1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
12 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
14 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
15 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
18 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
21 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
23 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
25 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
26 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
28 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
29 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
30 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
31 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
32 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
35 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
36 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
38 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
39 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
42 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
43 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
45 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
46 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
47 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
48 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
51 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
52 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
53 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
55 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
58 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
59 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
61 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
62 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
63 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
64 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
67 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
68 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
69 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
70 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
73 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
74 shared (NFS) environment.
76 HS/02 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
77 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
80 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
81 on some platforms for bit 31.
83 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
84 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
85 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
86 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
87 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
88 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
89 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
90 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
96 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
97 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
99 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
100 non-signal-safe functions being used.
102 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
103 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
104 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
106 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
107 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
108 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
110 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
111 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
112 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
113 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
114 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
117 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
118 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
120 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
121 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
122 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
123 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
124 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
125 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
126 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
128 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
129 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
131 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
134 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
135 Previously this would segfault.
137 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
140 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
141 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
142 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
143 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
144 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
145 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
147 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
149 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
150 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
151 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
152 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
154 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
156 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
157 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
158 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
159 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
161 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
163 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
165 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
166 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
167 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
169 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
170 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
171 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
173 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
175 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
176 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
177 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
178 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
180 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
181 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
182 promised '?' replacement.
184 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
186 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
187 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
188 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
189 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
190 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
192 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
193 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
194 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
196 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
197 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
198 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
200 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
201 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
202 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
204 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
205 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
206 hope that is portable enough.
208 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
209 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
210 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
211 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
213 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
214 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
215 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
217 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
218 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
219 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
220 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
222 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
223 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
225 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
226 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
227 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
228 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
230 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
231 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
232 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
234 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
235 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
236 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
237 the previous G, M, k.
239 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
240 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
243 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
244 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
245 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
246 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
248 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
249 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
251 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
252 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
253 off past the nul-terimation.
255 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
256 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
257 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
258 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
259 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
261 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
263 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
264 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
265 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
268 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
269 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
271 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
272 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
273 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
275 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
276 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
277 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
279 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
280 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
286 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
287 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
288 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
289 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
290 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
291 be defined in redis_servers.
293 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
294 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
296 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
297 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
298 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
299 extant use locations.
301 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
302 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
304 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
305 Previously only the last row was returned.
307 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
308 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
309 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
310 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
313 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
314 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
315 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
316 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
317 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
318 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
319 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
320 Main pool for expansions.
321 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
322 active in the testsuite.
323 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
325 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
326 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
327 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
328 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
331 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
332 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
335 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
336 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
337 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
339 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
340 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
341 ClamAV interface method is removed.
343 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
344 rows affected is given instead).
346 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
347 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
349 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
350 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
351 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
352 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
353 for all multi-message initiating connections.
355 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
356 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
357 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
359 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
360 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
361 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
362 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
365 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
366 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
367 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
370 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
372 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
373 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
375 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
376 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
377 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
379 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
380 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
381 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
384 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
385 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
387 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
388 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
389 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
391 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
392 for the build is renamed.
394 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
395 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
396 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
398 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
399 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
400 result replacing the original.
402 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
403 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
404 and the resources needed to be freed.
406 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
408 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
411 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
412 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
413 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
414 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
416 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
417 length value. Previously this would segfault.
419 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
420 newer versions of the scanner.
422 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
423 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
424 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
425 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
426 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
427 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
428 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
430 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
431 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
432 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
433 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
434 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
435 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
436 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
437 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
438 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
439 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
441 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
442 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
444 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
446 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
447 allows proper process termination in container environments.
449 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
450 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
452 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
453 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
454 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
456 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
457 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
458 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
459 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
461 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
462 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
465 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
466 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
468 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
469 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
470 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
471 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
472 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
474 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
475 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
478 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
479 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
481 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
484 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
485 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
486 "bare" representation.
488 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
489 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
490 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
491 corrupted the output.
497 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
498 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
499 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
500 pairs of long lines into single ones.
502 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
503 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
505 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
506 This permits better logging.
508 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
509 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
510 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
511 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
512 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
513 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
515 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
516 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
519 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
520 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
521 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
523 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
524 than 255 are no longer allowed.
526 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
527 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
528 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
529 client, there is no benefit for these.
530 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
531 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
532 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
535 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
536 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
538 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
539 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
540 erroneously found still-pending ones.
542 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
543 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
545 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
546 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
547 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
548 signature and again for transmission.
550 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
551 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
552 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
554 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
555 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
556 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
557 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
558 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
559 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
560 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
562 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
563 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
564 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
565 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
567 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
568 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
569 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
570 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
571 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
572 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
575 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
576 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
577 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
578 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
581 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
582 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
583 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
584 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
587 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
588 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
591 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
592 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
593 banner-time rejection.
595 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
598 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
599 is the name of a transport.
602 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
604 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
605 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
607 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
608 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
609 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
612 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
613 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
614 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
615 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
617 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
618 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
619 initial verify call returned a defer.
621 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
622 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
624 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
625 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
627 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
628 if present. Previously it was ignored.
630 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
631 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
633 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
634 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
637 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
638 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
640 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
641 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
642 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
644 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
645 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
646 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
647 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
649 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
650 and confused the parent.
652 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
653 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
655 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
658 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
659 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
660 out-of-order delivery.
662 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
663 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
664 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
667 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
668 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
671 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
672 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
673 one run was done. Bug 2189.
675 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
676 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
677 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
678 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
679 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
680 message is still "Temporary local problem".
682 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
683 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
684 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
686 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
687 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
688 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
690 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
691 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
692 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
693 though a different problem.
699 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
700 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
702 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
704 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
705 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
707 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
708 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
710 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
711 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
712 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
713 before acknowledging the chunk.
715 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
716 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
717 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
719 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
720 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
721 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
724 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
725 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
726 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
728 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
729 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
731 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
732 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
733 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
734 body hash calculated value.
736 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
737 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
738 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
740 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
742 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
743 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
745 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
746 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
747 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
749 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
750 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
751 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
752 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
753 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
754 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
756 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
757 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
758 past that check, despite the cost.
760 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
761 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
762 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
764 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
765 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
766 TLS library to consume.
768 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
770 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
772 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
773 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
774 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
775 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
776 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
777 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
778 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
780 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
782 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
784 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
785 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
786 should be warning-free.
788 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
790 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
791 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
793 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
794 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
795 general solution here.
797 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
798 already-broken messages in the queue.
800 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
802 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
808 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
809 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
811 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
812 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
813 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
815 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
816 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
817 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
818 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
819 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
820 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
821 if one fails this test.
822 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
823 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
825 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
826 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
828 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
829 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
831 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
832 in rewrites and routers.
834 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
835 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
837 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
838 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
840 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
842 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
845 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
846 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
847 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
848 connection after a verify cache hit.
849 Do not update it with the verify result either.
851 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
852 when routing results in more than one destination address.
854 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
855 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
856 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
857 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
858 when the cutthrough connection is made).
860 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
861 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
863 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
864 Previously they were not counted.
866 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
867 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
868 that needed the lookup.
870 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
871 distinguished as "(=".
