now used for both.
5540 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5541 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5542 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5543 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5544 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5545 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5547 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5548 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5549 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5552 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5553 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5554 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5556 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5557 experimental DomainKeys support:
5559 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5560 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5561 the control was given.
5563 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5565 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5567 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5569 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5570 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5571 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5574 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5575 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5576 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5577 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5578 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5579 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5582 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5583 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5584 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5585 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5586 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5587 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5589 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5590 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5591 do -d+all out of habit.
5593 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5594 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5597 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5598 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5599 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5600 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5601 record types that Exim uses.
5603 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5604 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5605 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5606 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5607 non-existent file that was broken.
5609 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5610 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5612 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5613 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5614 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5616 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5618 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5619 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5620 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5621 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5622 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5625 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5626 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5627 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5628 at a slight CPU cost.
5630 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5631 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5633 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5636 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5638 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5639 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5645 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5646 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5648 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5650 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5652 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5653 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5655 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5656 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5657 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5658 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5659 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5660 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5663 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5664 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5665 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5666 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5669 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5670 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5671 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5672 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5673 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5674 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5675 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5678 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5679 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5681 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5682 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5683 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5684 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5685 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5686 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5688 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5689 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5690 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5691 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5693 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5696 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5697 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5699 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5700 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5701 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5702 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5705 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5707 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5708 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5710 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5711 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5712 to what was transported.)
5714 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5716 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5717 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5718 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5719 spamd_address settings.
5721 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5722 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5723 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5724 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5725 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5727 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5729 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5730 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5731 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5732 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5733 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5735 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5736 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5738 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5739 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5740 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5741 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5742 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5743 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5744 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5747 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5748 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5749 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5750 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5751 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5752 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5753 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5756 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5758 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5759 driver and ACL definitions.
5761 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5762 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5764 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5765 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5766 understands it better than I do:
5768 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5769 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5771 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5772 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5773 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5774 => three warnings about OTP not working
5775 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5777 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5778 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5779 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5780 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5782 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5783 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5785 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5786 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5787 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5789 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5790 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5793 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5794 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5797 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5798 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5799 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5801 warn !verify = sender
5802 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5804 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5805 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5807 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5809 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5810 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5812 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5813 nomenclature these days.)
5815 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5816 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5818 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5819 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5820 . First host does not offer TLS;
5821 . First host accepts first address;
5822 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5823 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5824 . Second host accepts second address.
5825 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5826 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5829 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5830 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5831 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5832 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5833 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5835 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5836 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5838 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5839 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5841 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5842 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5843 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5845 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5846 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5849 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5851 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5852 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5853 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5854 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5855 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5856 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5857 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5859 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5860 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5861 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5862 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5863 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5865 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5866 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5869 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5870 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5871 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5872 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5873 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5874 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5876 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5878 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5879 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5880 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5881 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5882 printable escape sequences.
5884 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5885 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5888 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5889 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5892 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5893 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5894 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5895 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5896 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5898 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5899 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5900 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5902 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5904 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5905 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5908 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5909 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5910 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5911 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5912 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5913 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5914 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5915 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5916 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5919 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5920 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5921 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5922 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5926 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5927 ----------------------------------------
5929 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5930 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5931 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5932 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5933 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5934 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5937 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5938 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5939 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5940 historical information.
5946 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5948 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5949 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5951 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5952 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5955 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5956 filter fails to execute.
5958 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5959 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5960 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5961 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5962 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5964 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5966 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5967 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5968 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5969 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5971 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5972 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5973 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5974 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5975 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5977 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5979 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5981 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5982 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5983 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5984 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5986 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5987 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5988 sender verification.
5990 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5991 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5993 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5995 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5998 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5999 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6001 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6002 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6004 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
6005 information about exactly what failed.
6007 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
6009 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
6010 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
6011 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
6013 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
6014 It is now set to "smtps".
6016 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6017 ignore_target_hosts.
6019 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6020 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6021 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6022 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6025 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6026 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6027 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6029 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6030 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6031 wake it up if nothing else does.
6033 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6034 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6035 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6038 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6039 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6041 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
6043 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
6044 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
6045 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
6046 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
6047 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
6048 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
6049 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
6050 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
6052 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
6053 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
6054 than one IP address.
