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
61 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
62 SMTP connection" log lines.
64 JH/02 Option default value updates:
65 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
66 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
68 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
70 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
71 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
72 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
74 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
75 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
76 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
79 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
80 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
82 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
83 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
84 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
86 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
87 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
88 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
89 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
90 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
92 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
93 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
96 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
97 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
99 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
100 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
101 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
103 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
104 API changes in libopendmarc.
106 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
107 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
108 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
110 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
111 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
113 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
114 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
115 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
118 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
119 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
122 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
123 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
124 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
125 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
126 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
127 is strictly an incompatible change.
128 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
129 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
131 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
132 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
133 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
134 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
137 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
138 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
139 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
140 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
142 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
143 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
144 itself returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
145 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
146 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
147 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
150 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
151 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
154 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
155 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
156 to not checking that list for these lookups.
158 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
161 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
162 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
163 was done, killing the process.
165 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
166 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
167 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
170 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
171 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
172 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
173 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
175 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
176 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
178 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
181 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
182 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
183 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
184 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
185 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
186 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
187 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
189 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
190 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
191 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
192 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
193 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
194 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
195 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
196 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
197 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
198 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
200 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
201 usable until about year 3700.
202 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
203 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
204 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
205 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
206 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
207 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
208 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
209 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
210 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
211 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
212 wait- hints databases.
214 JH/30 Bug 3006: Fix handling of JSON strings having embedded commas. Previously
215 we treated them as item separators when parsing for a list item, but they
216 need to be protected by the doublequotes. While there, add handling for
219 JH/31 Bug 2998: Fix ${utf8clean:...} to disallow UTF-16 surrogate codepoints.
220 Found and fixed by Jasen Betts. No testcase for this as my usual text
221 editor insists on emitting only valid UTF-8.
223 JH/32 Fix "tls_dhparam = none" under GnuTLS. At least with 3.7.9 this gave
224 a null-indirection SIGSEGV for the receive process.
226 JH/33 Fix free for live variable $value created by a ${run ...} expansion during
227 -bh use. Internal checking would spot this and take a panic.
229 JH/34 Bug 3013: Fix use of $recipients within arguments for ${run...}.
230 In 4.96 this would expand to empty.
232 JH/35 Bug 3014: GnuTLS: fix expiry date for an auto-generated server
233 certificate. Find and fix by Andreas Metzler.
235 JH/36 Add ARC info to DMARC hostory records.
237 JH/37 Bug 3016: Avoid sending DSN when message was accepted under fakereject
238 or fakedefer. Previously the sender could discover that the message
239 had in fact been accepted.
241 JH/38 Taint-track intermediate values from the peer in multi-stage authentation
242 sequences. Previously the input was not noted as being tainted; notably
243 this resulted in behaviour of LOGIN vs. PLAIN being inconsistent under
244 bad coding of authenticators.
246 JH/39 Bug 3023: Fix crash induced by some combinations of zero-length strings
247 and ${tr...}. Found and diagnosed by Heiko Schlichting.
249 JH/40 Bug 2999: Fix a possible OOB write in the external authenticator, which
250 could be triggered by externally-supplied input. Found by Trend Micro.
253 JH/41 Bug 3000: Fix a possible OOB write in the SPA authenticator, which could
254 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
257 JH/42 Bug 3001: Fix a possible OOB read in the SPA authenticator, which could
258 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
261 JH/43 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
262 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
263 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
265 JH/44 Bug 3033: Harden dnsdb lookups against crafted DNS responses.
268 HS/02 Fix string_is_ip_address() CVE-2023-42117 (Bug 3031)
274 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
275 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
276 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
279 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
280 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
282 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
283 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
284 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
285 not be modified by local-scan code.
287 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
288 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
290 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
291 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
294 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
295 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
297 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
298 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
301 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
302 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
303 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
305 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
306 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
307 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
309 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
310 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
311 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
312 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
313 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
314 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
315 Assorted crashes happen.
317 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
318 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
319 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
322 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
323 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
324 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
325 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
327 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
328 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
329 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
332 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
334 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
335 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
338 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
339 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
340 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
342 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
343 result of expansion operators and items.
345 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
346 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
347 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
348 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
350 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
352 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
353 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
354 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
355 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
358 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
359 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
361 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
362 Previously only the domain part was returned.
364 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
365 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
366 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
367 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
369 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
370 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
371 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
372 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
374 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
375 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
376 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
377 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
378 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
381 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
382 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
383 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
385 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
386 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
387 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
388 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
390 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
391 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
392 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
393 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
395 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
396 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
397 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
398 Previously only the server IP was used.
400 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
401 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
402 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
403 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
405 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
406 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
407 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
409 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
410 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
411 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
414 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
415 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
417 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
418 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
424 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
425 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
426 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
428 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
429 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
430 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
431 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
433 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
434 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
435 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
436 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
437 so could be handling tainted values.
439 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
440 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
441 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
443 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
444 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
445 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
448 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
449 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
450 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
451 to align better with RFC 6125.
453 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
454 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
455 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
456 by adding a release action in that path.
458 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
459 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
460 dynamically-created buffers.
462 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
463 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
464 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
465 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
467 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
468 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
469 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
470 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
472 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
473 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
474 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
476 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
477 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
478 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
479 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
481 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
482 excluded, not matching the documentation.
484 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
485 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
487 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
488 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
489 this was a coding error.
491 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
492 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
493 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
494 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
495 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
496 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
497 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
499 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
500 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
501 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
502 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
504 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
505 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
506 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
507 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
508 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
510 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
511 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
514 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
515 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
516 domain-parking registrar.
518 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
519 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
520 after removing the newline.
522 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
523 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
524 option set, which was previously used.
526 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
529 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
530 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
531 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
532 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
534 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
535 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
536 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
537 exim.dev.20160529.3).
539 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
540 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
541 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
543 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
544 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
545 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
548 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
549 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
550 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
552 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
553 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
554 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
555 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
558 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
559 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
560 there, handle PRX and TFO.
562 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
563 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
564 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
565 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
566 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
568 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
569 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
570 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
571 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
574 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
575 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
577 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
580 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
581 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
582 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
583 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
584 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
586 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
588 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
589 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
590 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
591 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
592 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
593 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
595 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
596 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
598 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
599 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
600 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
602 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
603 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
606 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
607 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
608 of a new variable: $auth4.
610 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
611 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
612 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
613 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
614 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
616 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
617 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
618 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
619 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
621 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
622 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
623 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
625 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
626 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
627 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
628 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
631 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
632 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
633 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
636 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
637 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
638 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
639 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
641 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
642 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
644 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
645 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
646 looked as if if might be one.
648 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
649 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
650 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
651 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
652 messages can show the proxy information.
654 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
655 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
656 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
657 "queue_time_exclusive".
659 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
660 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
661 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
663 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
664 making it unusable in complex expressions.
666 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
667 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
670 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
672 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
674 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
676 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
677 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
678 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
679 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
681 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
682 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
684 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
685 better. Reported by Qualys.
687 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
688 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
691 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
693 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
696 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
698 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
699 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
700 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
701 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
703 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
704 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
706 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
707 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
708 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
709 mode until after various protocol state checks.
710 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
712 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
714 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
715 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
717 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
720 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
721 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
722 executed child processes (if any).
724 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
727 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
728 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
729 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
730 been reported on other platforms.
732 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
734 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
735 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
736 Not supported on Solaris 10.
738 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
739 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
740 since fakereject was originally introduced.
742 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
743 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
745 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
746 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
747 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
750 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
751 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
752 which only permit IP addresses.
758 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
759 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
760 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
762 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
764 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
765 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
768 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
769 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
770 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
772 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
774 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
776 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
777 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
778 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
780 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
781 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
782 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
784 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
785 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
787 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
788 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
791 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
792 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
793 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
794 should both provide the file and set the option.
795 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
797 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
798 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
800 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
801 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
802 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
803 Authentication-Results: header.
805 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
806 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
807 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
808 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
810 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
811 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
812 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
813 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
814 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
815 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
816 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
818 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
819 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
820 copies while it is still usable.
822 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
823 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
824 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
826 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
827 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
829 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
830 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
831 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
832 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
834 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
835 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
836 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
839 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
840 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
841 - the pipe transport command
842 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
843 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
845 - paths used by single-key lookups
846 Previously this was permitted.
848 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
849 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
850 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
851 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
853 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
854 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
855 support larger malloc requests.
857 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
858 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
859 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
860 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
862 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
863 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
864 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
865 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
868 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
869 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
870 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
871 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
872 data being length-specified.
874 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
875 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
876 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
877 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
879 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
880 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
881 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
882 not being properly tracked.