873 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
874 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
876 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
878 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
879 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
881 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
882 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
884 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
885 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
888 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
889 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
890 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
891 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
893 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
895 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
896 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
897 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
899 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
900 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
901 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
904 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
905 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
906 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
909 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
910 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
911 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
913 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
914 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
917 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
919 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
920 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
922 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
923 are not in the system include path.
925 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
926 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
927 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
928 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
930 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
931 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
932 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
934 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
936 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
937 an incoming connection.
939 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
942 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
943 fallback to "prime256v1".
945 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
946 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
952 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
953 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
954 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
955 client dropping the TLS connection.
957 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
958 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
960 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
961 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
962 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
963 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
966 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
967 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
968 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
969 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
970 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
971 check on the next write.
973 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
974 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
975 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
976 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
977 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
979 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
980 mime_regex ACL conditions.
982 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
983 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
984 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
986 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
987 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
988 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
989 an authenticate fail is not an error.
991 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
992 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
994 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
995 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
997 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
998 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
999 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1002 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1004 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1006 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1008 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1009 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1011 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1012 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1014 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1016 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1017 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1019 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1021 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1022 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1024 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1026 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1027 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1028 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1029 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1030 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1031 they will retry in-clear.
1032 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1033 at installation time.
1035 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1036 with the $config_file variable.
1038 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1039 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1040 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1041 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1042 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1044 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1045 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1046 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1047 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1048 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1050 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1052 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1053 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1054 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1055 list order is no longer honoured.
1057 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1058 for DKIM processing.
1060 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1061 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1063 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1064 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1065 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1066 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1068 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1069 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1071 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1072 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1074 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1075 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1077 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1079 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1080 cached by the daemon.
1082 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1083 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1085 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1086 keys are given for lookup.
1088 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1089 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1090 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1091 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1093 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1094 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1095 server-side so match that on older versions.
1097 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1098 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1099 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1101 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1102 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1104 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1105 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1106 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1107 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1108 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1109 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1110 initial truncated version.
1112 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1114 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1116 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1117 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1119 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1121 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1123 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1124 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1127 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1128 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1131 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1132 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1134 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1135 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1138 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1139 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1140 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1142 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1143 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1144 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1145 extraction. Accept either.
1151 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1154 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1156 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1159 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1160 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1161 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1162 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1164 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1165 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1166 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1168 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1169 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1170 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1173 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1176 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1177 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1178 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1179 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1180 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1182 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1183 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1184 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1186 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1188 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1189 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1191 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1192 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1194 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1197 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1198 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1200 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1201 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1202 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1204 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1205 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1206 specify a port-range.
1208 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1209 timeout value per server.
1211 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1212 now have the list separator specified.
1214 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1217 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1220 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1222 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1223 rather than the verbs used.
1225 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1226 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1228 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1230 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1231 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1233 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1234 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1236 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1237 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1239 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1241 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1243 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1244 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1245 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1246 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1248 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1250 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1251 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1253 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1254 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1256 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1258 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1260 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1262 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1263 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1265 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1266 added for tls authenticator.
1268 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1274 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1275 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1276 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1277 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1278 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1279 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1280 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1282 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1283 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1284 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1285 function when detected.
1287 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1288 cause callback expansion.
1290 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1291 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1292 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1293 instead of bool when processing it.
1295 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1296 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1298 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1300 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1302 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1304 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1305 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1307 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1308 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1309 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1310 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1311 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1312 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1314 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1315 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1318 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1319 version 3.3.6 or later.
1321 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1322 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1323 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1324 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1325 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1326 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1329 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1330 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1332 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1333 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1334 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1337 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1338 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1339 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1341 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1342 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1344 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1345 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1348 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1350 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1351 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1353 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1354 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1357 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1359 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1362 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1363 output list separator was used.
1368 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1369 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1372 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1373 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1375 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1377 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1378 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1384 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1386 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1387 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1388 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1389 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1390 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1391 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1393 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1394 utilities have not been installed.
1396 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1397 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1399 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1400 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1402 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1403 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1404 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1405 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1407 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1409 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1410 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1412 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1415 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1417 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1418 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1419 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1421 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1422 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1423 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1424 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1425 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1426 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1428 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1430 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1431 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1433 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1436 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1438 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1440 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1441 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1443 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1444 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1446 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1448 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1450 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1451 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1453 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1454 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1455 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1457 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1458 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1459 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1462 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1464 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1465 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1468 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1469 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1472 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1473 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1475 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1476 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1478 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1480 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1481 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1482 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1484 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1485 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1487 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1488 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1491 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1492 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1493 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1495 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1497 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1498 Christian Aistleitner.
1500 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1502 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1503 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1505 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1506 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1508 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1509 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1511 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1512 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1514 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1515 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1517 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1518 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1519 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1521 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1523 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1524 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1527 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1529 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1530 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1537 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1539 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1540 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1542 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1545 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1546 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1549 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1551 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1552 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1553 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1554 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1555 using channel bindings instead).
1557 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1558 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1559 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1560 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1561 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1564 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1566 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1568 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1569 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1571 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1572 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1573 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1575 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1577 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1579 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1580 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1582 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1584 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1586 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1588 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1589 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1591 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1593 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1594 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1597 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1598 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1600 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1601 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1604 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1606 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1608 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1609 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1611 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1614 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1615 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1617 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1618 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1620 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1622 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1624 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1627 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1630 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1632 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1633 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1634 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1635 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1637 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1639 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1640 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1641 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1642 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1645 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1646 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1647 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1649 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1650 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1651 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1652 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1654 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1655 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1656 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1657 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1658 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1659 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1660 delivery, as in LMTP.
1662 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1663 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1665 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1667 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1671 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1672 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1673 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1674 username as equal to the username.
1676 This change corrects that bug.
1678 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1679 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1680 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1682 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1684 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1685 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1686 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1687 NULL dereference and crash.
1689 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1691 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1692 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1693 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1695 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1697 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1698 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1699 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1700 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1701 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1702 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1703 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1704 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1705 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1706 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1707 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1709 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1710 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1712 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1713 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1716 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1717 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1718 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1719 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1720 an empty string is now equivalent.
1722 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1723 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1724 not performing validation itself.
1726 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1727 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1729 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1732 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1734 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1735 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1736 other false fix of the same issue.
1737 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1740 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1741 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1743 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1744 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1745 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1747 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1748 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1749 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1751 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1753 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1755 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1756 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1758 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1761 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1762 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1763 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1764 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1765 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1767 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1768 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1770 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1771 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1774 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1775 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1776 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1777 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1779 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1781 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1782 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1783 from multiple comments on this bug.
1785 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1787 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1788 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1791 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1792 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1794 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1795 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1801 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1803 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1809 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1810 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1811 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1813 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1815 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1818 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1820 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1822 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1824 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1825 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1827 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1828 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1830 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1831 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1833 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1834 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1835 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1837 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1839 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1840 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1842 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1844 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1846 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1847 non-compliant senders.
1848 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1850 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1851 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1852 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1854 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1855 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1856 in spool file corruption.
1858 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1859 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1860 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1863 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1864 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1865 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1867 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1868 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1870 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1872 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1874 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1876 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1877 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1878 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1880 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1881 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1882 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1883 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1885 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1886 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1888 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1889 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1890 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1891 resolver implementation change.
