1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
17 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
18 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
19 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
21 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
23 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
24 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
27 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
28 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
29 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
31 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
33 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
35 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
36 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
37 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
39 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
40 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
41 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
43 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
44 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
46 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
47 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
50 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
51 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
52 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
53 should both provide the file and set the option.
54 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
56 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
57 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
59 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
60 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
61 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
62 Authentication-Results: header.
64 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
65 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
66 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
67 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
69 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
70 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
71 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
72 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
73 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
74 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
75 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
77 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
78 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
79 copies while it is still usable.
81 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
82 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
83 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
85 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
86 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
88 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
89 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
90 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
91 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
93 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
94 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
95 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
98 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
99 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
100 - the pipe transport command
101 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
102 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
104 - paths used by single-key lookups
105 Previously this was permitted.
107 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
108 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
109 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
110 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
112 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
113 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
114 support larger malloc requests.
116 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
117 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
118 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
119 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
121 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
122 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
123 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
124 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
127 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
128 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
129 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
130 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
131 data being length-specified.
133 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
134 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
135 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
136 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
138 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
139 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
140 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
141 not being properly tracked.
143 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
144 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
145 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
146 minute could be seen.
148 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
149 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
150 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
152 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
153 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
155 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
156 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
159 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
161 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
162 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
164 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
165 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
166 filesystem as sufficient validation.
168 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
169 argument is supplied.
171 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
172 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
173 access under Exim's current working directory.
175 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
176 Previously no event was raised.
178 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
179 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
180 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
183 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
184 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
185 the size of the signature hash.
187 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
188 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
190 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
191 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
192 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
193 dropped between messages.
195 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
196 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
197 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
198 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
200 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
201 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
202 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
203 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
204 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
205 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
206 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
207 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
208 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
210 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
211 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
212 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
214 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
215 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
222 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
223 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
225 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
226 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
229 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
232 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
234 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
236 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
237 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
239 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
240 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
241 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
242 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
243 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
244 suitably configured).
246 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
247 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
249 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
250 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
253 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
254 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
256 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
257 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
258 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
259 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
262 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
263 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
264 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
266 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
269 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
270 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
272 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
273 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
274 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
275 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
278 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
279 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
280 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
281 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
284 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
285 shared (NFS) environment.
287 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
288 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
291 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
292 on some platforms for bit 31.
294 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
295 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
296 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
297 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
298 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
299 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
300 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
301 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
303 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
305 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
306 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
308 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
309 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
312 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
313 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
316 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
317 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
318 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
321 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
322 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
323 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
325 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
326 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
327 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
328 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
329 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
331 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
334 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
335 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
336 be requested on all coneections.
338 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
339 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
341 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
343 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
344 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
345 one for these; the option was ignored.
347 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
348 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
349 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
350 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
352 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
353 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
354 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
357 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
358 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
359 error ignored was made.
361 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
363 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
364 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
365 values, to catch one form of exploit.
367 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
368 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
369 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
371 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
372 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
375 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
376 them in our smtp response.
378 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
379 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
380 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
381 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
382 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
384 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
385 link count into consideration.
387 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
388 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
390 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
391 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
392 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
395 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
397 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
399 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
401 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
402 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
403 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
404 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
406 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
408 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
409 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
412 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
413 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
414 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
416 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
417 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
418 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
420 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
421 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
422 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
423 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
424 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
425 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
426 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
427 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
429 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
430 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
431 resulted in an indefinite loop.
433 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
434 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
435 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
441 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
442 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
444 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
445 non-signal-safe functions being used.
447 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
448 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
449 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
451 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
452 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
453 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
455 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
456 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
457 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
458 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
459 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
462 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
463 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
465 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
466 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
467 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
468 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
469 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
470 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
471 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
473 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
474 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
476 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
479 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
480 Previously this would segfault.
482 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
485 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
486 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
487 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
488 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
489 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
490 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
492 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
494 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
495 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
496 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
497 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
499 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
501 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
502 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
503 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
504 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
506 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
508 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
510 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
511 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
512 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
514 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
515 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
516 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
518 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
520 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
521 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
522 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
523 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
525 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
526 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
527 promised '?' replacement.