884 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
885 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
886 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
887 minute could be seen.
889 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
890 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
891 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
893 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
894 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
896 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
897 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
900 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
902 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
903 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
905 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
906 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
907 filesystem as sufficient validation.
909 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
910 argument is supplied.
912 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
913 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
914 access under Exim's current working directory.
916 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
917 Previously no event was raised.
919 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
920 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
921 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
924 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
925 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
926 the size of the signature hash.
928 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
929 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
931 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
932 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
933 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
934 dropped between messages.
936 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
937 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
938 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
939 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
941 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
942 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
943 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
944 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
945 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
946 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
947 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
948 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
949 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
951 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
952 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
953 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
955 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
956 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
963 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
964 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
966 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
967 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
970 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
973 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
975 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
977 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
978 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
980 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
981 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
982 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
983 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
984 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
985 suitably configured).
987 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
988 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
990 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
991 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
994 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
995 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
997 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
998 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
999 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
1000 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
1003 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
1004 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
1005 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
1007 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
1010 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
1011 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
1013 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
1014 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
1015 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
1016 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
1019 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1020 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
1021 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
1022 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
1023 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
1025 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1026 shared (NFS) environment.
1028 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
1029 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
1032 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
1033 on some platforms for bit 31.
1035 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
1036 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
1037 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
1038 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
1039 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
1040 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
1041 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
1042 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
1044 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
1046 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
1047 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
1049 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
1050 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
1053 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
1054 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
1057 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
1058 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
1059 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
1062 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
1063 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
1064 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
1066 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
1067 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
1068 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
1069 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
1070 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
1072 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
1075 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
1076 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
1077 be requested on all coneections.
1079 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
1080 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
1082 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
1084 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
1085 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
1086 one for these; the option was ignored.
1088 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
1089 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
1090 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
1091 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
1093 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
1094 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
1095 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
1098 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
1099 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
1100 error ignored was made.
1102 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
1104 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
1105 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
1106 values, to catch one form of exploit.
1108 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
1109 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1110 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1112 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1113 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1116 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1117 them in our smtp response.
1119 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1120 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1121 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1122 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1123 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1125 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1126 link count into consideration.
1128 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1129 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1131 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1132 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1133 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1136 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1138 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1140 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1142 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1143 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1144 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1145 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1147 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1149 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1150 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1153 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1154 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1155 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1157 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1158 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1159 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1161 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1162 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1163 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1164 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1165 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1166 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1167 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1168 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1170 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1171 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1172 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1174 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1175 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1176 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1178 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1179 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1186 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1187 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1189 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1190 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1192 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1193 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1194 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1196 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1197 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1198 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1200 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1201 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1202 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1203 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1204 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1207 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1208 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1210 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1211 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1212 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1213 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1214 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1215 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1216 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1218 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1219 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1221 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1224 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1225 Previously this would segfault.
1227 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1230 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1231 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1232 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1233 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1234 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1235 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1237 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1239 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1240 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1241 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1242 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1244 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1246 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1247 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1248 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1249 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1251 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1253 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1255 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1256 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1257 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1259 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1260 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1261 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1263 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1265 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1266 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1267 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1268 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1270 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1271 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1272 promised '?' replacement.
1274 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1276 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1277 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1278 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1279 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1280 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1282 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1283 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1284 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1286 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1287 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1288 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1290 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1291 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1292 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1294 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1295 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1296 hope that is portable enough.
1298 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1299 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1300 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1301 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1303 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1304 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1305 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1307 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1308 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1309 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1310 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1312 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1313 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1315 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1316 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1317 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1318 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1320 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1321 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1322 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1324 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1325 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1326 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1327 the previous G, M, k.
1329 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1330 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1333 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1334 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1335 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1336 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1338 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1339 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1341 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1342 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1343 off past the nul-terimation.
1345 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1346 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1347 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1348 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1349 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1351 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1353 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1354 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1355 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1358 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1359 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1361 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1362 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1363 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1365 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1366 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1367 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1369 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1370 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1376 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1377 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1378 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1379 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1380 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1381 be defined in redis_servers.
1383 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1384 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1386 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1387 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1388 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1389 extant use locations.
1391 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1392 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1394 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1395 Previously only the last row was returned.
1397 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1398 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1399 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1400 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1403 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1404 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1405 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1406 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1407 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1408 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1409 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1410 Main pool for expansions.
1411 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1412 active in the testsuite.
1413 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1415 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1416 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1417 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1418 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1421 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1422 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1425 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1426 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1427 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1429 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1430 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1431 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1433 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1434 rows affected is given instead).
1436 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1437 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1439 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1440 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1441 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1442 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1443 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1445 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1446 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1447 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1449 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1450 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1451 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1452 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1455 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1456 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1457 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1460 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1462 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1463 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1465 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1466 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1467 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1469 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1470 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1471 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1474 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1475 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1477 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1478 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1479 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1481 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1482 for the build is renamed.
1484 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1485 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1486 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1488 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1489 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1490 result replacing the original.
1492 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1493 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1494 and the resources needed to be freed.
1496 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1498 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1501 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1502 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1503 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1504 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1506 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1507 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1509 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1510 newer versions of the scanner.
1512 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1513 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1514 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1515 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1516 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1517 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1518 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1520 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1521 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1522 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1523 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1524 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1525 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1526 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1527 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1528 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1529 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1531 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1532 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1534 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1536 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1537 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1539 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1540 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1542 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1543 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1544 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1546 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1547 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1548 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1549 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1551 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1552 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1555 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1556 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1558 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1559 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1560 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1561 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1562 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1564 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1565 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1568 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1569 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1571 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1574 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1575 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1576 "bare" representation.
1578 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1579 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1580 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1581 corrupted the output.
1587 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1588 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1589 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1590 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1592 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1593 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1595 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1596 This permits better logging.
1598 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1599 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1600 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1601 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1602 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1603 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1605 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1606 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1609 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1610 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1611 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1613 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1614 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1616 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1617 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1618 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1619 client, there is no benefit for these.
1620 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1621 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1622 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1625 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1626 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1628 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1629 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1630 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1632 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1633 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1635 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1636 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1637 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1638 signature and again for transmission.
1640 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1641 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1642 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1644 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1645 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1646 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1647 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1648 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1649 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1650 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1652 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1653 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1654 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1655 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1657 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1658 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1659 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1660 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1661 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1662 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1665 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1666 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1667 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1668 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1671 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1672 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1673 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1674 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1677 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1678 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1681 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1682 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1683 banner-time rejection.
1685 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1688 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1689 is the name of a transport.
1692 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1694 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1695 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1697 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1698 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1699 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1702 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1703 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1704 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1705 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1707 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1708 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1709 initial verify call returned a defer.
1711 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1712 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1714 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1715 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1717 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1718 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1720 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1721 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1723 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1724 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1727 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1728 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1730 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1731 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1732 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1734 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1735 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1736 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1737 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1739 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1740 and confused the parent.
1742 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1743 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1745 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1748 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1749 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1750 out-of-order delivery.
1752 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1753 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1754 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1757 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1758 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1761 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1762 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1763 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1765 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1766 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1767 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1768 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1769 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1770 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1772 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1773 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1774 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1776 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1777 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1778 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1780 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1781 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1782 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1783 though a different problem.
1789 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1790 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1792 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1794 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1795 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1797 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1798 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1800 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1801 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1802 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1803 before acknowledging the chunk.
1805 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1806 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1807 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1809 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1810 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1811 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1814 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1815 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1816 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1818 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1819 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1821 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1822 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1823 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1824 body hash calculated value.
1826 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1827 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1828 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1830 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1832 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1833 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1835 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1836 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1837 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1839 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1840 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1841 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1842 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1843 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1844 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1846 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1847 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1848 past that check, despite the cost.
1850 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1851 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1852 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1854 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1855 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1856 TLS library to consume.
1858 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1860 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1862 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1863 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1864 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1865 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1866 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1867 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1868 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1870 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1872 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1874 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1875 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1876 should be warning-free.
1878 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1880 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1881 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1883 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1884 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1885 general solution here.
1887 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1888 already-broken messages in the queue.
1890 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1892 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1898 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1899 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1901 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1902 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1903 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1905 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1906 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1907 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1908 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1909 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1910 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1911 if one fails this test.
1912 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1913 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1915 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1916 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1918 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1919 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1921 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1922 in rewrites and routers.
1924 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1925 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1927 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1928 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1930 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1932 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1935 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1936 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1937 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1938 connection after a verify cache hit.
1939 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1941 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1942 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1944 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1945 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1946 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1947 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1948 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1950 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1951 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1953 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1954 Previously they were not counted.