1893 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1894 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1896 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1898 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1900 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1901 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1903 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1904 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1906 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1907 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1909 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1910 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1911 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1912 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1913 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1915 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1917 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1918 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1919 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1921 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1923 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1924 read-only, out of scope).
1925 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1927 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1928 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1929 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1930 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1932 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1934 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1935 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1936 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1937 real issues in debug logging.
1939 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1940 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1942 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1943 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1944 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1946 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1947 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1948 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1951 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1952 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1954 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1955 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1956 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1957 needs to override this, it can.
1959 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1960 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1961 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1963 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1964 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1965 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1966 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1968 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1974 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1975 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1977 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1979 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1982 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1983 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1985 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1986 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1987 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1989 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1990 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1991 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1992 not safe for signals.
1994 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1995 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1996 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1997 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2000 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2002 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2003 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2004 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2005 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2006 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2008 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2009 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2010 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2011 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2012 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2013 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2015 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2016 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2017 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2018 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2020 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2021 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2022 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2023 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2025 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2026 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2027 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2028 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2029 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2030 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2031 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2032 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2033 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2035 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2036 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2037 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2038 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2040 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2041 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2042 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2043 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2044 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2045 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2046 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2047 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2048 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2049 details in the main documentation.
2051 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2053 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2055 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2056 repository when doing development or release builds.
2058 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2059 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2061 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2062 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2065 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2067 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2068 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2070 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2071 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2073 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2074 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2076 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2077 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2079 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2080 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2082 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2084 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2087 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2088 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2089 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2091 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2093 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2095 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2096 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2102 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2104 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2105 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2107 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2109 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2111 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2114 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2115 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2117 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2118 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2120 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2121 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2123 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2126 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2127 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2129 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2130 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2131 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2132 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2134 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2135 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2141 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2144 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2145 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2146 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2148 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2149 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2151 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2152 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2153 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2155 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2156 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2158 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2159 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2161 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2162 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2164 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2165 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2167 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2168 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2170 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2173 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2174 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2176 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2177 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2179 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2180 SQL string expansion failure details.
2181 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2183 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2184 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2186 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2187 extern declarations in function scope.
2188 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2190 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2191 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2192 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2195 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2196 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2198 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2199 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2201 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2202 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2204 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2205 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2207 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2208 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2211 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2213 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2215 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2216 Patch by Simon Arlott
2218 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2219 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2225 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2226 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2228 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2229 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2231 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2233 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2234 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2235 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2237 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2238 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2239 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2241 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2242 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2243 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2244 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2246 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2247 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2248 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2249 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2251 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2252 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2253 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2256 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2259 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2260 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2261 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2262 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2263 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2269 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2270 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2271 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2273 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2274 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2276 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2278 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2280 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2282 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2284 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2286 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2287 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2288 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2289 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2291 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2292 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2293 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2294 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2295 more caution in buffer sizes.
2297 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2299 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2301 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2303 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2305 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2307 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2309 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2311 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2312 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2313 ignore trailing whitespace.
2315 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2317 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2320 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2321 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2323 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2324 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2325 Notification from John Horne.
2327 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2330 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2331 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2334 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2337 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2338 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2339 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2341 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2342 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2343 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2346 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2347 option (effectively making it always true).
2349 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2350 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2352 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2353 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2355 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2356 run-time user, instead of root.
2358 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2359 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2361 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2362 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2365 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2366 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2367 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2369 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2371 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2377 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2378 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2381 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2382 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2385 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2386 Patch from Alain Williams
2388 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2390 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2391 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2393 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2394 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2396 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2398 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2400 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2401 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2403 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2405 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2407 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2408 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2409 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2411 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2412 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2414 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2415 Patch by Simon Arlott
2417 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2418 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2424 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2426 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2428 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2430 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2432 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2438 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2439 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2441 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2442 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2445 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2446 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2447 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2449 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2450 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2452 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2453 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2454 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2455 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2457 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2458 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2459 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2461 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2463 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2465 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2466 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2468 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2470 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2471 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2472 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2473 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2475 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2476 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2478 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2480 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2482 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2483 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2485 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2486 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2488 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2489 that they are available at delivery time.
2491 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2493 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2494 incoming_port log selectors.
2496 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2497 setting expands to an empty string.
2499 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2500 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2502 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2503 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2505 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2506 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2508 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2509 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2511 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2512 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2514 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2515 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2517 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2519 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2520 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2522 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2523 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2525 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2527 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2528 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2530 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2532 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2534 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2537 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2538 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2540 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2541 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2543 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2544 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2546 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2547 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2549 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2550 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2552 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2553 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2555 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2556 plus update to original patch.
2558 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2560 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2561 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2563 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2565 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2567 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2569 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2571 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2572 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2574 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2575 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2577 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2578 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2580 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2581 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2583 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2585 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2587 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2589 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2595 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2596 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2597 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2599 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2600 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2601 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2602 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2603 build errors in sieve.c.
2605 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2606 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2607 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2609 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2611 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2613 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2615 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2621 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2623 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2624 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2625 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2626 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2627 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2628 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2629 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2630 for iplsearch lookups.
2632 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2633 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2634 previously such lookups could never work.
2636 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2637 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2638 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2640 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2643 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2644 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2645 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2646 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2647 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2648 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2650 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2651 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2653 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2654 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2655 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2656 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2657 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2658 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2660 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2663 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2665 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2666 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2669 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2670 by clients under certain conditions.
2672 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2673 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2675 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2677 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2678 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2680 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2682 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2684 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2686 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2687 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2689 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2691 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2692 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2694 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2696 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2698 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2699 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2700 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2701 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2703 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2704 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2705 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2707 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2708 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2710 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2712 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2714 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2716 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2717 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2718 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2724 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2725 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2728 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2729 issue a MAIL command.
2731 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2733 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2735 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2736 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2737 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2738 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2739 item. This has been fixed.
2741 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2742 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2744 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2745 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2747 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2748 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2749 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2751 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2753 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2754 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2755 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2756 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2757 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2759 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2760 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2761 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2763 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2764 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2765 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2766 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2768 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2770 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2772 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2773 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2774 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2775 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2776 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2778 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2780 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2781 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2782 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2785 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2787 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2789 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2791 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2793 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2795 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2796 no_callout_flush is set.
2798 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2799 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2800 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2803 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2805 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2806 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2807 other ACL rejections are.
2809 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2810 with slight modification.
2812 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2813 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2815 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2816 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2819 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2820 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2822 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2824 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2825 expansion side effects.
2827 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2828 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2829 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2832 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2833 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2834 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2836 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2837 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2838 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2839 were accidentally chopped off.
2841 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2842 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2843 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2844 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2845 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2846 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2847 pipelining has not been advertised.
2849 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2851 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2852 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2853 This has been fixed.
2855 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2856 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2857 reported on Solaris.
2859 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2860 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2861 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2862 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2863 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2864 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2865 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2867 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2870 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2872 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2874 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2875 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2876 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2877 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2878 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2879 criteria to be more general.
2881 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2882 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2883 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2884 host_all_ignored option.
2886 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2887 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2888 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2889 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2890 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2891 is what is supposed to happen).