529 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
531 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
532 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
533 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
534 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
535 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
537 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
538 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
539 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
541 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
542 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
543 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
545 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
546 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
547 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
549 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
550 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
551 hope that is portable enough.
553 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
554 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
555 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
556 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
558 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
559 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
560 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
562 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
563 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
564 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
565 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
567 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
568 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
570 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
571 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
572 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
573 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
575 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
576 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
577 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
579 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
580 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
581 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
582 the previous G, M, k.
584 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
585 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
588 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
589 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
590 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
591 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
593 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
594 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
596 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
597 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
598 off past the nul-terimation.
600 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
601 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
602 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
603 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
604 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
606 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
608 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
609 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
610 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
613 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
614 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
616 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
617 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
618 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
620 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
621 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
622 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
624 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
625 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
631 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
632 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
633 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
634 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
635 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
636 be defined in redis_servers.
638 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
639 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
641 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
642 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
643 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
644 extant use locations.
646 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
647 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
649 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
650 Previously only the last row was returned.
652 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
653 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
654 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
655 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
658 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
659 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
660 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
661 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
662 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
663 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
664 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
665 Main pool for expansions.
666 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
667 active in the testsuite.
668 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
670 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
671 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
672 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
673 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
676 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
677 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
680 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
681 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
682 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
684 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
685 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
686 ClamAV interface method is removed.
688 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
689 rows affected is given instead).
691 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
692 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
694 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
695 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
696 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
697 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
698 for all multi-message initiating connections.
700 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
701 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
702 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
704 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
705 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
706 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
707 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
710 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
711 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
712 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
715 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
717 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
718 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
720 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
721 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
722 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
724 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
725 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
726 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
729 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
730 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
732 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
733 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
734 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
736 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
737 for the build is renamed.
739 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
740 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
741 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
743 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
744 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
745 result replacing the original.
747 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
748 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
749 and the resources needed to be freed.
751 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
753 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
756 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
757 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
758 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
759 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
761 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
762 length value. Previously this would segfault.
764 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
765 newer versions of the scanner.
767 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
768 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
769 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
770 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
771 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
772 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
773 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
775 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
776 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
777 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
778 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
779 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
780 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
781 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
782 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
783 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
784 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
786 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
787 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
789 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
791 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
792 allows proper process termination in container environments.
794 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
795 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
797 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
798 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
799 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
801 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
802 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
803 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
804 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
806 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
807 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
810 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
811 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
813 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
814 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
815 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
816 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
817 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
819 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
820 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
823 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
824 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
826 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
829 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
830 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
831 "bare" representation.
833 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
834 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
835 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
836 corrupted the output.
842 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
843 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
844 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
845 pairs of long lines into single ones.
847 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
848 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
850 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
851 This permits better logging.
853 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
854 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
855 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
856 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
857 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
858 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
860 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
861 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
864 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
865 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
866 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
868 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
869 than 255 are no longer allowed.
871 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
872 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
873 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
874 client, there is no benefit for these.
875 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
876 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
877 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
880 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
881 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
883 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
884 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
885 erroneously found still-pending ones.
887 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
888 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
890 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
891 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
892 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
893 signature and again for transmission.
895 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
896 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
897 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
899 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
900 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
901 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
902 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
903 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
904 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
905 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
907 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
908 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
909 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
910 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
912 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
913 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
914 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
915 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
916 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
917 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
920 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
921 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
922 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
923 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
926 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
927 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
928 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
929 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
932 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
933 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
936 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
937 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
938 banner-time rejection.
940 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
943 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
944 is the name of a transport.
947 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
949 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
950 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
952 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
953 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
954 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
957 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
958 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
959 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
960 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
962 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
963 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
964 initial verify call returned a defer.