1956 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1957 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1958 that needed the lookup.
1960 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1961 distinguished as "(=".
1963 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1964 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1966 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1968 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1969 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1971 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1972 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1974 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1975 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1978 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1979 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1980 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1981 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1983 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1985 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1986 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1987 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1989 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1990 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1991 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1994 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1995 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1996 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1999 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
2000 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
2001 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
2003 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
2004 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
2007 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
2009 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
2010 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
2012 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
2013 are not in the system include path.
2015 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
2016 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
2017 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
2018 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
2020 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
2021 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
2022 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
2024 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
2026 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
2027 an incoming connection.
2029 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
2032 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
2033 fallback to "prime256v1".
2035 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
2036 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
2042 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
2043 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
2044 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
2045 client dropping the TLS connection.
2047 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
2048 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
2050 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
2051 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
2052 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
2053 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
2056 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
2057 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
2058 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
2059 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
2060 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
2061 check on the next write.
2063 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
2064 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
2065 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
2066 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
2067 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
2069 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
2070 mime_regex ACL conditions.
2072 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
2073 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
2074 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
2076 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
2077 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
2078 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
2079 an authenticate fail is not an error.
2081 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
2082 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
2084 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
2085 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
2087 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
2088 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
2089 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
2092 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
2094 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
2096 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
2098 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
2099 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
2101 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
2102 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
2104 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
2106 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
2107 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
2109 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2111 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2112 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2114 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2116 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2117 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2118 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2119 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2120 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2121 they will retry in-clear.
2122 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2123 at installation time.
2125 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2126 with the $config_file variable.
2128 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2129 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2130 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2131 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2132 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2134 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2135 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2136 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2137 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2138 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2140 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2142 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2143 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2144 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2145 list order is no longer honoured.
2147 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2148 for DKIM processing.
2150 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2151 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2153 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2154 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2155 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2156 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2158 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2159 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2161 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2162 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2164 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2165 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2167 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2169 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2170 cached by the daemon.
2172 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2173 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2175 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2176 keys are given for lookup.
2178 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2179 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2180 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2181 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2183 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2184 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2185 server-side so match that on older versions.
2187 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2188 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2189 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2191 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2192 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2194 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2195 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2196 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2197 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2198 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2199 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2200 initial truncated version.
2202 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2204 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2206 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2207 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2209 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2211 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2213 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2214 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2217 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2218 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2221 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2222 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2224 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2225 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2228 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2229 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2230 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2232 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2233 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2234 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2235 extraction. Accept either.
2241 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2244 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2246 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2249 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2250 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2251 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2252 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2254 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2255 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2256 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2258 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2259 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2260 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2263 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2266 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2267 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2268 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2269 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2270 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2272 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2273 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2274 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2276 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2278 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2279 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2281 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2282 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2284 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2287 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2288 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2290 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2291 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2292 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2294 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2295 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2296 specify a port-range.
2298 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2299 timeout value per server.
2301 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2302 now have the list separator specified.
2304 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2307 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2310 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2312 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2313 rather than the verbs used.
2315 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2316 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2318 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2320 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2321 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2323 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2324 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2326 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2327 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2329 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2331 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2333 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2334 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2335 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2336 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2338 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2340 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2341 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2343 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2344 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2346 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2348 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2350 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2352 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2353 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2355 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2356 added for tls authenticator.
2358 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2364 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2365 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2366 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2367 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2368 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2369 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2370 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2372 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2373 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2374 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2375 function when detected.
2377 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2378 cause callback expansion.
2380 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2381 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2382 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2383 instead of bool when processing it.
2385 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2386 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2388 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2390 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2392 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2394 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2395 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2397 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2398 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2399 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2400 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2401 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2402 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2404 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2405 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2408 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2409 version 3.3.6 or later.
2411 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2412 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2413 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2414 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2415 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2416 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2419 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2420 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2422 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2423 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2424 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2427 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2428 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2429 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2431 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2432 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2434 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2435 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2438 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2440 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2441 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2443 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2444 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2447 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2449 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2452 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2453 output list separator was used.
2458 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2459 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2462 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2463 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2465 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2467 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2468 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2474 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2476 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2477 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2478 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2479 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2480 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2481 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2483 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2484 utilities have not been installed.
2486 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2487 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2489 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2490 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2492 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2493 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2494 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2495 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2497 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2499 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2500 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2502 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2505 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2507 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2508 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2509 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2511 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2512 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2513 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2514 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2515 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2516 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2518 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2520 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2521 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2523 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2526 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2528 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2530 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2531 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2533 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2534 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2536 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2538 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2540 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2541 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2543 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2544 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2545 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2547 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2548 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2549 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2552 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2554 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2555 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2558 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2559 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2562 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2563 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2565 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2566 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2568 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2570 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2571 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2572 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2574 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2575 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2577 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2578 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2581 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2582 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2583 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2585 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2587 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2588 Christian Aistleitner.
2590 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2592 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2593 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2595 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2596 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2598 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2599 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2601 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2602 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2604 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2605 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2607 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2608 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2609 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2611 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2613 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2614 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2617 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2619 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2620 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2627 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2629 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2630 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2632 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2635 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2636 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2639 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2641 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2642 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2643 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2644 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2645 using channel bindings instead).
2647 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2648 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2649 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2650 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2651 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2654 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2656 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2658 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2659 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2661 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2662 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2663 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2665 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2667 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2669 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2670 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2672 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2674 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2676 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2678 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2679 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2681 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2683 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2684 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2687 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2688 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2690 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2691 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2694 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2696 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2698 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2699 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2701 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2704 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2705 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2707 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2708 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2710 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2712 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2714 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2717 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2720 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2722 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2723 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2724 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2725 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2727 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2729 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2730 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2731 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2732 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2735 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2736 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2737 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2739 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2740 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2741 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2742 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2744 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2745 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2746 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2747 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2748 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2749 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2750 delivery, as in LMTP.
2752 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2753 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2755 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2757 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2761 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2762 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2763 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2764 username as equal to the username.
2766 This change corrects that bug.
2768 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2769 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2770 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2772 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2774 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2775 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2776 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2777 NULL dereference and crash.
2779 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2781 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2782 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2783 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2785 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2787 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2788 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2789 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2790 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2791 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2792 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2793 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2794 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2795 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2796 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2797 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2799 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2800 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2802 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2803 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2806 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2807 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2808 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2809 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2810 an empty string is now equivalent.
2812 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2813 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2814 not performing validation itself.
2816 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2817 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2819 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2822 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2824 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2825 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2826 other false fix of the same issue.
2827 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2830 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2831 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2833 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2834 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2835 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2837 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2838 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2839 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2841 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2843 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2845 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2846 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2848 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2851 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2852 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2853 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2854 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2855 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2857 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2858 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2860 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2861 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2864 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2865 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2866 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2867 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2869 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2871 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2872 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2873 from multiple comments on this bug.
2875 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2877 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2878 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2881 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2882 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2884 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2885 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2891 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2893 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2899 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2900 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2901 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2903 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2905 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2908 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2910 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2912 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2914 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2915 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2917 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2918 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2920 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2921 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2923 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2924 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2925 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2927 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2929 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2930 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2932 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2934 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2936 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2937 non-compliant senders.
2938 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2940 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2941 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2942 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2944 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2945 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2946 in spool file corruption.
2948 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2949 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2950 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2953 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2954 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2955 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2957 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2958 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2960 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2962 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2964 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2966 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2967 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2968 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2970 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2971 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2972 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2973 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2975 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2976 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2978 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2979 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2980 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2981 resolver implementation change.
2983 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2984 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2986 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2988 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2990 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2991 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2993 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2994 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2996 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2997 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2999 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
3000 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
3001 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
3002 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
3003 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
3005 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3007 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
3008 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
3009 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
3011 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
3013 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
3014 read-only, out of scope).
3015 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
3017 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
3018 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
3019 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
3020 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
3022 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
3024 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
3025 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
3026 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
3027 real issues in debug logging.
3029 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
3030 assignment on my part. Fixed.
3032 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
3033 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
3034 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
3036 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
3037 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
3038 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
3041 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
3042 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
3044 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
3045 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
3046 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
3047 needs to override this, it can.
3049 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
3050 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
3051 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3053 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
3054 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
3055 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
3056 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
3058 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
3064 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
3065 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
3067 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
3069 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
3072 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
3073 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
3075 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
3076 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
3077 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
3079 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
3080 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
3081 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
3082 not safe for signals.