2893 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2894 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2895 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2896 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2897 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2900 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2901 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2902 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2903 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2904 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2905 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2908 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2910 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2911 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2913 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2914 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2916 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2918 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2920 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2921 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2922 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2923 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2924 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2925 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2926 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2927 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2928 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2929 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2930 least in a lot of common cases.
2932 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2933 advertised in response to EHLO.
2939 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2940 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2942 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2943 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2945 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2946 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2947 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2949 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2950 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2951 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2952 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2953 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2959 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2960 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2963 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2964 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2965 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2967 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2968 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2969 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2970 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2971 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2972 rather than extend the field.
2978 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2979 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2980 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2981 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2984 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2985 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2986 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2988 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2989 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2990 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2992 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2993 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2994 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2997 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2998 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2999 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3000 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3001 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3002 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3003 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3004 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3005 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3006 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3007 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3009 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3012 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3013 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3014 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3015 ignores EPIPE as well.
3017 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3018 (quoted-printable decoding).
3020 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3021 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3023 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3025 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3027 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3029 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3030 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3032 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3035 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3036 miscellaneous code fixes
3038 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3041 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3042 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3043 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3044 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3045 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3046 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3047 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3048 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3050 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3051 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3052 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3053 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3055 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3056 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3057 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3058 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3059 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3060 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3061 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3062 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3063 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3065 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3068 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3069 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3070 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3071 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3072 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3073 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3074 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3075 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3077 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3078 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3081 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3082 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3083 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3084 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3085 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3086 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3087 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3088 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3089 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3090 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3091 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3092 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3093 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3095 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3096 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3097 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3098 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3099 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3100 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3101 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3103 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3104 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3105 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3106 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3107 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3108 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3109 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3110 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3111 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3112 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3114 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3115 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3116 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3117 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3118 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3120 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3121 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3122 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3123 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3124 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3125 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3126 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3128 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3129 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3130 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3131 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3132 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3133 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3136 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3137 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3138 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3141 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3142 if any retry times were supplied.
3144 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3145 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3146 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3148 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3150 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3152 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3153 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3154 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3155 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3156 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3157 before) are ignored.
3159 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3160 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3162 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3163 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3164 committing the later change.]
3166 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3167 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3168 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3169 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3170 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3171 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3172 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3173 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3174 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3176 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3177 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3178 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3179 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3180 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3181 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3182 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3183 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3184 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3186 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3187 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3188 hammering the server.
3190 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3191 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3193 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3195 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3196 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3197 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3199 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3200 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3201 one case where this was not true.
3203 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3204 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3205 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3206 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3209 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3210 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3211 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3212 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3213 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3214 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3215 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3216 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3217 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3220 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3221 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3222 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3223 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3225 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3226 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3228 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3229 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3230 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3232 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3234 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3236 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3238 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3239 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3240 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3241 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3243 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3244 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3246 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3247 be meaningful with "accept".
3249 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3250 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3252 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3253 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3254 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3256 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3257 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3258 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3259 there is data to show.
3260 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3262 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3263 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3264 as well as the number of messages.
3266 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3267 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3268 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3270 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3271 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3272 have a flag are now skipped.
3274 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3275 Added the -emptyok flag.
3277 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3278 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3280 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3281 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3282 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3284 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3287 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3288 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3290 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3292 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3293 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3295 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3297 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3298 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3299 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3300 contravention of the specifications.
3302 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3303 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3304 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3306 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3307 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3308 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3310 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3312 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3313 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3314 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3315 some point in the past.
3317 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3318 transport during callout processing was broken.
3320 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3321 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3323 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3324 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3326 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3327 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3329 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3335 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3336 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3338 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3339 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3340 there is data to show.
3341 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3343 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3344 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3346 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3347 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3349 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3350 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3352 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3353 submissions from trusted users.
3355 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3356 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3358 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3359 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3360 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3361 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3362 there is now a framework to start from.
3364 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3365 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3366 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3368 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3370 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3372 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3374 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3375 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3376 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3378 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3381 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3382 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3383 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3385 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3386 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3387 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3390 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3391 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3392 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3393 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3394 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3396 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3397 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3399 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3401 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3402 operations in malware.c.
3404 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3407 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3408 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3409 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3412 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3413 statements to "add_header".
3415 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3416 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3418 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3419 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3422 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3426 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3427 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3428 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3431 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3432 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3434 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3435 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3437 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3438 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3439 any possible encoding problems.
3441 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3442 but not after initializing Perl.
3444 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3445 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3446 apparently, which is not desirable.
3448 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3451 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3454 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3456 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3457 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3458 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3459 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3461 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3462 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3463 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3465 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3466 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3467 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3470 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3471 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3472 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3473 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3474 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3480 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3481 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3483 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3486 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3487 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3488 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3489 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3490 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3491 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3492 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3493 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3496 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3498 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3499 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3500 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3502 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3503 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3504 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3507 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3508 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3510 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3511 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3512 option (which defaults to 0600).
3514 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3516 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3517 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3518 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3519 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3520 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3521 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3522 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3524 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3530 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3531 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3532 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3533 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3534 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3535 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3538 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3539 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3541 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3543 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3544 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3545 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3546 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3547 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3550 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3551 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3553 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3554 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3555 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3556 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3557 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3559 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3560 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3561 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3562 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3564 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3565 be the same on different OS.
3567 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3570 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3571 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3573 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3576 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3577 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3578 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3579 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3580 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3581 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3584 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3585 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3586 when Exim was called.
3588 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3589 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3591 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3592 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3593 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3594 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3596 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3597 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3598 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3599 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3602 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3603 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3604 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3606 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3607 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3608 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3610 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3613 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3614 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3615 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3616 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3617 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3618 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3619 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3620 values from the SRV records were lost.
3622 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3623 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3624 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3626 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3627 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3628 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3630 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3631 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3632 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3633 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3634 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3635 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3636 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3637 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3638 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3639 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3641 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3642 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3643 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3645 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3646 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3648 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3649 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3650 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3651 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3654 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3655 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3656 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3658 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3659 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3660 PH/23 above applies.
3662 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3663 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3664 (for which there is an explicit test).
3666 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3668 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3669 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3670 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3671 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3672 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3674 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3675 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3676 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3677 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3679 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3680 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3681 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3683 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3685 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3687 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3688 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3689 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3691 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3692 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3693 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3694 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3695 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3697 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3698 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3699 the message gets confusing).
3701 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3702 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3703 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3704 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3706 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3707 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3708 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3709 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3712 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3713 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3714 the different processes.
3716 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3718 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3720 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3721 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3723 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3724 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3726 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3727 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3728 messages matching specified criteria.
3730 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3732 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3733 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3735 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3736 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3737 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3738 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3739 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3740 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3741 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3742 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3743 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3744 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3746 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3747 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3748 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3750 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3752 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3753 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3754 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3755 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3756 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3757 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3758 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3761 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3762 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3764 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3766 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3768 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3770 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3771 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3772 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3773 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3774 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3775 size of the count of files.
3777 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3779 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3782 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3783 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3784 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3785 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3787 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3788 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3789 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3791 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3792 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3793 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3794 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3795 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3797 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3798 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3800 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3801 will now be deprecated.