966 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
967 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
969 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
970 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
972 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
973 if present. Previously it was ignored.
975 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
976 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
978 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
979 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
982 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
983 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
985 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
986 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
987 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
989 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
990 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
991 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
992 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
994 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
995 and confused the parent.
997 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
998 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1000 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1003 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1004 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1005 out-of-order delivery.
1007 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1008 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1009 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1012 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1013 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1016 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1017 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1018 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1020 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1021 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1022 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1023 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1024 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1025 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1027 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1028 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1029 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1031 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1032 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1033 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1035 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1036 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1037 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1038 though a different problem.
1044 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1045 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1047 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1049 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1050 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1052 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1053 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1055 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1056 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1057 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1058 before acknowledging the chunk.
1060 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1061 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1062 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1064 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1065 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1066 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1069 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1070 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1071 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1073 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1074 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1076 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1077 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1078 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1079 body hash calculated value.
1081 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1082 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1083 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1085 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1087 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1088 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1090 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1091 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1092 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1094 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1095 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1096 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1097 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1098 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1099 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1101 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1102 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1103 past that check, despite the cost.
1105 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1106 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1107 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1109 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1110 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1111 TLS library to consume.
1113 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1115 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1117 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1118 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1119 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1120 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1121 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1122 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1123 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1125 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1127 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1129 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1130 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1131 should be warning-free.
1133 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1135 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1136 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1138 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1139 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1140 general solution here.
1142 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1143 already-broken messages in the queue.
1145 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1147 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1153 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1154 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1156 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1157 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1158 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1160 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1161 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1162 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1163 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1164 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1165 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1166 if one fails this test.
1167 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1168 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1170 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1171 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1173 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1174 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1176 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1177 in rewrites and routers.
1179 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1180 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1182 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1183 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1185 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1187 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1190 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1191 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1192 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1193 connection after a verify cache hit.
1194 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1196 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1197 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1199 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1200 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1201 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1202 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1203 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1205 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1206 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1208 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1209 Previously they were not counted.
1211 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1212 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1213 that needed the lookup.
1215 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1216 distinguished as "(=".
1218 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1219 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1221 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1223 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1224 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1226 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1227 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1229 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1230 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1233 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1234 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1235 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1236 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1238 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1240 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1241 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1242 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1244 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1245 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1246 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1249 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1250 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1251 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1254 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1255 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1256 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1258 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1259 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1262 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1264 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1265 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1267 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1268 are not in the system include path.
1270 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1271 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1272 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1273 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1275 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1276 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1277 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1279 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1281 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1282 an incoming connection.
1284 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1287 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1288 fallback to "prime256v1".
1290 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1291 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1297 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1298 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1299 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1300 client dropping the TLS connection.
1302 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1303 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1305 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1306 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1307 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1308 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1311 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1312 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1313 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1314 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1315 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1316 check on the next write.
1318 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1319 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1320 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1321 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1322 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1324 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1325 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1327 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1328 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1329 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1331 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1332 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1333 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1334 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1336 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1337 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1339 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1340 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1342 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1343 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1344 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1347 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1349 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1351 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1353 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1354 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1356 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1357 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1359 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1361 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1362 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1364 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1366 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1367 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1369 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1371 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1372 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1373 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1374 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1375 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1376 they will retry in-clear.
1377 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1378 at installation time.
1380 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1381 with the $config_file variable.
1383 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1384 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1385 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1386 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1387 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1389 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1390 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1391 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1392 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1393 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1395 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1397 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1398 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1399 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1400 list order is no longer honoured.
1402 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1403 for DKIM processing.
1405 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1406 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1408 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1409 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1410 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1411 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1413 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1414 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1416 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1417 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1419 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1420 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1422 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1424 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1425 cached by the daemon.
1427 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1428 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1430 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1431 keys are given for lookup.
1433 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1434 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1435 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1436 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1438 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1439 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1440 server-side so match that on older versions.