3084 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
3085 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
3086 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
3087 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
3090 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
3092 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
3093 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
3094 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
3095 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
3096 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
3098 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
3099 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
3100 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
3101 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
3102 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
3103 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
3105 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
3106 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
3107 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
3108 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3110 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3111 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3112 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3113 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3115 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3116 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3117 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3118 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3119 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3120 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3121 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3122 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3123 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3125 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3126 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3127 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3128 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3130 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3131 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3132 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3133 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3134 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3135 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3136 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3137 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3138 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3139 details in the main documentation.
3141 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3143 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3145 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3146 repository when doing development or release builds.
3148 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3149 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3151 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3152 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3155 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3157 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3158 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3160 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3161 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3163 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3164 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3166 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3167 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3169 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3170 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3172 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3174 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3177 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3178 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3179 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3181 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3183 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3185 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3186 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3192 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3194 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3195 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3197 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3199 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3201 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3204 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3205 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3207 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3208 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3210 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3211 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3213 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3216 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3217 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3219 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3220 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3221 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3222 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3224 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3225 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3231 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3234 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3235 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3236 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3238 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3239 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3241 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3242 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3243 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3245 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3246 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3248 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3249 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3251 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3252 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3254 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3255 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3257 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3258 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3260 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3263 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3264 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3266 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3267 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3269 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3270 SQL string expansion failure details.
3271 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3273 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3274 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3276 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3277 extern declarations in function scope.
3278 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3280 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3281 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3282 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3285 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3286 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3288 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3289 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3291 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3292 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3294 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3295 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3297 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3298 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3301 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3303 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3305 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3306 Patch by Simon Arlott
3308 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3309 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3315 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3316 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3318 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3319 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3321 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3323 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3324 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3325 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3327 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3328 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3329 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3331 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3332 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3333 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3334 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3336 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3337 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3338 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3339 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3341 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3342 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3343 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3346 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3349 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3350 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3351 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3352 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3353 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3359 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3360 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3361 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3363 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3364 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3366 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3368 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3370 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3372 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3374 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3376 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3377 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3378 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3379 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3381 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3382 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3383 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3384 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3385 more caution in buffer sizes.
3387 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3389 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3391 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3393 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3395 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3397 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3399 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3401 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3402 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3403 ignore trailing whitespace.
3405 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3407 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3410 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3411 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3413 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3414 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3415 Notification from John Horne.
3417 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3420 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3421 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3424 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3427 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3428 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3429 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3431 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3432 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3433 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3436 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3437 option (effectively making it always true).
3439 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3440 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3442 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3443 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3445 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3446 run-time user, instead of root.
3448 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3449 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3451 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3452 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3455 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3456 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3457 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3459 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3461 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3467 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3468 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3471 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3472 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3475 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3476 Patch from Alain Williams
3478 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3480 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3481 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3483 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3484 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3486 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3488 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3490 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3491 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3493 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3495 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3497 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3498 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3499 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3501 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3502 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3504 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3505 Patch by Simon Arlott
3507 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3508 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3514 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3516 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3518 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3520 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3522 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3528 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3529 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3531 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3532 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3535 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3536 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3537 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3539 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3540 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3542 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3543 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3544 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3545 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3547 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3548 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3549 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3551 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3553 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3555 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3556 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3558 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3560 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3561 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3562 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3563 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3565 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3566 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3568 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3570 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3572 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3573 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3575 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3576 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3578 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3579 that they are available at delivery time.
3581 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3583 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3584 incoming_port log selectors.
3586 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3587 setting expands to an empty string.
3589 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3590 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3592 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3593 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3595 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3596 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3598 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3599 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3601 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3602 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3604 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3605 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3607 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3609 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3610 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3612 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3613 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3615 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3617 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3618 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3620 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3622 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3624 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3627 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3628 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3630 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3631 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3633 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3634 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3636 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3637 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3639 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3640 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3642 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3643 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3645 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3646 plus update to original patch.
3648 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3650 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3651 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3653 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3655 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3657 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3659 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3661 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3662 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3664 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3665 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3667 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3668 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3670 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3671 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3673 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3675 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3677 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3679 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3685 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3686 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3687 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3689 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3690 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3691 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3692 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3693 build errors in sieve.c.
3695 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3696 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3697 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3699 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3701 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3703 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3705 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3711 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3713 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3714 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3715 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3716 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3717 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3718 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3719 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3720 for iplsearch lookups.
3722 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3723 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3724 previously such lookups could never work.
3726 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3727 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3728 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3730 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3733 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3734 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3735 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3736 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3737 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3738 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3740 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3741 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3743 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3744 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3745 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3746 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3747 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3748 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3750 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3753 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3755 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3756 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3759 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3760 by clients under certain conditions.
3762 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3763 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3765 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3767 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3768 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3770 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3772 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3774 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3776 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3777 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3779 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3781 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3782 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3784 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3786 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3788 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3789 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3790 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3791 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3793 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3794 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3795 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3797 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3798 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3800 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3802 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3804 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3806 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3807 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3808 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3814 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3815 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3818 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3819 issue a MAIL command.
3821 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3823 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3825 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3826 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3827 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3828 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3829 item. This has been fixed.
3831 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3832 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3834 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3835 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3837 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3838 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3839 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3841 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3843 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3844 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3845 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3846 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3847 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3849 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3850 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3851 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3853 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3854 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3855 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3856 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3858 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3860 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3862 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3863 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3864 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3865 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3866 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3868 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3870 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3871 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3872 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3875 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3877 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3879 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3881 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3883 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3885 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3886 no_callout_flush is set.
3888 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3889 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3890 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3893 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3895 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3896 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3897 other ACL rejections are.
3899 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3900 with slight modification.
3902 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3903 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3905 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3906 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3909 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3910 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3912 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3914 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3915 expansion side effects.
3917 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3918 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3919 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3922 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3923 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3924 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3926 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3927 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3928 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3929 were accidentally chopped off.
3931 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3932 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3933 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3934 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3935 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3936 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3937 pipelining has not been advertised.
3939 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3941 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3942 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3943 This has been fixed.
3945 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3946 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3947 reported on Solaris.
3949 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3950 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3951 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3952 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3953 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3954 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3955 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3957 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3960 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3962 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3964 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3965 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3966 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3967 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3968 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3969 criteria to be more general.
3971 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3972 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3973 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3974 host_all_ignored option.
3976 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3977 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3978 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3979 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3980 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3981 is what is supposed to happen).
3983 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3984 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3985 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3986 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3987 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3990 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3991 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3992 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3993 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3994 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3995 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3998 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4000 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
4001 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
4003 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
4004 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
4006 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
4008 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4010 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
4011 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
4012 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
4013 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
4014 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
4015 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
4016 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
4017 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
4018 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
4019 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
4020 least in a lot of common cases.
4022 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
4023 advertised in response to EHLO.
4029 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
4030 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
4032 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
4033 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
4035 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
4036 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
4037 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
4039 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
4040 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
4041 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
4042 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
4043 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
4049 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
4050 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
4053 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
4054 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
4055 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
4057 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
4058 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
4059 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
4060 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
4061 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
4062 rather than extend the field.
4068 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
4069 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
4070 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
4071 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
4074 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
4075 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
4076 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
4078 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
4079 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
4080 hence the _LINUX specificness.
4082 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
4083 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
4084 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
4087 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
4088 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
4089 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
4090 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
4091 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
4092 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
4093 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
4094 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
4095 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
4096 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
4097 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
4099 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
4102 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
4103 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
4104 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
4105 ignores EPIPE as well.
4107 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
4108 (quoted-printable decoding).
4110 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4111 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4113 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4115 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4117 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4119 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4120 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4122 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4125 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4126 miscellaneous code fixes
4128 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4131 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4132 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4133 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4134 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4135 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4136 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4137 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4138 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4140 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4141 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4142 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4143 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4145 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4146 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4147 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4148 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4149 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4150 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4151 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4152 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4153 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4155 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4158 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4159 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4160 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4161 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4162 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4163 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4164 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4165 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4167 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4168 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4171 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4172 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4173 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4174 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4175 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4176 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4177 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4178 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4179 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4180 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4181 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4182 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4183 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4185 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4186 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4187 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4188 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4189 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4190 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4191 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4193 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4194 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4195 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4196 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4197 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4198 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4199 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4200 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4201 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4202 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4204 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4205 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4206 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4207 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4208 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4210 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4211 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4212 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4213 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4214 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4215 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4216 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4218 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4219 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4220 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4221 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4222 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4223 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4226 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4227 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4228 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4231 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4232 if any retry times were supplied.
4234 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4235 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4236 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4238 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4240 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4242 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4243 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4244 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4245 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4246 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4247 before) are ignored.