3803 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3805 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3806 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3807 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3809 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3810 with very large, slow to parse queues
3812 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3814 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3816 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3817 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3818 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3821 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3822 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3823 Sieve code now uses this.
3825 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3826 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3828 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3829 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3831 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3833 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3834 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3835 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3836 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3837 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3839 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3840 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3841 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3842 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3844 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3846 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3848 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3849 is preferred over IPv4.
3851 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3852 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3853 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3854 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3855 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3856 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3857 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3859 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3860 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3861 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3863 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3865 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3866 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3867 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3868 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3869 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3870 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3871 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3872 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3873 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3874 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3875 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3877 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3878 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3879 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3885 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3887 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3888 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3890 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3891 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3892 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3894 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3896 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3899 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3902 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3903 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3904 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3907 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3908 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3910 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3911 inside the third argument.
3913 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3914 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3917 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3918 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3920 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3921 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3923 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3925 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3926 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3929 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3931 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3932 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3933 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3934 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3935 identical. For example:
3937 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3939 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3940 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3941 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3943 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3944 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3945 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3946 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3948 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3949 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3950 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3953 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3955 o fixes some comments
3956 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3957 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3958 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3959 and documents the missing references header update
3963 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3964 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3967 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3968 Electronic Mail") by including:
3970 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3972 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3973 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3974 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3975 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3976 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3978 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3980 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3982 The auto-replied keyword:
3984 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3985 message by an automatic process,
3987 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3989 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3990 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3992 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3993 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3996 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3997 to the default Received: header definition.
3999 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4001 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4002 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4003 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4005 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4006 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4007 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4009 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4010 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4011 and treats the condition as false.
4013 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4015 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4016 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4017 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4018 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4019 not changing the active code.
4021 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4022 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4024 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4025 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4027 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4030 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4031 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4032 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4033 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4034 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4035 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4036 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4037 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4038 the text comparison.
4040 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4041 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4042 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4043 The same fix has been applied.
4049 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4050 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4053 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4054 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4056 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4058 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4059 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4060 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4061 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4062 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4064 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4065 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4066 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4067 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4070 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4078 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4079 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4081 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4083 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4085 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4086 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4087 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4089 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4090 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4091 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4093 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4094 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4097 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4098 ${stat: expansion item.
4100 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4101 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4103 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4104 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4107 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4109 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4112 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4113 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4115 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4117 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4118 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4119 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4120 the end of the subprocess.
4122 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4123 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4124 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4125 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4126 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4128 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4130 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4132 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4133 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4135 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4137 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4139 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4140 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4143 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4145 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4146 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4147 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4149 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4150 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4152 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4153 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4155 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4156 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4158 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4159 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4161 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4162 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4163 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4164 contributed by a Radius user.
4166 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4167 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4169 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4170 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4172 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4175 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4176 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4179 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4180 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4181 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4182 header lines when this was not necessary.
4184 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4186 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4187 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4188 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4191 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4194 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4195 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4196 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4197 return code was incorrect.
4199 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4201 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4203 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4205 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4207 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4208 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4209 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4210 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4211 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4214 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4216 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4217 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4218 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4219 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4220 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4221 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4222 which is clearly wrong.
4224 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4226 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4227 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4228 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4231 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4232 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4234 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4236 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4237 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4239 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4240 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4242 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4243 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4245 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4246 recipients, not senders.
4248 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4249 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4251 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4253 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4255 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4256 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4257 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4258 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4260 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4262 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4263 clock is set back in time.
4265 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4266 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4268 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4269 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4271 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4272 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4275 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4276 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4279 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4282 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4284 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4285 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4286 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4288 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4289 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4290 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4291 helo verification defer as a failure.
4293 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4294 actual error message.
4300 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4302 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4303 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4304 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4305 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4307 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4309 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4310 can still be requested.
4312 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4313 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4314 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4315 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4317 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4318 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4319 circumstances, but probably never did.
4321 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4322 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4323 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4326 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4328 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4329 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4331 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4333 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4335 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4336 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4337 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4338 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4339 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4340 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4342 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4343 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4344 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4345 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4346 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4347 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4349 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4350 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4352 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4353 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4355 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4356 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4358 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4360 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4362 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4364 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4366 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4368 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4370 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4372 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4373 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4374 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4376 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4377 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4378 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4379 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4381 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4382 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4383 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4385 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4386 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4387 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4388 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4390 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4391 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4394 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4395 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4396 should work with maildirs and everything.
4398 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4399 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4401 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4404 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4405 function for BDB 4.3.
4407 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4409 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4410 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4413 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4414 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4415 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4416 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4417 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4418 formatting function string_vformat().
4420 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4421 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4422 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4423 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4424 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4425 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4426 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4427 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4429 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4430 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4433 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4434 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4436 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4437 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4438 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4439 test. It is now used for both.
4441 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4442 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4443 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4444 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4445 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4446 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4448 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4449 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4450 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4453 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4454 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4455 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4457 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4458 experimental DomainKeys support:
4460 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4461 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4462 the control was given.
4464 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4466 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4468 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4470 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4471 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4472 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4475 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4476 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4477 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4478 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4479 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4480 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4483 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4484 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4485 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4486 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4487 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4488 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4490 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4491 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4492 do -d+all out of habit.
4494 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4495 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4498 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4499 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4500 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4501 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4502 record types that Exim uses.
4504 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4505 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4506 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4507 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4508 non-existent file that was broken.
4510 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4511 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4513 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4514 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4515 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4517 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4519 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4520 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4521 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4522 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4523 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4526 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4527 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4528 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4529 at a slight CPU cost.
4531 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4532 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4534 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4537 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4539 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4540 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4546 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4547 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4549 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4551 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4553 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4554 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4556 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4557 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4558 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4559 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4560 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4561 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4564 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4565 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4566 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4567 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4570 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4571 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4572 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4573 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4574 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4575 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4576 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4579 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4580 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4582 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4583 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4584 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4585 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4586 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4587 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4589 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4590 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4591 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4592 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4594 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4597 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4598 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4600 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4601 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4602 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4603 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4606 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4608 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4609 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4611 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4612 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4613 to what was transported.)
4615 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4617 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4618 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4619 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4620 spamd_address settings.
4622 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4623 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4624 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4625 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4626 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4628 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4630 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4631 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4632 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4633 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4634 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4636 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4637 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4639 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4640 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4641 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4642 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4643 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4644 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4645 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4648 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4649 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4650 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4651 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4652 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4653 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4654 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4657 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4659 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4660 driver and ACL definitions.
4662 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4663 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4665 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4666 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4667 understands it better than I do:
4669 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4670 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4672 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4673 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4674 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4675 => three warnings about OTP not working
4676 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4678 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4679 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4680 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4681 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4683 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4684 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4686 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4687 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4688 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4690 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4691 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4694 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4695 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4698 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4699 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4700 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4702 warn !verify = sender
4703 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4705 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4706 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4708 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4710 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4711 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4713 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4714 nomenclature these days.)
4716 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4717 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4719 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4720 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4721 . First host does not offer TLS;
4722 . First host accepts first address;
4723 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4724 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4725 . Second host accepts second address.