6056 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
6057 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
6058 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
6059 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
6061 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6062 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6063 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6064 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6065 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6068 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
6069 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
6070 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
6071 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
6073 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6074 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6077 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6078 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6079 $sender_host_address.
6081 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
6082 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
6083 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
6084 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
6085 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
6088 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
6090 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
6091 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
6093 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
6094 just the host names, not the priorities.
6096 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
6097 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
6098 controlled by a keyword.
6100 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
6101 multiple records are returned.
6103 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
6104 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
6107 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
6109 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
6110 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
6112 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6113 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6114 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6116 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
6118 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6120 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6122 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6123 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6124 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6125 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6126 because the tests only now provoked it.
6128 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6129 (this can affect the format of dates).
6131 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6132 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6133 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6134 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6136 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6138 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6139 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6140 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6141 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6143 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6144 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6145 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6147 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6150 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6151 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6152 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6153 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6154 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6155 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6158 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6159 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6160 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6163 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6164 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6165 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6167 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6168 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6169 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6170 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6171 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6172 so I produce this patch..."
6174 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6175 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6178 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6179 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6180 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6181 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6184 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6186 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6187 long debug lines gets shown.
6189 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6190 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6192 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6194 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6195 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6196 of $primary_hostname.
6198 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6199 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6200 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6201 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6202 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6203 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6204 by change 4.50/55 above.
6206 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6207 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6208 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6209 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6210 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6211 running as the user.
6214 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6215 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6216 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6219 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6220 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6222 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6223 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6224 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6225 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6226 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6228 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6229 This has been fixed.
6231 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6232 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6233 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6234 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6237 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6239 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6240 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6241 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6242 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6244 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6245 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6247 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6248 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6249 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6251 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6252 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6253 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6256 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6257 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6258 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6260 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6261 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6262 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6263 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6265 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6266 during host lookups.
6268 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6269 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6271 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6273 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6274 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6275 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6276 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6277 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6280 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6281 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6283 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6284 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6285 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6287 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6289 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6290 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6291 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6292 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6293 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6294 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6297 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6298 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6299 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6300 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6301 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6303 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6306 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6308 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6309 "vacation" handling.
6311 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6312 OS variants using glibc.
6314 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6317 ----------------------------------------------------
6318 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6319 ----------------------------------------------------
6325 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6326 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6329 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6330 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6333 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6334 filter fails to execute.
6336 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6337 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6338 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6339 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6340 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6342 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6343 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6344 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6345 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6347 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6348 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6349 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6350 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6351 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6353 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6355 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6356 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6357 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6358 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6360 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6361 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6362 sender verification.
6364 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6365 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6367 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6368 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6370 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6371 ignore_target_hosts.
6373 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6374 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6375 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6376 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6379 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6380 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6381 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6383 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6384 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6385 wake it up if nothing else does.
6387 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6388 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6389 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6392 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6393 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6395 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6397 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6398 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6401 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6402 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6405 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6406 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6407 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6408 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6409 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6412 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6413 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6416 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6417 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6418 $sender_host_address.
6420 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6422 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6423 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6424 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6426 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6429 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6430 (this can affect the format of dates).
6432 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6433 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6434 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6435 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6437 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6438 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6439 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6441 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6442 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6443 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6444 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6446 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6447 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6448 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6450 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6453 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6454 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6455 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6456 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6457 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6458 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6461 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6462 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6463 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6464 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6467 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6468 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6469 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6470 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6471 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6472 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6473 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6475 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6476 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6477 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6478 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6479 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6480 running as the user.
6483 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6484 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6485 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6488 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6489 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6490 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6491 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6492 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6494 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6495 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6496 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6497 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6500 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6501 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6502 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6503 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6504 because the tests only now provoked it.
6510 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6511 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6512 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6513 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6514 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6515 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6516 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6518 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6519 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6522 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6524 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6526 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6527 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6530 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6531 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6532 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6533 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6534 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6536 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6537 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6539 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6541 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6543 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6546 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6547 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6549 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6550 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6551 affecting debugging statements).