4249 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4250 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4252 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4253 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4254 committing the later change.]
4256 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4257 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4258 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4259 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4260 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4261 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4262 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4263 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4264 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4266 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4267 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4268 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4269 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4270 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4271 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4272 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4273 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4274 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4276 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4277 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4278 hammering the server.
4280 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4281 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4283 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4285 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4286 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4287 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4289 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4290 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4291 one case where this was not true.
4293 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4294 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4295 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4296 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4299 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4300 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4301 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4302 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4303 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4304 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4305 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4306 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4307 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4310 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4311 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4312 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4313 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4315 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4316 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4318 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4319 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4320 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4322 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4324 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4326 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4328 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4329 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4330 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4331 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4333 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4334 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4336 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4337 be meaningful with "accept".
4339 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4340 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4342 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4343 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4344 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4346 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4347 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4348 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4349 there is data to show.
4350 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4352 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4353 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4354 as well as the number of messages.
4356 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4357 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4358 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4360 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4361 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4362 have a flag are now skipped.
4364 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4365 Added the -emptyok flag.
4367 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4368 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4370 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4371 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4372 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4374 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4377 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4378 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4380 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4382 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4383 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4385 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4387 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4388 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4389 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4390 contravention of the specifications.
4392 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4393 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4394 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4396 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4397 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4398 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4400 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4402 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4403 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4404 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4405 some point in the past.
4407 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4408 transport during callout processing was broken.
4410 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4411 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4413 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4414 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4416 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4417 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4419 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4425 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4426 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4428 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4429 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4430 there is data to show.
4431 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4433 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4434 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4436 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4437 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4439 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4440 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4442 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4443 submissions from trusted users.
4445 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4446 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4448 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4449 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4450 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4451 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4452 there is now a framework to start from.
4454 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4455 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4456 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4458 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4460 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4462 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4464 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4465 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4466 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4468 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4471 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4472 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4473 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4475 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4476 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4477 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4480 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4481 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4482 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4483 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4484 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4486 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4487 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4489 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4491 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4492 operations in malware.c.
4494 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4497 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4498 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4499 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4502 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4503 statements to "add_header".
4505 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4506 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4508 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4509 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4512 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4516 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4517 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4518 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4521 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4522 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4524 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4525 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4527 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4528 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4529 any possible encoding problems.
4531 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4532 but not after initializing Perl.
4534 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4535 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4536 apparently, which is not desirable.
4538 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4541 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4544 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4546 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4547 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4548 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4549 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4551 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4552 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4553 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4555 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4556 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4557 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4560 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4561 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4562 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4563 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4564 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4570 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4571 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4573 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4576 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4577 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4578 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4579 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4580 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4581 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4582 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4583 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4586 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4588 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4589 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4590 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4592 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4593 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4594 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4597 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4598 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4600 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4601 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4602 option (which defaults to 0600).
4604 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4606 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4607 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4608 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4609 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4610 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4611 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4612 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4614 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4620 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4621 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4622 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4623 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4624 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4625 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4628 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4629 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4631 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4633 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4634 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4635 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4636 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4637 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4640 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4641 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4643 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4644 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4645 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4646 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4647 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4649 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4650 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4651 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4652 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4654 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4655 be the same on different OS.
4657 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4660 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4661 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4663 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4666 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4667 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4668 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4669 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4670 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4671 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4674 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4675 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4676 when Exim was called.
4678 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4679 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4681 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4682 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4683 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4684 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4686 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4687 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4688 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4689 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4692 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4693 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4694 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4696 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4697 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4698 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4700 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4703 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4704 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4705 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4706 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4707 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4708 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4709 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4710 values from the SRV records were lost.
4712 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4713 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4714 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4716 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4717 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4718 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4720 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4721 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4722 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4723 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4724 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4725 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4726 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4727 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4728 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4729 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4731 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4732 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4733 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4735 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4736 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4738 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4739 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4740 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4741 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4744 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4745 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4746 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4748 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4749 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4750 PH/23 above applies.
4752 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4753 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4754 (for which there is an explicit test).
4756 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4758 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4759 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4760 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4761 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4762 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4764 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4765 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4766 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4767 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4769 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4770 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4771 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4773 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4775 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4777 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4778 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4779 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4781 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4782 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4783 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4784 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4785 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4787 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4788 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4789 the message gets confusing).
4791 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4792 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4793 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4794 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4796 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4797 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4798 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4799 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4802 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4803 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4804 the different processes.
4806 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4808 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4810 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4811 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4813 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4814 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4816 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4817 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4818 messages matching specified criteria.
4820 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4822 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4823 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4825 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4826 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4827 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4828 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4829 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4830 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4831 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4832 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4833 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4834 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4836 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4837 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4838 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4840 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4842 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4843 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4844 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4845 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4846 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4847 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4848 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4851 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4852 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4854 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4856 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4858 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4860 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4861 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4862 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4863 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4864 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4865 size of the count of files.
4867 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4869 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4872 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4873 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4874 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4875 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4877 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4878 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4879 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4881 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4882 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4883 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4884 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4885 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4887 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4888 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4890 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4891 will now be deprecated.
4893 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4895 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4896 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4897 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4899 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4900 with very large, slow to parse queues
4902 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4904 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4906 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4907 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4908 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4911 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4912 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4913 Sieve code now uses this.
4915 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4916 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4918 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4919 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4921 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4923 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4924 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4925 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4926 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4927 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4929 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4930 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4931 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4932 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4934 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4936 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4938 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4939 is preferred over IPv4.
4941 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4942 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4943 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4944 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4945 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4946 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4947 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4949 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4950 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4951 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4953 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4955 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4956 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4957 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4958 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4959 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4960 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4961 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4962 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4963 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4964 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4965 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4967 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4968 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4969 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4975 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4977 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4978 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4980 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4981 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4982 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4984 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4986 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4989 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4992 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4993 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4994 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4997 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4998 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
5000 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
5001 inside the third argument.
5003 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
5004 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
5007 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
5008 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
5010 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
5011 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
5013 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
5015 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
5016 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
5019 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
5021 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
5022 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
5023 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
5024 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
5025 identical. For example:
5027 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
5029 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
5030 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
5031 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
5033 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
5034 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
5035 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
5036 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
5038 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
5039 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
5040 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
5043 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
5045 o fixes some comments
5046 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
5047 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
5048 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
5049 and documents the missing references header update
5053 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
5054 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
5057 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
5058 Electronic Mail") by including:
5060 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
5062 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
5063 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
5064 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
5065 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
5066 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
5068 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5070 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
5072 The auto-replied keyword:
5074 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
5075 message by an automatic process,
5077 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
5079 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
5080 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
5082 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
5083 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
5086 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
5087 to the default Received: header definition.
5089 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
5091 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
5092 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
5093 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
5095 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
5096 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
5097 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
5099 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
5100 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
5101 and treats the condition as false.
5103 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
5105 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
5106 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
5107 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
5108 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
5109 not changing the active code.
5111 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5112 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5114 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5115 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5117 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5120 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5121 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5122 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5123 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5124 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5125 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5126 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5127 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5128 the text comparison.
5130 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5131 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5132 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5133 The same fix has been applied.
5139 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5140 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5143 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5144 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5146 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5148 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5149 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5150 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5151 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5152 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5154 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5155 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5156 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5157 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5160 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5168 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5169 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5171 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5173 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5175 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5176 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5177 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5179 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5180 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5181 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5183 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5184 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5187 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5188 ${stat: expansion item.
5190 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5191 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5193 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5194 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5197 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5199 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5202 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5203 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5205 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5207 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5208 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5209 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5210 the end of the subprocess.
5212 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5213 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5214 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5215 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5216 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5218 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5220 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5222 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5223 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5225 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5227 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5229 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5230 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5233 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5235 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5236 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5237 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5239 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5240 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5242 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5243 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5245 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5246 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5248 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5249 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5251 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5252 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5253 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5254 contributed by a Radius user.
5256 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5257 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5259 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5260 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5262 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5265 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5266 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5269 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5270 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5271 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5272 header lines when this was not necessary.
5274 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5276 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5277 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5278 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5281 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5284 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5285 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5286 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5287 return code was incorrect.
5289 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5291 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5293 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5295 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5297 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5298 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5299 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5300 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5301 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5304 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5306 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5307 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5308 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5309 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5310 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5311 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5312 which is clearly wrong.
5314 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5316 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5317 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5318 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5321 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5322 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5324 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5326 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5327 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5329 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5330 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5332 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5333 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5335 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5336 recipients, not senders.
5338 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5339 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5341 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5343 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5345 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5346 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5347 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5348 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5350 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5352 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5353 clock is set back in time.