4726 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4727 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4730 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4731 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4732 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4733 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4734 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4736 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4737 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4739 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4740 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4742 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4743 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4744 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4746 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4747 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4750 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4752 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4753 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4754 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4755 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4756 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4757 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4758 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4760 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4761 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4762 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4763 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4764 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4766 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4767 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4770 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4771 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4772 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4773 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4774 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4775 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4777 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4779 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4780 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4781 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4782 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4783 printable escape sequences.
4785 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4786 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4789 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4790 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4793 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4794 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4795 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4796 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4797 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4799 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4800 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4801 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4803 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4805 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4806 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4809 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4810 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4811 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4812 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4813 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4814 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4815 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4816 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4817 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4820 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4821 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4822 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4823 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4827 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4828 ----------------------------------------
4830 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4831 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4832 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4833 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4834 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4835 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4838 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4839 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4840 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4841 historical information.
4847 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4849 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4850 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4852 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4853 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4856 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4857 filter fails to execute.
4859 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4860 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4861 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4862 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4863 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4865 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4867 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4868 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4869 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4870 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4872 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4873 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4874 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4875 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4876 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4878 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4880 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4882 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4883 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4884 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4885 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4887 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4888 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4889 sender verification.
4891 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4892 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4894 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4896 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4899 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4900 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4902 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4903 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4905 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4906 information about exactly what failed.
4908 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4910 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4911 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4912 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4914 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4915 It is now set to "smtps".
4917 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4918 ignore_target_hosts.
4920 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4921 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4922 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4923 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4926 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4927 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4928 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4930 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4931 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4932 wake it up if nothing else does.
4934 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4935 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4936 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4939 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4940 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4942 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4944 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4945 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4946 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4947 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4948 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4949 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4950 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4951 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4953 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4954 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4955 than one IP address.
4957 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4958 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4959 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4960 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4962 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4963 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4964 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4965 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4966 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4969 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4970 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4971 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4972 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4974 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4975 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4978 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4979 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4980 $sender_host_address.
4982 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4983 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4984 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4985 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4986 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4989 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4991 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4992 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4994 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4995 just the host names, not the priorities.
4997 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4998 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4999 controlled by a keyword.
5001 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5002 multiple records are returned.
5004 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5005 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5008 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5010 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5011 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5013 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5014 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5015 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5017 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5019 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5021 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5023 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5024 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5025 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5026 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5027 because the tests only now provoked it.
5029 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5030 (this can affect the format of dates).
5032 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5033 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5034 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5035 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5037 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5039 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5040 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5041 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5042 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5044 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5045 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5046 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5048 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5051 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5052 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5053 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5054 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5055 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5056 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5059 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5060 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5061 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5064 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5065 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5066 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5068 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5069 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5070 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5071 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5072 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5073 so I produce this patch..."
5075 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5076 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5079 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5080 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5081 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5082 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5085 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5087 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5088 long debug lines gets shown.
5090 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5091 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5093 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5095 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5096 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5097 of $primary_hostname.
5099 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5100 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5101 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5102 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5103 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5104 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5105 by change 4.50/55 above.
5107 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5108 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5109 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5110 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5111 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5112 running as the user.
5115 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5116 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5117 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5120 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5121 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5123 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5124 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5125 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5126 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5127 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5129 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5130 This has been fixed.
5132 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5133 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5134 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5135 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5138 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5140 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5141 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5142 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5143 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5145 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5146 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5148 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5149 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5150 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5152 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5153 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5154 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5157 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5158 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5159 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5161 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5162 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5163 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5164 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5166 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5167 during host lookups.
5169 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5170 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5172 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5174 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5175 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5176 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5177 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5178 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5181 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5182 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5184 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5185 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5186 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5188 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5190 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5191 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5192 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5193 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5194 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5195 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5198 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5199 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5200 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5201 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5202 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5204 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5207 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5209 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5210 "vacation" handling.
5212 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5213 OS variants using glibc.
5215 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5218 ----------------------------------------------------
5219 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5220 ----------------------------------------------------
5226 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5227 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5230 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5231 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5234 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5235 filter fails to execute.
5237 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5238 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5239 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5240 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5241 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5243 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5244 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5245 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5246 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5248 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5249 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5250 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5251 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5252 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5254 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5256 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5257 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5258 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5259 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5261 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5262 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5263 sender verification.
5265 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5266 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5268 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5269 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5271 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5272 ignore_target_hosts.
5274 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5275 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5276 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5277 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5280 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5281 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5282 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5284 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5285 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5286 wake it up if nothing else does.
5288 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5289 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5290 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5293 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5294 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5296 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5298 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5299 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5302 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5303 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5306 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5307 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5308 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5309 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5310 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5313 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5314 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5317 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5318 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5319 $sender_host_address.
5321 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5323 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5324 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5325 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5327 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5330 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5331 (this can affect the format of dates).
5333 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5334 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5335 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5336 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5338 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5339 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5340 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5342 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5343 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5344 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5345 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5347 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5348 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5349 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5351 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5354 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5355 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5356 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5357 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5358 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5359 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5362 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5363 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5364 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5365 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5368 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5369 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5370 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5371 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5372 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5373 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5374 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5376 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5377 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5378 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5379 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5380 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5381 running as the user.
5384 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5385 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5386 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5389 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5390 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5391 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5392 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5393 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5395 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5396 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5397 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5398 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5401 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5402 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5403 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5404 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5405 because the tests only now provoked it.
5411 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5412 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5413 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5414 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5415 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5416 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5417 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5419 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5420 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5423 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5425 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5427 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5428 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5431 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5432 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5433 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5434 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5435 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5437 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5438 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5440 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5442 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5444 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5447 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5448 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5450 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5451 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5452 affecting debugging statements).
5454 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5456 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5457 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5458 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5459 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5460 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5461 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5462 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5463 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5464 after the received time, and all would be well.
5466 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5467 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5468 condition in an expansion string.
5470 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5472 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5473 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5474 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5475 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5476 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5477 job under whatever limits there are.
5479 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5481 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5484 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5485 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5486 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5487 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5490 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5491 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5492 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5493 binary data in such strings.
5495 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5497 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5498 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5499 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5500 failure, which is pointless.
5502 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5504 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5506 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5507 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5508 Sender: header lines.
5510 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5511 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5512 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5514 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5515 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5516 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5517 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5518 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5521 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5522 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5523 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5524 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5525 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5527 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5528 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5529 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5532 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5533 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5535 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5536 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5538 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5540 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5542 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5544 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5547 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5549 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5551 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5552 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5553 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5554 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5556 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5557 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5563 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5564 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5565 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5567 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5568 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5569 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5570 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5571 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5572 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5574 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5575 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5576 verification failure".
5578 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5579 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5580 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5581 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5583 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5584 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5585 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5586 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5587 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5588 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5589 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5590 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5591 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5592 treated as a timeout.
5594 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5595 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5596 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5597 not set for Exim filters).
5599 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5600 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5601 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5603 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5605 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5606 try to make them clearer.
5608 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5609 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5611 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5613 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5615 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5616 only the Cygwin environment.
5618 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5619 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5620 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5621 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5622 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5624 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5625 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5626 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5627 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5628 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5629 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5630 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5632 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5633 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5635 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5637 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5638 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5639 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5641 To: susanne@some.where
5643 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5644 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5645 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5646 of addresses in From: header lines).