6553 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6555 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6556 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6557 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6558 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6559 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6560 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6561 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6562 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6563 after the received time, and all would be well.
6565 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6566 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6567 condition in an expansion string.
6569 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6571 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6572 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6573 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6574 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6575 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6576 job under whatever limits there are.
6578 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6580 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6583 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6584 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6585 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6586 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6589 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6590 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6591 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6592 binary data in such strings.
6594 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6596 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6597 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6598 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6599 failure, which is pointless.
6601 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6603 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6605 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6606 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6607 Sender: header lines.
6609 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6610 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6611 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6613 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6614 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6615 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6616 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6617 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6620 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6621 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6622 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6623 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6624 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6626 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6627 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6628 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6631 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6632 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6634 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6635 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6637 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6639 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6641 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6643 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6646 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6648 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6650 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6651 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6652 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6653 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6655 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6656 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6662 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6663 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6664 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6666 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6667 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6668 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6669 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6670 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6671 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6673 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6674 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6675 verification failure".
6677 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6678 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6679 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6680 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6682 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6683 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6684 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6685 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6686 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6687 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6688 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6689 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6690 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6691 treated as a timeout.
6693 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6694 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6695 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6696 not set for Exim filters).
6698 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6699 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6700 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6702 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6704 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6705 try to make them clearer.
6707 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6708 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6710 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6712 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6714 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6715 only the Cygwin environment.
6717 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6718 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6719 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6720 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6721 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6723 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6724 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6725 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6726 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6727 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6728 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6729 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6731 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6732 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6734 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6736 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6737 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6738 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6740 To: susanne@some.where
6742 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6743 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6744 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6745 of addresses in From: header lines).
6747 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6748 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6749 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6751 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6752 treated as non-personal.
6754 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6755 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6757 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6759 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6761 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6762 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6763 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6765 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6766 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6768 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6769 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6770 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6771 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6772 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6773 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6775 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6776 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6777 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6778 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6779 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6780 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6781 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6782 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6784 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6786 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6787 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6789 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6790 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6791 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6793 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6794 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6796 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6797 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6798 rather than long int.
6800 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6802 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6808 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6809 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6810 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6811 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6812 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6813 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6819 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6820 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6822 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6823 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6824 socklen_t is defined.
6826 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6829 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6832 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6833 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6834 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6835 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6836 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6838 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6839 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6840 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6841 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6843 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6844 of flapping under certain conditions.
6846 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6847 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6848 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6850 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6852 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6854 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6855 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6856 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6857 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6859 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6860 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6861 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6862 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6863 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6864 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6865 preserved with the message after it was received.
6867 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6868 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6869 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6870 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6871 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6872 test suite worked just fine.
6874 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6875 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6876 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6878 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6879 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6882 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6883 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6884 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6885 does not fully solve it.
6887 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6888 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6889 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6890 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6891 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6893 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6894 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6895 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6897 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6898 string, for example:
6900 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6902 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6903 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6904 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6905 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6906 the routers could not see them.
6908 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6909 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6911 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6912 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6915 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6916 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6917 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6918 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6919 that needed quoting.
6921 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6922 was not being matched caselessly.
6924 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6927 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6928 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6929 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6930 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6931 when use_sender is false.
6933 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6935 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6937 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6939 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6940 the configuration file.
6942 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6943 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6945 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6947 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6948 bytes in the message body.
6950 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6951 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6954 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6956 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6958 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6959 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6960 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6961 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6968 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6969 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6971 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6972 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6973 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6974 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6975 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6977 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6978 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6980 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6981 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6982 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6984 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6985 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6986 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6988 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6991 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6992 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6993 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6994 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6995 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6996 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6997 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
7003 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
7004 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
7005 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
7006 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
7007 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
7008 default (and expected) setting.
7010 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
7011 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
7012 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
7013 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
7015 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
7016 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
7018 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
7021 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
7022 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
7023 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
7024 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
7025 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
7026 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
7028 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
7029 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
7030 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
7032 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
7033 part (NOT match_host).
7035 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
7037 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
7038 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
7039 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
7040 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
7041 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
7042 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
7043 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
7044 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
7045 the same named file.