5355 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5356 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5358 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5359 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5361 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5362 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5365 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5366 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5369 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5372 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5374 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5375 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5376 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5378 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5379 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5380 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5381 helo verification defer as a failure.
5383 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5384 actual error message.
5390 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5392 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5393 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5394 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5395 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5397 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5399 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5400 can still be requested.
5402 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5403 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5404 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5405 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5407 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5408 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5409 circumstances, but probably never did.
5411 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5412 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5413 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5416 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5418 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5419 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5421 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5423 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5425 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5426 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5427 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5428 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5429 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5430 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5432 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5433 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5434 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5435 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5436 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5437 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5439 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5440 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5442 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5443 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5445 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5446 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5448 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5450 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5452 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5454 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5456 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5458 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5460 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5462 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5463 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5464 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5466 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5467 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5468 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5469 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5471 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5472 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5473 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5475 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5476 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5477 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5478 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5480 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5481 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5484 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5485 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5486 should work with maildirs and everything.
5488 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5489 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5491 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5494 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5495 function for BDB 4.3.
5497 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5499 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5500 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5503 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5504 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5505 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5506 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5507 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5508 formatting function string_vformat().
5510 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5511 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5512 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5513 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5514 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5515 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5516 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5517 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5519 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5520 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5523 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5524 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5526 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5527 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5528 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5529 test. It is now used for both.
5531 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5532 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5533 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5534 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5535 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5536 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5538 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5539 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5540 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5543 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5544 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5545 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5547 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5548 experimental DomainKeys support:
5550 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5551 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5552 the control was given.
5554 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5556 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5558 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5560 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5561 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5562 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5565 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5566 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5567 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5568 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5569 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5570 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5573 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5574 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5575 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5576 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5577 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5578 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5580 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5581 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5582 do -d+all out of habit.
5584 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5585 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5588 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5589 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5590 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5591 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5592 record types that Exim uses.
5594 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5595 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5596 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5597 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5598 non-existent file that was broken.
5600 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5601 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5603 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5604 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5605 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5607 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5609 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5610 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5611 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5612 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5613 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5616 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5617 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5618 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5619 at a slight CPU cost.
5621 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5622 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5624 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5627 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5629 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5630 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5636 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5637 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5639 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5641 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5643 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5644 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5646 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5647 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5648 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5649 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5650 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5651 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5654 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5655 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5656 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5657 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5660 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5661 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5662 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5663 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5664 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5665 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5666 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5669 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5670 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5672 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5673 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5674 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5675 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5676 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5677 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5679 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5680 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5681 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5682 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5684 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5687 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5688 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5690 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5691 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5692 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5693 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5696 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5698 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5699 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5701 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5702 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5703 to what was transported.)
5705 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5707 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5708 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5709 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5710 spamd_address settings.
5712 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5713 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5714 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5715 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5716 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5718 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5720 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5721 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5722 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5723 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5724 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5726 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5727 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5729 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5730 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5731 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5732 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5733 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5734 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5735 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5738 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5739 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5740 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5741 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5742 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5743 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5744 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5747 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5749 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5750 driver and ACL definitions.
5752 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5753 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5755 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5756 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5757 understands it better than I do:
5759 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5760 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5762 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5763 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5764 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5765 => three warnings about OTP not working
5766 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5768 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5769 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5770 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5771 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5773 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5774 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5776 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5777 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5778 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5780 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5781 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5784 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5785 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5788 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5789 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5790 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5792 warn !verify = sender
5793 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5795 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5796 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5798 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5800 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5801 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5803 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5804 nomenclature these days.)
5806 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5807 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5809 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5810 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5811 . First host does not offer TLS;
5812 . First host accepts first address;
5813 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5814 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5815 . Second host accepts second address.
5816 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5817 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5820 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5821 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5822 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5823 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5824 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5826 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5827 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5829 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5830 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5832 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5833 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5834 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5836 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5837 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5840 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5842 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5843 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5844 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5845 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5846 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5847 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5848 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5850 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5851 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5852 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5853 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5854 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5856 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5857 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5860 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5861 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5862 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5863 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5864 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5865 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5867 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5869 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5870 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5871 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5872 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5873 printable escape sequences.
5875 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5876 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5879 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5880 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5883 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5884 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5885 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5886 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5887 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5889 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5890 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5891 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5893 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5895 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5896 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5899 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5900 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5901 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5902 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5903 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5904 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5905 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5906 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5907 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5910 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5911 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5912 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5913 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5917 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5918 ----------------------------------------
5920 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5921 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5922 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5923 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5924 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5925 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5928 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5929 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5930 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5931 historical information.
5937 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5939 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5940 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5942 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5943 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5946 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5947 filter fails to execute.
5949 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5950 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5951 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5952 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5953 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5955 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5957 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5958 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5959 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5960 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5962 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5963 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5964 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5965 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5966 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5968 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5970 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5972 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5973 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5974 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5975 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5977 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5978 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5979 sender verification.
5981 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5982 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5984 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5986 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5989 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5990 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5992 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5993 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5995 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5996 information about exactly what failed.
5998 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
6000 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
6001 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
6002 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
6004 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
6005 It is now set to "smtps".
6007 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6008 ignore_target_hosts.
6010 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6011 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6012 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6013 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6016 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6017 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6018 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6020 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6021 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6022 wake it up if nothing else does.
6024 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6025 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6026 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6029 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6030 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6032 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
6034 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
6035 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
6036 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
6037 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
6038 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
6039 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
6040 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
6041 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
6043 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
6044 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
6045 than one IP address.
6047 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
6048 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
6049 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
6050 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
6052 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6053 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6054 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6055 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6056 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6059 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
6060 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
6061 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
6062 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
6064 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6065 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6068 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6069 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6070 $sender_host_address.
6072 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
6073 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
6074 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
6075 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
6076 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
6079 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
6081 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
6082 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
6084 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
6085 just the host names, not the priorities.
6087 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
6088 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
6089 controlled by a keyword.
6091 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
6092 multiple records are returned.
6094 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
6095 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
6098 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
6100 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
6101 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
6103 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6104 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6105 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6107 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
6109 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6111 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6113 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6114 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6115 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6116 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6117 because the tests only now provoked it.
6119 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6120 (this can affect the format of dates).
6122 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6123 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6124 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6125 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6127 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6129 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6130 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6131 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6132 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6134 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6135 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6136 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6138 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6141 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6142 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6143 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6144 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6145 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6146 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6149 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6150 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6151 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6154 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6155 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6156 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6158 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6159 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6160 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6161 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6162 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6163 so I produce this patch..."
6165 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6166 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6169 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6170 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6171 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6172 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6175 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6177 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6178 long debug lines gets shown.
6180 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6181 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6183 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6185 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6186 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6187 of $primary_hostname.
6189 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6190 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6191 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6192 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6193 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6194 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6195 by change 4.50/55 above.
6197 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6198 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6199 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6200 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6201 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6202 running as the user.
6205 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6206 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6207 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6210 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6211 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6213 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6214 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6215 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6216 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6217 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6219 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6220 This has been fixed.
6222 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6223 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6224 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6225 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6228 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6230 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6231 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6232 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6233 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6235 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6236 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6238 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6239 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6240 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6242 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6243 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6244 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6247 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6248 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6249 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6251 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6252 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6253 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6254 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6256 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6257 during host lookups.
6259 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6260 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6262 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6264 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6265 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6266 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6267 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6268 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6271 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6272 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6274 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6275 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6276 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6278 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6280 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6281 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6282 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6283 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6284 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6285 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6288 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6289 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6290 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6291 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6292 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6294 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6297 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6299 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6300 "vacation" handling.
6302 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6303 OS variants using glibc.
6305 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6308 ----------------------------------------------------
6309 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6310 ----------------------------------------------------
6316 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6317 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6320 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6321 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6324 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6325 filter fails to execute.
6327 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6328 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6329 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6330 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6331 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6333 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6334 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6335 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6336 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6338 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6339 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6340 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6341 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6342 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6344 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6346 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6347 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6348 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6349 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6351 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6352 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6353 sender verification.
6355 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6356 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6358 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6359 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6361 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6362 ignore_target_hosts.
6364 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6365 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6366 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6367 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6370 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6371 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6372 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6374 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6375 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6376 wake it up if nothing else does.
6378 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6379 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6380 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6383 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6384 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6386 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6388 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6389 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6392 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6393 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6396 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6397 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6398 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6399 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6400 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6403 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6404 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6407 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6408 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6409 $sender_host_address.
6411 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6413 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6414 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6415 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6417 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6420 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6421 (this can affect the format of dates).