1442 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1443 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1444 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1446 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1447 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1449 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1450 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1451 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1452 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1453 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1454 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1455 initial truncated version.
1457 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1459 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1461 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1462 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1464 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1466 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1468 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1469 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1472 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1473 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1476 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1477 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1479 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1480 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1483 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1484 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1485 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1487 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1488 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1489 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1490 extraction. Accept either.
1496 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1499 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1501 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1504 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1505 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1506 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1507 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1509 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1510 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1511 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1513 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1514 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1515 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1518 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1521 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1522 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1523 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1524 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1525 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1527 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1528 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1529 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1531 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1533 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1534 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1536 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1537 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1539 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1542 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1543 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1545 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1546 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1547 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1549 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1550 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1551 specify a port-range.
1553 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1554 timeout value per server.
1556 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1557 now have the list separator specified.
1559 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1562 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1565 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1567 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1568 rather than the verbs used.
1570 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1571 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1573 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1575 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1576 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1578 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1579 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1581 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1582 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1584 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1586 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1588 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1589 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1590 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1591 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1593 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1595 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1596 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1598 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1599 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1601 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1603 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1605 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1607 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1608 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1610 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1611 added for tls authenticator.
1613 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1619 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1620 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1621 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1622 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1623 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1624 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1625 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1627 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1628 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1629 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1630 function when detected.
1632 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1633 cause callback expansion.
1635 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1636 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1637 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1638 instead of bool when processing it.
1640 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1641 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1643 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1645 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1647 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1649 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1650 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1652 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1653 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1654 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1655 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1656 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1657 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1659 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1660 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1663 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1664 version 3.3.6 or later.
1666 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1667 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1668 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1669 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1670 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1671 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1674 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1675 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1677 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1678 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1679 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1682 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1683 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1684 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1686 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1687 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1689 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1690 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1693 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1695 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1696 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1698 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1699 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1702 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1704 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1707 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1708 output list separator was used.
1713 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1714 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1717 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1718 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1720 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1722 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1723 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1729 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1731 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1732 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1733 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1734 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1735 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1736 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1738 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1739 utilities have not been installed.
1741 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1742 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1744 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1745 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1747 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1748 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1749 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1750 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1752 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1754 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1755 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1757 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1760 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1762 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1763 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1764 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1766 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1767 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1768 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1769 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1770 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1771 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1773 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1775 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1776 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1778 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1781 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1783 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1785 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1786 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1788 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1789 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1791 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1793 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1795 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1796 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1798 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1799 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1800 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1802 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1803 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1804 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1807 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1809 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1810 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1813 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1814 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1817 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1818 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1820 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1821 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1823 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1825 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1826 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1827 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1829 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1830 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1832 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1833 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1836 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1837 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1838 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1840 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1842 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1843 Christian Aistleitner.
1845 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1847 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1848 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1850 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1851 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1853 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1854 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1856 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1857 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1859 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1860 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1862 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1863 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1864 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1866 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1868 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1869 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1872 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1874 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1875 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1882 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1884 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1885 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1887 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1890 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1891 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1894 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1896 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1897 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1898 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1899 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1900 using channel bindings instead).
1902 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1903 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1904 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1905 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1906 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1909 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1911 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1913 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1914 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1916 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1917 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1918 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1920 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1922 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1924 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1925 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1927 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1929 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1931 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1933 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1934 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1936 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1938 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1939 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1942 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1943 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1945 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1946 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1949 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1951 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1953 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1954 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1956 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1959 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1960 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1962 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1963 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1965 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1967 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1969 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1972 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1975 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1977 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1978 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1979 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1980 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1982 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1984 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1985 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1986 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1987 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1990 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1991 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1992 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1994 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1995 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1996 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1997 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1999 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2000 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2001 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2002 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2003 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2004 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2005 delivery, as in LMTP.
2007 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2008 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2010 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2012 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2016 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2017 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2018 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2019 username as equal to the username.