5648 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5649 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5650 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5652 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5653 treated as non-personal.
5655 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5656 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5658 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5660 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5662 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5663 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5664 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5666 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5667 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5669 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5670 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5671 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5672 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5673 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5674 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5676 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5677 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5678 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5679 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5680 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5681 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5682 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5683 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5685 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5687 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5688 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5690 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5691 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5692 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5694 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5695 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5697 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5698 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5699 rather than long int.
5701 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5703 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5709 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5710 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5711 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5712 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5713 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5714 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5720 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5721 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5723 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5724 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5725 socklen_t is defined.
5727 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5730 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5733 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5734 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5735 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5736 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5737 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5739 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5740 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5741 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5742 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5744 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5745 of flapping under certain conditions.
5747 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5748 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5749 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5751 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5753 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5755 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5756 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5757 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5758 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5760 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5761 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5762 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5763 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5764 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5765 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5766 preserved with the message after it was received.
5768 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5769 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5770 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5771 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5772 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5773 test suite worked just fine.
5775 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5776 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5777 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5779 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5780 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5783 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5784 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5785 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5786 does not fully solve it.
5788 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5789 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5790 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5791 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5792 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5794 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5795 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5796 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5798 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5799 string, for example:
5801 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5803 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5804 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5805 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5806 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5807 the routers could not see them.
5809 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5810 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5812 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5813 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5816 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5817 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5818 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5819 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5820 that needed quoting.
5822 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5823 was not being matched caselessly.
5825 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5828 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5829 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5830 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5831 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5832 when use_sender is false.
5834 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5836 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5838 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5840 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5841 the configuration file.
5843 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5844 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5846 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5848 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5849 bytes in the message body.
5851 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5852 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5855 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5857 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5859 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5860 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5861 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5862 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5869 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5870 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5872 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5873 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5874 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5875 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5876 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5878 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5879 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5881 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5882 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5883 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5885 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5886 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5887 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5889 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5892 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5893 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5894 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5895 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5896 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5897 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5898 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5904 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5905 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5906 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5907 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5908 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5909 default (and expected) setting.
5911 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5912 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5913 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5914 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5916 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5917 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5919 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5922 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5923 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5924 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5925 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5926 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5927 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5929 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5930 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5931 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5933 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5934 part (NOT match_host).
5936 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5938 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5939 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5940 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5941 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5942 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5943 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5944 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5945 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5946 the same named file.
5948 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5949 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5952 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5953 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5954 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5955 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5958 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5959 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5960 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5962 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5964 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5966 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5968 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5969 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5971 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5972 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5973 before starting the TLS session.
5975 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5977 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5978 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5980 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5981 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5982 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5983 colon in the middle).
5989 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5990 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5991 multiple configurations are in use.
5993 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5994 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5995 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5996 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5997 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5998 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6000 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6001 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6003 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6004 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6005 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6007 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6008 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6011 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6012 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6014 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6016 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6017 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6019 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6027 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6028 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6029 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6030 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6031 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6033 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6036 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6037 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6038 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6039 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6040 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6041 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6043 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6044 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6045 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6046 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6047 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6048 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6049 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6052 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6053 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6054 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6055 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6056 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6058 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6060 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6061 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6062 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6064 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6066 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6067 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6068 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6071 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6072 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6074 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6075 Three changes have been made:
6077 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6078 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6079 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6080 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6081 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6083 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6086 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6087 the modified behaviour.
6093 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6096 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6097 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6099 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6100 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6101 try to track down a specific problem.
6103 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6104 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6105 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6107 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6110 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6111 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6112 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6113 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6114 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6115 some earlier ones do not.
6117 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6119 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6120 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6121 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6122 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6123 address literals are enabled, of course).
6125 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6127 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6128 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6129 by a command such as
6133 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6135 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6137 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6138 remained set. It is now erased.
6140 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6141 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6143 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6144 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6145 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6146 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6147 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6148 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6149 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6150 appropriate error code.
6152 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6153 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6154 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6155 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6156 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6157 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6159 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6160 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6161 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6163 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6164 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6165 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6166 terminate the header.
6168 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6169 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6170 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6172 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6173 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6174 (4.30/29). In particular:
6176 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6179 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6180 to write a maildirsize file.
6182 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6183 the transport, the new value overrides.
6185 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6188 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6189 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6190 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6193 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6194 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6195 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6198 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6199 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6200 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6202 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6203 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6206 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6207 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6208 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6210 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6212 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6214 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6216 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6217 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6220 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6221 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6222 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6223 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6224 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6225 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6226 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6229 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6230 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6231 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6232 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6233 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6236 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6237 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6238 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6239 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6240 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6241 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6242 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6243 cached value only when the same options are set.
6245 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6247 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6248 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6249 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6250 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6251 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6253 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6254 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6255 it is clearly obsolete.
6257 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6260 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6261 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6262 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6265 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6266 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6267 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6268 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6269 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6271 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6272 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6273 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6274 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6276 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6278 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6280 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6281 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6284 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6285 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6286 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6287 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6288 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6289 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6292 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6293 with the -f command-line option.
6295 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6296 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6297 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6298 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6299 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6300 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6302 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6303 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6306 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6307 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6308 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6309 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6310 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6311 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6312 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6313 buffer is too small.
6315 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6316 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6318 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6319 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6320 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6321 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6322 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6323 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6324 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6325 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6326 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6328 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6329 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6330 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6332 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6333 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6336 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6337 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6338 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6339 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6340 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6342 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6343 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6344 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6345 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6348 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6350 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6352 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6353 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6355 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6356 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6357 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6359 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6360 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6361 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6362 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6363 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6365 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6366 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6367 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6368 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6369 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6370 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6371 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6373 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6374 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6375 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6376 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6377 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6378 the test of how many are available.
6380 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6381 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6382 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6383 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6384 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6385 new message is started.
6387 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6388 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6390 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6391 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6393 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6394 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6395 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6398 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6399 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6400 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6401 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6402 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6403 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6404 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6406 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6407 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6408 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6409 interpreted as octal.
6411 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6414 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6415 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6416 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6417 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6418 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6419 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6421 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6422 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6423 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6424 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6426 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6427 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6428 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6429 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6431 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6432 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6435 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6436 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6438 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6440 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6441 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6442 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6443 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6445 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6446 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6447 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6448 supplied", which is not helpful.
6450 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6451 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6452 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6454 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6455 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6456 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6457 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6458 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6459 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6460 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6461 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6463 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6464 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6465 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6466 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6467 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6469 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6470 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6471 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6472 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6473 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6474 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6476 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6477 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6478 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6480 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6482 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6483 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6484 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6487 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6489 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6490 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6491 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6492 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6493 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6494 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6495 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6496 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6498 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6499 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6500 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6501 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6502 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6504 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6507 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6508 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6509 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6510 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6511 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6512 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6513 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6514 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6515 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6521 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6522 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6523 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6525 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6528 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6529 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6530 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6532 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6533 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6534 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6535 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6536 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6537 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6539 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6540 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6541 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6542 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6543 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6544 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6545 the Exim test suite.