6423 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6424 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6425 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6426 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6428 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6429 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6430 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6432 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6433 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6434 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6435 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6437 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6438 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6439 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6441 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6444 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6445 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6446 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6447 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6448 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6449 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6452 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6453 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6454 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6455 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6458 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6459 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6460 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6461 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6462 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6463 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6464 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6466 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6467 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6468 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6469 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6470 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6471 running as the user.
6474 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6475 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6476 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6479 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6480 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6481 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6482 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6483 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6485 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6486 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6487 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6488 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6491 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6492 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6493 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6494 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6495 because the tests only now provoked it.
6501 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6502 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6503 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6504 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6505 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6506 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6507 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6509 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6510 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6513 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6515 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6517 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6518 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6521 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6522 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6523 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6524 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6525 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6527 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6528 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6530 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6532 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6534 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6537 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6538 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6540 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6541 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6542 affecting debugging statements).
6544 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6546 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6547 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6548 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6549 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6550 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6551 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6552 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6553 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6554 after the received time, and all would be well.
6556 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6557 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6558 condition in an expansion string.
6560 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6562 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6563 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6564 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6565 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6566 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6567 job under whatever limits there are.
6569 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6571 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6574 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6575 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6576 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6577 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6580 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6581 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6582 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6583 binary data in such strings.
6585 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6587 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6588 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6589 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6590 failure, which is pointless.
6592 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6594 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6596 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6597 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6598 Sender: header lines.
6600 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6601 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6602 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6604 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6605 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6606 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6607 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6608 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6611 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6612 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6613 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6614 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6615 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6617 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6618 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6619 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6622 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6623 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6625 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6626 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6628 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6630 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6632 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6634 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6637 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6639 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6641 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6642 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6643 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6644 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6646 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6647 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6653 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6654 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6655 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6657 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6658 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6659 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6660 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6661 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6662 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6664 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6665 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6666 verification failure".
6668 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6669 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6670 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6671 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6673 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6674 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6675 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6676 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6677 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6678 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6679 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6680 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6681 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6682 treated as a timeout.
6684 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6685 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6686 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6687 not set for Exim filters).
6689 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6690 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6691 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6693 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6695 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6696 try to make them clearer.
6698 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6699 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6701 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6703 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6705 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6706 only the Cygwin environment.
6708 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6709 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6710 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6711 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6712 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6714 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6715 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6716 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6717 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6718 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6719 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6720 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6722 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6723 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6725 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6727 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6728 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6729 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6731 To: susanne@some.where
6733 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6734 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6735 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6736 of addresses in From: header lines).
6738 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6739 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6740 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6742 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6743 treated as non-personal.
6745 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6746 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6748 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6750 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6752 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6753 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6754 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6756 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6757 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6759 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6760 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6761 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6762 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6763 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6764 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6766 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6767 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6768 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6769 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6770 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6771 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6772 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6773 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6775 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6777 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6778 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6780 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6781 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6782 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6784 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6785 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6787 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6788 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6789 rather than long int.
6791 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6793 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6799 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6800 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6801 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6802 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6803 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6804 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6810 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6811 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6813 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6814 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6815 socklen_t is defined.
6817 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6820 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6823 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6824 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6825 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6826 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6827 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6829 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6830 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6831 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6832 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6834 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6835 of flapping under certain conditions.
6837 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6838 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6839 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6841 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6843 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6845 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6846 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6847 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6848 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6850 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6851 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6852 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6853 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6854 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6855 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6856 preserved with the message after it was received.
6858 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6859 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6860 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6861 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6862 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6863 test suite worked just fine.
6865 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6866 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6867 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6869 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6870 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6873 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6874 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6875 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6876 does not fully solve it.
6878 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6879 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6880 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6881 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6882 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6884 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6885 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6886 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6888 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6889 string, for example:
6891 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6893 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6894 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6895 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6896 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6897 the routers could not see them.
6899 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6900 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6902 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6903 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6906 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6907 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6908 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6909 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6910 that needed quoting.
6912 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6913 was not being matched caselessly.
6915 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6918 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6919 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6920 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6921 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6922 when use_sender is false.
6924 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6926 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6928 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6930 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6931 the configuration file.
6933 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6934 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6936 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6938 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6939 bytes in the message body.
6941 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6942 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6945 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6947 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6949 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6950 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6951 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6952 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6959 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6960 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6962 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6963 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6964 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6965 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6966 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6968 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6969 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6971 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6972 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6973 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6975 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6976 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6977 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6979 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6982 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6983 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6984 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6985 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6986 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6987 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6988 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6994 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6995 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6996 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6997 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6998 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6999 default (and expected) setting.
7001 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
7002 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
7003 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
7004 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
7006 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
7007 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
7009 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
7012 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
7013 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
7014 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
7015 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
7016 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
7017 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
7019 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
7020 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
7021 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
7023 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
7024 part (NOT match_host).
7026 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
7028 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
7029 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
7030 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
7031 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
7032 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
7033 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
7034 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
7035 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
7036 the same named file.
7038 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
7039 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
7042 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
7043 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
7044 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
7045 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
7048 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
7049 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
7050 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
7052 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
7054 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
7056 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
7058 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
7059 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
7061 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
7062 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
7063 before starting the TLS session.
7065 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
7067 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
7068 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
7070 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
7071 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
7072 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
7073 colon in the middle).
7079 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
7080 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
7081 multiple configurations are in use.
7083 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
7084 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
7085 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
7086 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
7087 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
7088 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
7090 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
7091 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
7093 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
7094 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
7095 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
7097 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
7098 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
7101 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
7102 that used bh_ and bheader_.
7104 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
7106 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
7107 allowing one more file than it should have been.
7109 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7117 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7118 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7119 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7120 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7121 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7123 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7126 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7127 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7128 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7129 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7130 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7131 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7133 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7134 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7135 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7136 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7137 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7138 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7139 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7142 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7143 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7144 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7145 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7146 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7148 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7150 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7151 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7152 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7154 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7156 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7157 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7158 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7161 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7162 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7164 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7165 Three changes have been made:
7167 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7168 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7169 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7170 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7171 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7173 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7176 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7177 the modified behaviour.
7183 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7186 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7187 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7189 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7190 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7191 try to track down a specific problem.
7193 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7194 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7195 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7197 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7200 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7201 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7202 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7203 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7204 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7205 some earlier ones do not.
7207 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7209 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7210 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7211 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7212 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7213 address literals are enabled, of course).
7215 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7217 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7218 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7219 by a command such as
7223 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7225 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7227 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7228 remained set. It is now erased.
7230 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7231 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7233 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7234 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7235 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7236 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7237 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7238 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7239 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7240 appropriate error code.
7242 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7243 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7244 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7245 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7246 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7247 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7249 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7250 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7251 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7253 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7254 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7255 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7256 terminate the header.
7258 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7259 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7260 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7262 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7263 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7264 (4.30/29). In particular:
7266 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7269 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7270 to write a maildirsize file.
7272 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7273 the transport, the new value overrides.
7275 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7278 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7279 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7280 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7283 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7284 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7285 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7288 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7289 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7290 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7292 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7293 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7296 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7297 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7298 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7300 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7302 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7304 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7306 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7307 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7310 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7311 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7312 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7313 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7314 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7315 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7316 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7319 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7320 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7321 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7322 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7323 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7326 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7327 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7328 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7329 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7330 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7331 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7332 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7333 cached value only when the same options are set.
7335 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7337 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7338 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7339 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7340 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7341 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7343 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7344 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7345 it is clearly obsolete.
7347 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7350 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7351 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7352 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7355 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7356 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7357 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7358 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7359 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7361 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7362 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7363 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7364 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7366 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7368 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7370 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7371 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7374 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7375 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7376 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7377 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7378 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7379 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7382 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7383 with the -f command-line option.
7385 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7386 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7387 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7388 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7389 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7390 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7392 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7393 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7396 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7397 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7398 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7399 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7400 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7401 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7402 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7403 buffer is too small.
7405 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7406 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7408 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7409 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7410 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7411 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7412 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7413 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7414 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7415 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7416 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7418 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7419 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7420 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7422 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7423 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7426 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7427 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7428 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7429 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7430 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7432 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7433 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7434 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7435 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7438 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7440 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7442 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7443 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7445 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7446 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7447 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7449 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7450 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7451 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7452 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7453 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7455 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7456 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7457 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7458 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7459 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7460 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7461 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7463 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7464 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7465 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7466 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7467 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7468 the test of how many are available.
7470 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7471 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7472 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7473 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7474 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7475 new message is started.