2021 This change corrects that bug.
2023 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2024 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2025 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2027 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2029 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2030 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2031 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2032 NULL dereference and crash.
2034 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2036 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2037 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2038 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2040 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2042 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2043 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2044 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2045 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2046 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2047 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2048 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2049 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2050 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2051 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2052 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2054 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2055 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2057 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2058 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2061 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2062 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2063 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2064 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2065 an empty string is now equivalent.
2067 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2068 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2069 not performing validation itself.
2071 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2072 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2074 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2077 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2079 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2080 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2081 other false fix of the same issue.
2082 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2085 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2086 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2088 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2089 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2090 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2092 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2093 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2094 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2096 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2098 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2100 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2101 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2103 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2106 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2107 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2108 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2109 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2110 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2112 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2113 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2115 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2116 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2119 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2120 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2121 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2122 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2124 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2126 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2127 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2128 from multiple comments on this bug.
2130 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2132 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2133 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2136 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2137 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2139 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2140 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2146 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2148 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2154 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2155 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2156 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2158 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2160 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2163 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2165 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2167 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2169 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2170 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2172 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2173 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2175 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2176 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2178 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2179 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2180 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2182 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2184 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2185 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2187 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2189 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2191 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2192 non-compliant senders.
2193 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2195 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2196 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2197 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2199 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2200 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2201 in spool file corruption.
2203 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2204 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2205 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2208 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2209 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2210 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2212 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2213 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2215 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2217 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2219 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2221 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2222 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2223 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2225 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2226 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2227 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2228 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2230 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2231 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2233 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2234 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2235 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2236 resolver implementation change.
2238 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2239 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2241 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2243 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2245 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2246 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2248 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2249 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2251 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2252 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2254 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2255 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2256 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2257 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2258 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2260 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2262 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2263 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2264 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2266 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2268 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2269 read-only, out of scope).
2270 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2272 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2273 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2274 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2275 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2277 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2279 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2280 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2281 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2282 real issues in debug logging.
2284 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2285 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2287 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2288 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2289 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2291 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2292 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2293 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2296 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2297 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2299 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2300 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2301 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2302 needs to override this, it can.
2304 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2305 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2306 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2308 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2309 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2310 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2311 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2313 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2319 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2320 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2322 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2324 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2327 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2328 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2330 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2331 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2332 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2334 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2335 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2336 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2337 not safe for signals.
2339 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2340 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2341 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2342 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2345 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2347 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2348 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2349 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2350 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2351 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2353 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2354 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2355 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2356 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2357 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2358 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2360 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2361 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2362 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2363 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2365 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2366 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2367 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2368 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2370 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2371 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2372 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2373 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2374 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2375 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2376 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2377 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2378 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2380 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2381 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2382 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2383 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2385 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2386 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2387 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2388 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2389 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2390 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2391 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2392 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2393 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2394 details in the main documentation.
2396 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2398 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2400 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2401 repository when doing development or release builds.
2403 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2404 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2406 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2407 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2410 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2412 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2413 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2415 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2416 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2418 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2419 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2421 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2422 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2424 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2425 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2427 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2429 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2432 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2433 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2434 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2436 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2438 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2440 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2441 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2447 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2449 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2450 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2452 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2454 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2456 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2459 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2460 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2462 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2463 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2465 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2466 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2468 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2471 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2472 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2474 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2475 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2476 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2477 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2479 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2480 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2486 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2489 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2490 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2491 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2493 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2494 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2496 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2497 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2498 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2500 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2501 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2503 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2504 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2506 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2507 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2509 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2510 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2512 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2513 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2515 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2518 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2519 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2521 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2522 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2524 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2525 SQL string expansion failure details.
2526 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2528 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2529 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2531 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2532 extern declarations in function scope.