7047 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
7048 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
7051 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
7052 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
7053 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
7054 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
7057 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
7058 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
7059 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
7061 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
7063 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
7065 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
7067 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
7068 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
7070 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
7071 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
7072 before starting the TLS session.
7074 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
7076 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
7077 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
7079 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
7080 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
7081 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
7082 colon in the middle).
7088 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
7089 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
7090 multiple configurations are in use.
7092 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
7093 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
7094 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
7095 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
7096 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
7097 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
7099 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
7100 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
7102 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
7103 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
7104 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
7106 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
7107 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
7110 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
7111 that used bh_ and bheader_.
7113 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
7115 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
7116 allowing one more file than it should have been.
7118 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7126 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7127 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7128 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7129 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7130 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7132 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7135 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7136 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7137 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7138 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7139 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7140 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7142 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7143 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7144 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7145 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7146 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7147 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7148 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7151 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7152 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7153 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7154 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7155 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7157 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7159 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7160 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7161 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7163 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7165 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7166 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7167 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7170 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7171 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7173 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7174 Three changes have been made:
7176 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7177 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7178 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7179 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7180 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7182 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7185 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7186 the modified behaviour.
7192 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7195 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7196 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7198 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7199 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7200 try to track down a specific problem.
7202 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7203 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7204 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7206 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7209 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7210 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7211 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7212 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7213 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7214 some earlier ones do not.
7216 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7218 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7219 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7220 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7221 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7222 address literals are enabled, of course).
7224 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7226 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7227 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7228 by a command such as
7232 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7234 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7236 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7237 remained set. It is now erased.
7239 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7240 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7242 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7243 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7244 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7245 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7246 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7247 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7248 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7249 appropriate error code.
7251 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7252 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7253 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7254 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7255 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7256 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7258 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7259 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7260 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7262 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7263 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7264 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7265 terminate the header.
7267 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7268 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7269 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7271 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7272 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7273 (4.30/29). In particular:
7275 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7278 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7279 to write a maildirsize file.
7281 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7282 the transport, the new value overrides.
7284 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7287 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7288 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7289 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7292 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7293 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7294 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7297 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7298 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7299 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7301 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7302 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7305 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7306 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7307 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7309 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7311 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7313 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7315 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7316 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7319 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7320 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7321 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7322 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7323 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7324 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7325 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7328 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7329 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7330 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7331 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7332 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7335 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7336 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7337 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7338 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7339 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7340 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7341 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7342 cached value only when the same options are set.
7344 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7346 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7347 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7348 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7349 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7350 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7352 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7353 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7354 it is clearly obsolete.
7356 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7359 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7360 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7361 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7364 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7365 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7366 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7367 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7368 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7370 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7371 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7372 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7373 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7375 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7377 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7379 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7380 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7383 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7384 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7385 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7386 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7387 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7388 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7391 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7392 with the -f command-line option.
7394 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7395 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7396 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7397 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7398 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7399 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7401 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7402 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7405 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7406 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7407 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7408 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7409 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7410 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7411 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7412 buffer is too small.
7414 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7415 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7417 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7418 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7419 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7420 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7421 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7422 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7423 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7424 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7425 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7427 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7428 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7429 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7431 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7432 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7435 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7436 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7437 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7438 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7439 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7441 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7442 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7443 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7444 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7447 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7449 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7451 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7452 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7454 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7455 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7456 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7458 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7459 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7460 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7461 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7462 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7464 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7465 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7466 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7467 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7468 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7469 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7470 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7472 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7473 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7474 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7475 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7476 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7477 the test of how many are available.
7479 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7480 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7481 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7482 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7483 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7484 new message is started.
7486 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7487 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7489 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7490 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7492 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7493 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7494 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7497 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7498 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7499 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7500 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7501 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7502 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7503 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7505 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7506 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7507 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7508 interpreted as octal.
7510 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7513 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7514 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7515 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7516 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7517 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7518 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7520 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7521 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7522 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7523 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7525 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7526 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7527 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7528 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7530 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7531 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7534 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7535 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7537 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7539 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7540 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7541 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7542 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7544 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7545 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7546 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7547 supplied", which is not helpful.