7477 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7478 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7480 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7481 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7483 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7484 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7485 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7488 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7489 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7490 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7491 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7492 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7493 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7494 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7496 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7497 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7498 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7499 interpreted as octal.
7501 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7504 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7505 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7506 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7507 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7508 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7509 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7511 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7512 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7513 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7514 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7516 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7517 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7518 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7519 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7521 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7522 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7525 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7526 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7528 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7530 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7531 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7532 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7533 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7535 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7536 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7537 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7538 supplied", which is not helpful.
7540 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7541 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7542 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7544 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7545 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7546 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7547 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7548 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7549 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7550 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7551 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7553 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7554 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7555 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7556 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7557 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7559 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7560 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7561 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7562 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7563 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7564 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7566 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7567 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7568 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7570 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7572 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7573 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7574 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7577 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7579 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7580 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7581 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7582 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7583 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7584 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7585 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7586 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7588 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7589 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7590 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7591 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7592 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7594 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7597 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7598 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7599 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7600 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7601 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7602 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7603 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7604 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7605 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7611 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7612 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7613 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7615 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7618 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7619 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7620 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7622 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7623 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7624 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7625 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7626 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7627 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7629 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7630 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7631 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7632 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7633 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7634 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7635 the Exim test suite.
7637 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7638 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7639 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7640 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7642 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7643 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7644 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7645 specify it in this variable.
7647 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7648 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7649 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7650 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7652 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7653 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7654 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7655 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7657 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7658 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7659 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7660 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7661 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7663 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7665 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7668 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7669 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7670 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7671 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7672 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7674 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7675 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7677 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7678 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7679 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7680 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7681 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7683 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7684 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7686 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7687 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7688 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7690 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7691 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7693 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7694 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7696 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7697 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7698 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7700 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7701 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7703 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7704 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7705 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7706 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7708 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7710 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7711 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7712 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7713 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7715 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7717 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7718 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7720 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7722 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7723 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7724 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7725 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7726 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7727 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7729 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7731 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7732 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7735 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7737 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7738 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7740 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7741 550 Sender verify failed
7743 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7744 the final line of the response.
7746 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7747 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7748 all other user lookups.
7750 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7753 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7754 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7755 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7756 result into an int without checking.
7758 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7759 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7760 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7762 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7763 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7764 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7765 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7767 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7770 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7771 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7773 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7774 to the empty sender.
7776 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7777 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7778 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7779 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7780 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7781 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7782 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7785 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7786 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7787 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7788 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7791 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7792 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7794 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7797 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7798 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7800 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7802 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7803 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7806 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7807 as soon as it is encountered.
7809 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7811 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7814 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7815 recognizes a tab character.
7817 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7818 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7819 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7820 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7822 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7824 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7827 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7829 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7831 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7832 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7835 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7836 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7837 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7838 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7839 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7841 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7842 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7844 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7845 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7846 list (.included file names were always shown).
7848 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7849 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7850 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7853 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7854 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7856 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7858 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7860 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7862 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7863 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7864 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7865 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7866 failures to open the logs.
7868 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7869 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7870 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7871 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7872 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7873 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7874 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7880 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7881 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7882 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7885 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7886 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7887 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7889 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7890 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7891 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7893 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7894 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7895 causing some misleading effects.
7897 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7898 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7899 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7901 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7902 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7903 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7904 queue-runner function directly.
7910 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7913 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7914 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7915 was always written to the default place.
7917 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7918 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7919 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7921 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7923 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7925 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7926 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7927 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7929 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7930 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7933 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7934 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7935 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7937 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7938 command line option is disabled.
7940 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7941 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7943 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7945 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7947 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7948 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7950 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7952 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7953 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7954 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7955 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7956 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7957 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7959 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7960 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7963 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7964 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7966 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7967 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7969 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7970 received was valid base64.
7972 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7973 name of the variable that was being set.
7975 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7977 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7978 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7979 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7980 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7981 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7982 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7984 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7986 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7987 nor realm was specified.
7989 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7990 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7991 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7992 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7994 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7995 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7996 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7998 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7999 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
8000 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
8002 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
8003 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
8004 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
8005 some systems use these upper case variants.
8007 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
8008 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
8009 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
8010 socket" when it tried to send the third.
8012 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
8014 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
8015 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
8017 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
8018 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
8021 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
8023 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
8024 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
8025 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
8026 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
8028 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
8031 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
8032 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
8033 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
8035 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
8036 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
8038 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
8039 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
8040 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
8041 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
8043 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
8044 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
8045 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
8047 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
8049 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
8050 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
8051 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
8052 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
8055 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
8056 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
8057 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
8059 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
8061 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
8062 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
8064 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
8065 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
8067 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
8068 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
8069 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
8070 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
8071 when emails are that large.
8078 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
8079 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
8081 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
8082 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
8083 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
8085 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
8086 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
8087 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
8089 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
8090 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
8091 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
8092 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
8093 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
8095 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
8096 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
8097 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
8098 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
8099 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
8102 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
8103 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
8104 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
8105 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
8106 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
8107 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
8108 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
8109 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8110 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8111 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8112 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8113 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8114 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8115 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8117 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8118 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8121 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8122 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8123 error should be diagnosed.
8125 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8126 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8127 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8128 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8129 appeared instead of "NULL".
8131 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8132 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8133 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8134 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8135 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8136 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8139 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8140 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8141 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8147 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8148 or receiver verification errors.
8150 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8153 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8154 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8155 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8156 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8158 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8159 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8160 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8161 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8162 shouldn't happen again.
8164 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8165 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8166 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8168 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8169 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8171 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8173 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8174 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8176 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8177 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8180 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8181 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8182 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8184 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8185 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8186 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8187 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8189 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8190 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8191 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8192 to define what should happen).
8194 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8195 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8196 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8198 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8200 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8202 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8203 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8205 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8206 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8207 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8208 structure in all cases.
8210 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8211 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8212 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8213 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8215 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8216 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8219 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8220 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8222 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8223 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8225 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8226 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8227 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8229 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8230 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8231 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8233 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8234 the book and for uniformity.
8236 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8238 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8239 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8240 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8241 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8242 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8243 non-existent command as the problem.
8245 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8246 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8247 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8249 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8251 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8252 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8253 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8255 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8256 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8257 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8258 timestamps using strftime().
8260 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8261 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8263 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8264 transport-time rewrites.
8266 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8267 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8268 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8269 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8271 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8272 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8274 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8275 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8276 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8277 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8280 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8281 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8282 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8283 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8284 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8285 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8286 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8288 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8289 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8290 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8291 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8292 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8294 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8295 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8296 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8297 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8298 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8299 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8300 remaining text gets split now.
8302 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8303 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8304 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8305 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8307 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8308 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8309 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8310 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8313 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8314 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8315 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8316 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8317 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8318 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8319 passed through if needed.
8321 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8322 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8323 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8324 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8325 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8326 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8328 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8329 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8330 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8331 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8332 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8334 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8335 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8336 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8337 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8338 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8340 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8341 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8344 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8345 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8346 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8347 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8348 mayhem of various kinds.
8350 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8351 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8352 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8353 the right test for positive values.
8355 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8356 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8357 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8358 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8359 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8360 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8361 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8362 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8363 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8364 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8367 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8370 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8371 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8374 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8375 the existing equality matching.
8377 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8378 dealing with inode numbers.
8380 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8381 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8382 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8384 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8385 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8386 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8387 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8390 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8391 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8392 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8393 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8394 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8395 relay addresses has also been removed.
8397 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8399 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8400 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8401 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8403 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8404 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8405 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8406 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8407 processing applies to CR:
8409 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8410 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8412 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8413 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8414 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8415 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8417 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8418 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8419 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8421 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8422 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8423 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8424 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8425 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8426 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8429 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8432 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8433 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8434 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8435 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8438 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8440 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8442 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8444 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8445 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8446 not considered personal.
8448 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8450 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8452 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8454 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8455 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8456 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8457 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8458 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8459 header lines, and spool format errors.
8461 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8462 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8463 for more flexibility.
8465 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8466 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8467 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8469 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8472 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8473 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8474 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8475 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8476 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8477 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8478 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8479 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8480 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8482 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8483 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8484 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8485 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8486 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8487 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8488 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8490 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8491 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8492 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8494 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8495 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8496 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8497 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8498 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8499 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8500 instead of killing the process with assert().
8502 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8503 than Unicode encoding.
8505 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8506 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8507 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8508 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8510 77. Added process_log_path.
8512 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8513 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8515 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8516 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8518 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8519 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8520 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8522 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8523 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8524 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8525 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8526 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8529 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8530 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8533 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8534 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8535 they will be used during message reception.
8541 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.