2533 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2535 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2536 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2537 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2540 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2541 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2543 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2544 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2546 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2547 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2549 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2550 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2552 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2553 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2556 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2558 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2560 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2561 Patch by Simon Arlott
2563 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2564 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2570 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2571 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2573 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2574 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2576 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2578 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2579 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2580 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2582 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2583 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2584 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2586 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2587 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2588 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2589 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2591 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2592 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2593 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2594 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2596 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2597 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2598 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2601 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2604 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2605 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2606 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2607 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2608 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2614 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2615 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2616 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2618 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2619 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2621 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2623 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2625 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2627 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2629 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2631 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2632 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2633 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2634 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2636 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2637 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2638 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2639 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2640 more caution in buffer sizes.
2642 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2644 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2646 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2648 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2650 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2652 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2654 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2656 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2657 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2658 ignore trailing whitespace.
2660 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2662 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2665 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2666 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2668 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2669 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2670 Notification from John Horne.
2672 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2675 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2676 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2679 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2682 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2683 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2684 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2686 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2687 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2688 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2691 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2692 option (effectively making it always true).
2694 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2695 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2697 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2698 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2700 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2701 run-time user, instead of root.
2703 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2704 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2706 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2707 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2710 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2711 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2712 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2714 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2716 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2722 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2723 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2726 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2727 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2730 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2731 Patch from Alain Williams
2733 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2735 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2736 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2738 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2739 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2741 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2743 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2745 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2746 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2748 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2750 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2752 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2753 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2754 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2756 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2757 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2759 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2760 Patch by Simon Arlott
2762 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2763 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2769 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2771 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2773 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2775 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2777 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2783 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2784 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2786 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2787 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2790 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2791 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2792 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2794 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2795 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2797 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2798 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2799 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2800 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2802 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2803 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2804 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2806 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2808 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2810 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2811 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2813 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2815 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2816 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2817 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2818 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2820 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2821 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2823 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2825 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2827 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2828 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2830 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2831 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2833 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2834 that they are available at delivery time.
2836 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2838 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2839 incoming_port log selectors.
2841 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2842 setting expands to an empty string.
2844 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2845 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2847 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2848 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2850 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2851 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2853 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2854 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2856 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2857 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2859 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2860 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2862 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2864 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2865 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2867 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2868 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2870 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2872 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2873 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2875 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2877 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2879 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2882 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2883 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2885 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2886 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2888 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2889 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2891 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2892 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2894 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2895 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2897 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2898 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2900 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2901 plus update to original patch.
2903 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2905 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2906 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2908 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2910 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2912 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2914 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2916 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2917 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2919 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2920 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2922 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2923 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2925 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2926 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2928 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2930 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2932 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2934 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2940 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2941 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2942 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2944 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2945 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2946 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2947 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2948 build errors in sieve.c.
2950 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2951 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2952 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2954 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2956 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2958 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2960 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2966 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2968 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2969 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2970 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2971 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2972 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2973 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2974 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2975 for iplsearch lookups.
2977 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2978 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2979 previously such lookups could never work.
2981 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2982 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2983 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2985 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2988 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2989 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2990 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2991 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2992 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2993 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2995 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2996 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2998 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2999 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3000 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3001 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3002 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3003 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3005 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3008 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3010 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3011 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3014 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3015 by clients under certain conditions.
3017 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3018 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3020 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3022 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3023 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3025 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3027 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3029 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3031 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3032 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3034 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3036 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3037 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3039 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3041 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3043 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3044 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3045 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3046 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3048 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3049 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3050 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3052 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3053 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3055 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3057 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3059 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3061 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3062 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3063 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3069 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3070 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3073 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3074 issue a MAIL command.
3076 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3078 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3080 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3081 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3082 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3083 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3084 item. This has been fixed.
3086 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3087 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3089 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3090 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3092 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3093 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3094 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3096 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3098 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3099 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3100 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3101 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3102 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3104 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3105 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3106 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3108 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3109 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3110 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3111 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3113 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3115 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3117 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3118 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3119 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3120 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3121 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3123 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3125 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3126 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3127 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3130 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3132 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3134 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3136 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3138 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3140 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3141 no_callout_flush is set.