7549 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7550 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7551 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7553 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7554 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7555 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7556 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7557 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7558 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7559 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7560 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7562 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7563 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7564 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7565 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7566 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7568 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7569 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7570 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7571 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7572 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7573 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7575 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7576 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7577 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7579 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7581 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7582 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7583 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7586 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7588 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7589 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7590 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7591 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7592 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7593 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7594 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7595 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7597 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7598 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7599 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7600 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7601 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7603 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7606 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7607 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7608 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7609 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7610 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7611 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7612 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7613 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7614 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7620 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7621 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7622 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7624 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7627 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7628 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7629 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7631 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7632 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7633 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7634 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7635 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7636 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7638 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7639 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7640 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7641 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7642 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7643 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7644 the Exim test suite.
7646 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7647 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7648 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7649 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7651 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7652 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7653 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7654 specify it in this variable.
7656 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7657 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7658 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7659 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7661 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7662 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7663 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7664 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7666 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7667 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7668 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7669 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7670 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7672 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7674 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7677 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7678 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7679 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7680 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7681 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7683 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7684 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7686 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7687 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7688 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7689 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7690 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7692 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7693 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7695 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7696 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7697 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7699 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7700 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7702 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7703 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7705 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7706 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7707 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7709 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7710 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7712 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7713 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7714 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7715 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7717 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7719 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7720 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7721 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7722 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7724 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7726 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7727 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7729 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7731 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7732 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7733 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7734 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7735 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7736 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7738 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7740 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7741 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7744 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7746 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7747 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7749 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7750 550 Sender verify failed
7752 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7753 the final line of the response.
7755 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7756 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7757 all other user lookups.
7759 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7762 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7763 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7764 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7765 result into an int without checking.
7767 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7768 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7769 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7771 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7772 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7773 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7774 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7776 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7779 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7780 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7782 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7783 to the empty sender.
7785 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7786 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7787 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7788 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7789 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7790 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7791 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7794 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7795 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7796 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7797 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7800 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7801 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7803 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7806 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7807 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7809 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7811 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7812 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7815 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7816 as soon as it is encountered.
7818 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7820 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7823 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7824 recognizes a tab character.
7826 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7827 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7828 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7829 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7831 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7833 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7836 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7838 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7840 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7841 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7844 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7845 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7846 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7847 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7848 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7850 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7851 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7853 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7854 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7855 list (.included file names were always shown).
7857 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7858 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7859 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7862 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7863 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7865 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7867 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7869 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7871 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7872 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7873 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7874 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7875 failures to open the logs.
7877 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7878 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7879 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7880 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7881 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7882 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7883 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7889 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7890 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7891 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7894 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7895 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7896 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7898 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7899 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7900 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7902 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7903 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7904 causing some misleading effects.
7906 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7907 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7908 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7910 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7911 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7912 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7913 queue-runner function directly.
7919 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7922 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7923 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7924 was always written to the default place.
7926 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7927 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7928 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7930 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7932 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7934 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7935 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7936 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7938 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7939 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7942 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7943 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7944 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7946 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7947 command line option is disabled.
7949 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7950 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7952 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7954 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7956 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7957 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7959 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7961 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7962 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7963 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7964 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7965 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7966 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7968 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7969 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7972 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7973 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7975 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7976 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7978 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7979 received was valid base64.
7981 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7982 name of the variable that was being set.
7984 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7986 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7987 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7988 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7989 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7990 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7991 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7993 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7995 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7996 nor realm was specified.
7998 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7999 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
8000 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
8001 errors are given to SMTP connections.
8003 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
8004 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
8005 failing to send a response to QUIT.
8007 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
8008 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
8009 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
8011 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
8012 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
8013 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
8014 some systems use these upper case variants.
8016 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
8017 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
8018 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
8019 socket" when it tried to send the third.
8021 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
8023 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
8024 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
8026 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
8027 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
8030 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
8032 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
8033 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
8034 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
8035 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
8037 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
8040 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
8041 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
8042 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
8044 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
8045 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
8047 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
8048 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
8049 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
8050 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
8052 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
8053 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
8054 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
8056 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
8058 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
8059 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
8060 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
8061 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
8064 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
8065 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
8066 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
8068 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
8070 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
8071 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
8073 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
8074 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
8076 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
8077 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
8078 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
8079 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
8080 when emails are that large.