6547 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6548 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6549 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6550 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6552 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6553 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6554 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6555 specify it in this variable.
6557 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6558 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6559 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6560 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6562 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6563 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6564 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6565 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6567 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6568 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6569 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6570 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6571 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6573 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6575 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6578 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6579 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6580 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6581 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6582 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6584 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6585 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6587 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6588 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6589 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6590 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6591 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6593 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6594 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6596 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6597 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6598 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6600 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6601 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6603 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6604 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6606 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6607 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6608 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6610 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6611 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6613 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6614 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6615 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6616 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6618 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6620 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6621 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6622 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6623 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6625 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6627 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6628 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6630 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6632 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6633 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6634 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6635 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6636 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6637 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6639 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6641 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6642 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6645 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6647 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6648 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6650 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6651 550 Sender verify failed
6653 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6654 the final line of the response.
6656 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6657 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6658 all other user lookups.
6660 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6663 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6664 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6665 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6666 result into an int without checking.
6668 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6669 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6670 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6672 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6673 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6674 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6675 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6677 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6680 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6681 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6683 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6684 to the empty sender.
6686 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6687 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6688 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6689 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6690 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6691 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6692 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6695 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6696 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6697 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6698 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6701 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6702 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6704 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6707 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6708 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6710 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6712 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6713 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6716 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6717 as soon as it is encountered.
6719 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6721 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6724 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6725 recognizes a tab character.
6727 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6728 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6729 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6730 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6732 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6734 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6737 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6739 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6741 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6742 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6745 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6746 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6747 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6748 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6749 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6751 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6752 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6754 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6755 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6756 list (.included file names were always shown).
6758 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6759 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6760 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6763 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6764 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6766 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6768 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6770 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6772 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6773 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6774 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6775 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6776 failures to open the logs.
6778 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6779 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6780 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6781 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6782 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6783 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6784 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6790 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6791 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6792 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6795 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6796 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6797 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6799 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6800 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6801 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6803 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6804 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6805 causing some misleading effects.
6807 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6808 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6809 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6811 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6812 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6813 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6814 queue-runner function directly.
6820 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6823 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6824 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6825 was always written to the default place.
6827 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6828 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6829 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6831 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6833 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6835 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6836 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6837 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6839 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6840 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6843 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6844 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6845 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6847 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6848 command line option is disabled.
6850 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6851 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6853 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6855 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6857 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6858 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6860 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6862 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6863 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6864 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6865 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6866 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6867 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6869 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6870 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6873 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6874 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6876 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6877 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6879 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6880 received was valid base64.
6882 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6883 name of the variable that was being set.
6885 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6887 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6888 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6889 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6890 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6891 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6892 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6894 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6896 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6897 nor realm was specified.
6899 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6900 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6901 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6902 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6904 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6905 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6906 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6908 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6909 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6910 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6912 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6913 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6914 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6915 some systems use these upper case variants.
6917 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6918 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6919 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6920 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6922 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6924 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6925 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6927 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6928 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6931 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6933 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6934 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6935 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6936 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6938 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6941 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6942 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6943 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6945 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6946 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6948 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6949 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6950 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6951 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6953 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6954 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6955 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6957 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6959 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6960 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6961 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6962 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6965 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6966 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6967 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6969 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6971 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6972 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6974 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6975 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6977 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6978 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6979 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6980 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6981 when emails are that large.
6988 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6989 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6991 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6992 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6993 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6995 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6996 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6997 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6999 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7000 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7001 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7002 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7003 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7005 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7006 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7007 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7008 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7009 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7012 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7013 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7014 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7015 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7016 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7017 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7018 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7019 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7020 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7021 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7022 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7023 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7024 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7025 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7027 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7028 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7031 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7032 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7033 error should be diagnosed.
7035 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7036 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7037 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7038 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7039 appeared instead of "NULL".
7041 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7042 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7043 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7044 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7045 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7046 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7049 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7050 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7051 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7057 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7058 or receiver verification errors.
7060 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7063 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7064 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7065 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7066 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7068 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7069 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7070 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7071 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7072 shouldn't happen again.
7074 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7075 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7076 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7078 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7079 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7081 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7083 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7084 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7086 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7087 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7090 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7091 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7092 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7094 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7095 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7096 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7097 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7099 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7100 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7101 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7102 to define what should happen).
7104 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7105 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7106 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7108 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7110 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7112 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7113 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7115 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7116 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7117 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7118 structure in all cases.
7120 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7121 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7122 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7123 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7125 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7126 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7129 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7130 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7132 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7133 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7135 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7136 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7137 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7139 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7140 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7141 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7143 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7144 the book and for uniformity.
7146 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7148 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7149 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7150 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7151 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7152 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7153 non-existent command as the problem.
7155 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7156 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7157 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7159 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7161 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7162 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7163 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7165 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7166 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7167 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7168 timestamps using strftime().
7170 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7171 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7173 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7174 transport-time rewrites.
7176 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7177 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7178 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7179 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7181 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7182 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7184 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7185 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7186 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7187 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7190 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7191 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7192 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7193 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7194 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7195 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7196 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7198 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7199 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7200 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7201 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7202 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7204 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7205 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7206 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7207 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7208 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7209 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7210 remaining text gets split now.
7212 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7213 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7214 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7215 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7217 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7218 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7219 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7220 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7223 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7224 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7225 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7226 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7227 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7228 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7229 passed through if needed.
7231 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7232 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7233 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7234 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7235 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7236 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7238 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7239 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7240 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7241 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7242 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7244 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7245 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7246 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7247 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7248 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7250 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7251 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7254 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7255 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7256 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7257 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7258 mayhem of various kinds.
7260 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7261 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7262 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7263 the right test for positive values.
7265 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7266 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7267 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7268 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7269 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7270 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7271 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7272 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7273 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7274 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7277 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7280 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7281 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7284 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7285 the existing equality matching.
7287 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7288 dealing with inode numbers.
7290 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7291 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7292 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7294 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7295 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7296 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7297 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7300 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7301 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7302 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7303 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7304 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7305 relay addresses has also been removed.
7307 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7309 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7310 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7311 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7313 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7314 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7315 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7316 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7317 processing applies to CR:
7319 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7320 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7322 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7323 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7324 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7325 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7327 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7328 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7329 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7331 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7332 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7333 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7334 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7335 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7336 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7339 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7342 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7343 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7344 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7345 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7348 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7350 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7352 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7354 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7355 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7356 not considered personal.
7358 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7360 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7362 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7364 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7365 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7366 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7367 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7368 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7369 header lines, and spool format errors.
7371 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7372 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7373 for more flexibility.
7375 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7376 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7377 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7379 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7382 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7383 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7384 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7385 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7386 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7387 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7388 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7389 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7390 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7392 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7393 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7394 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7395 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7396 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7397 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7398 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7400 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7401 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7402 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7404 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7405 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7406 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7407 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7408 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7409 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7410 instead of killing the process with assert().
7412 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7413 than Unicode encoding.
7415 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7416 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7417 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7418 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7420 77. Added process_log_path.
7422 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7423 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7425 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7426 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7428 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7429 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7430 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7432 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7433 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7434 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7435 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7436 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7439 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7440 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7443 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7444 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7445 they will be used during message reception.
7451 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.