3143 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3144 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3145 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3148 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3150 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3151 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3152 other ACL rejections are.
3154 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3155 with slight modification.
3157 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3158 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3160 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3161 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3164 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3165 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3167 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3169 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3170 expansion side effects.
3172 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3173 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3174 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3177 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3178 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3179 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3181 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3182 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3183 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3184 were accidentally chopped off.
3186 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3187 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3188 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3189 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3190 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3191 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3192 pipelining has not been advertised.
3194 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3196 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3197 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3198 This has been fixed.
3200 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3201 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3202 reported on Solaris.
3204 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3205 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3206 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3207 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3208 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3209 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3210 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3212 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3215 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3217 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3219 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3220 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3221 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3222 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3223 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3224 criteria to be more general.
3226 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3227 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3228 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3229 host_all_ignored option.
3231 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3232 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3233 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3234 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3235 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3236 is what is supposed to happen).
3238 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3239 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3240 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3241 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3242 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3245 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3246 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3247 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3248 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3249 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3250 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3253 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3255 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3256 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3258 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3259 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3261 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3263 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3265 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3266 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3267 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3268 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3269 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3270 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3271 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3272 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3273 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3274 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3275 least in a lot of common cases.
3277 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3278 advertised in response to EHLO.
3284 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3285 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3287 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3288 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3290 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3291 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3292 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3294 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3295 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3296 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3297 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3298 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3304 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3305 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3308 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3309 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3310 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3312 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3313 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3314 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3315 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3316 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3317 rather than extend the field.
3323 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3324 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3325 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3326 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3329 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3330 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3331 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3333 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3334 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3335 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3337 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3338 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3339 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3342 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3343 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3344 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3345 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3346 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3347 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3348 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3349 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3350 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3351 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3352 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3354 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3357 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3358 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3359 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3360 ignores EPIPE as well.
3362 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3363 (quoted-printable decoding).
3365 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3366 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3368 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3370 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3372 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3374 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3375 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3377 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3380 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3381 miscellaneous code fixes
3383 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3386 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3387 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3388 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3389 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3390 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3391 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3392 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3393 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3395 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3396 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3397 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3398 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3400 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3401 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3402 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3403 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3404 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3405 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3406 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3407 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3408 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3410 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3413 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3414 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3415 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3416 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3417 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3418 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3419 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3420 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3422 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3423 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3426 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3427 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3428 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3429 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3430 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3431 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3432 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3433 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3434 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3435 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3436 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3437 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3438 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3440 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3441 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3442 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3443 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3444 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3445 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3446 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3448 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3449 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3450 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3451 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3452 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3453 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3454 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3455 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3456 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3457 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3459 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3460 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3461 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3462 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3463 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3465 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3466 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3467 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3468 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3469 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3470 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3471 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3473 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3474 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3475 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3476 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3477 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3478 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3481 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3482 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3483 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3486 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3487 if any retry times were supplied.
3489 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3490 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3491 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3493 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3495 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3497 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3498 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3499 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3500 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3501 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3502 before) are ignored.
3504 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3505 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3507 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3508 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3509 committing the later change.]
3511 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3512 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3513 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3514 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3515 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3516 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3517 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3518 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3519 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3521 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3522 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3523 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3524 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3525 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3526 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3527 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3528 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3529 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3531 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3532 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3533 hammering the server.
3535 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3536 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3538 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3540 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3541 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3542 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3544 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3545 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3546 one case where this was not true.
3548 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3549 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3550 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3551 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3554 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3555 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3556 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3557 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3558 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3559 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3560 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3561 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3562 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3565 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3566 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3567 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3568 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3570 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3571 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3573 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3574 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3575 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3577 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3579 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3581 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3583 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3584 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3585 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3586 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3588 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3589 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3591 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3592 be meaningful with "accept".