8087 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
8088 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
8090 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
8091 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
8092 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
8094 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
8095 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
8096 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
8098 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
8099 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
8100 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
8101 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
8102 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
8104 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
8105 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
8106 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
8107 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
8108 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
8111 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
8112 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
8113 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
8114 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
8115 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
8116 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
8117 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
8118 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8119 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8120 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8121 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8122 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8123 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8124 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8126 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8127 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8130 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8131 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8132 error should be diagnosed.
8134 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8135 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8136 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8137 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8138 appeared instead of "NULL".
8140 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8141 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8142 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8143 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8144 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8145 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8148 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8149 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8150 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8156 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8157 or receiver verification errors.
8159 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8162 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8163 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8164 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8165 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8167 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8168 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8169 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8170 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8171 shouldn't happen again.
8173 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8174 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8175 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8177 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8178 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8180 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8182 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8183 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8185 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8186 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8189 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8190 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8191 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8193 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8194 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8195 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8196 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8198 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8199 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8200 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8201 to define what should happen).
8203 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8204 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8205 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8207 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8209 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8211 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8212 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8214 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8215 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8216 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8217 structure in all cases.
8219 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8220 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8221 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8222 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8224 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8225 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8228 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8229 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8231 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8232 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8234 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8235 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8236 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8238 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8239 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8240 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8242 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8243 the book and for uniformity.
8245 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8247 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8248 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8249 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8250 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8251 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8252 non-existent command as the problem.
8254 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8255 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8256 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8258 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8260 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8261 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8262 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8264 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8265 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8266 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8267 timestamps using strftime().
8269 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8270 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8272 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8273 transport-time rewrites.
8275 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8276 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8277 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8278 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8280 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8281 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8283 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8284 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8285 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8286 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8289 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8290 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8291 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8292 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8293 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8294 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8295 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8297 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8298 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8299 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8300 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8301 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8303 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8304 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8305 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8306 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8307 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8308 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8309 remaining text gets split now.
8311 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8312 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8313 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8314 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8316 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8317 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8318 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8319 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8322 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8323 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8324 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8325 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8326 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8327 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8328 passed through if needed.
8330 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8331 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8332 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8333 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8334 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8335 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8337 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8338 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8339 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8340 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8341 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8343 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8344 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8345 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8346 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8347 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8349 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8350 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8353 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8354 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8355 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8356 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8357 mayhem of various kinds.
8359 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8360 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8361 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8362 the right test for positive values.
8364 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8365 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8366 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8367 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8368 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8369 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8370 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8371 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8372 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8373 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8376 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8379 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8380 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8383 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8384 the existing equality matching.
8386 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8387 dealing with inode numbers.
8389 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8390 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8391 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8393 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8394 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8395 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8396 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8399 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8400 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8401 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8402 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8403 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8404 relay addresses has also been removed.
8406 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8408 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8409 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8410 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8412 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8413 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8414 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8415 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8416 processing applies to CR:
8418 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8419 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8421 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8422 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8423 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8424 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8426 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8427 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8428 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8430 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8431 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8432 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8433 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8434 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8435 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8438 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8441 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8442 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8443 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8444 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8447 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8449 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8451 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8453 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8454 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8455 not considered personal.
8457 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8459 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8461 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8463 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8464 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8465 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8466 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8467 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8468 header lines, and spool format errors.
8470 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8471 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8472 for more flexibility.
8474 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8475 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8476 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8478 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8481 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8482 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8483 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8484 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8485 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8486 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8487 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8488 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8489 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8491 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8492 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8493 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8494 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8495 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8496 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8497 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8499 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8500 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8501 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8503 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8504 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8505 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8506 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8507 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8508 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8509 instead of killing the process with assert().
8511 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8512 than Unicode encoding.
8514 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8515 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8516 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8517 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8519 77. Added process_log_path.
8521 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8522 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8524 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8525 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8527 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8528 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8529 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8531 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8532 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8533 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8534 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8535 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8538 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8539 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8542 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8543 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8544 they will be used during message reception.
8550 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.