3594 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3595 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3597 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3598 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3599 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3601 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3602 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3603 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3604 there is data to show.
3605 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3607 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3608 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3609 as well as the number of messages.
3611 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3612 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3613 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3615 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3616 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3617 have a flag are now skipped.
3619 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3620 Added the -emptyok flag.
3622 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3623 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3625 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3626 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3627 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3629 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3632 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3633 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3635 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3637 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3638 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3640 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3642 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3643 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3644 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3645 contravention of the specifications.
3647 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3648 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3649 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3651 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3652 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3653 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3655 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3657 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3658 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3659 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3660 some point in the past.
3662 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3663 transport during callout processing was broken.
3665 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3666 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3668 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3669 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3671 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3672 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3674 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3680 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3681 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3683 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3684 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3685 there is data to show.
3686 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3688 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3689 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3691 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3692 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3694 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3695 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3697 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3698 submissions from trusted users.
3700 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3701 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3703 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3704 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3705 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3706 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3707 there is now a framework to start from.
3709 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3710 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3711 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3713 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3715 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3717 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3719 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3720 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3721 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3723 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3726 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3727 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3728 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3730 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3731 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3732 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3735 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3736 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3737 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3738 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3739 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3741 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3742 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3744 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3746 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3747 operations in malware.c.
3749 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3752 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3753 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3754 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3757 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3758 statements to "add_header".
3760 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3761 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3763 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3764 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3767 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3771 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3772 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3773 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3776 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3777 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3779 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3780 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3782 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3783 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3784 any possible encoding problems.
3786 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3787 but not after initializing Perl.
3789 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3790 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3791 apparently, which is not desirable.
3793 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3796 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3799 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3801 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3802 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3803 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3804 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3806 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3807 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3808 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3810 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3811 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3812 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3815 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3816 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3817 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3818 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3819 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3825 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3826 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3828 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3831 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3832 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3833 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3834 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3835 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3836 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3837 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3838 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3841 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3843 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3844 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3845 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3847 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3848 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3849 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3852 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3853 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3855 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3856 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3857 option (which defaults to 0600).
3859 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3861 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3862 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3863 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3864 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3865 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3866 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3867 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3869 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3875 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3876 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3877 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3878 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3879 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3880 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3883 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3884 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3886 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3888 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3889 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3890 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3891 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3892 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3895 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3896 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3898 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3899 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3900 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3901 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3902 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3904 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3905 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3906 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3907 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3909 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3910 be the same on different OS.
3912 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3915 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3916 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3918 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3921 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3922 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3923 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3924 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3925 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3926 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3929 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3930 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3931 when Exim was called.
3933 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3934 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3936 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3937 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3938 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3939 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3941 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3942 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3943 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3944 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3947 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3948 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3949 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3951 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3952 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3953 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3955 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3958 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3959 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3960 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3961 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3962 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3963 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3964 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3965 values from the SRV records were lost.
3967 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3968 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3969 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3971 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3972 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3973 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3975 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3976 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3977 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3978 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3979 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3980 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3981 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3982 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3983 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3984 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3986 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3987 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3988 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3990 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3991 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3993 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3994 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3995 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3996 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3999 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4000 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4001 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4003 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4004 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4005 PH/23 above applies.
4007 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4008 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4009 (for which there is an explicit test).
4011 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4013 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4014 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4015 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4016 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4017 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4019 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4020 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4021 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4022 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4024 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4025 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4026 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4028 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4030 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4032 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4033 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4034 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4036 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4037 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4038 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4039 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4040 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4042 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4043 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4044 the message gets confusing).
4046 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4047 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4048 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4049 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4051 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4052 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4053 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4054 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4057 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4058 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4059 the different processes.
4061 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4063 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4065 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4066 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4068 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4069 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4071 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4072 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4073 messages matching specified criteria.
4075 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4077 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4078 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4080 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4081 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4082 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4083 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4084 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4085 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4086 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4087 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4088 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4089 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4091 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4092 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4093 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4095 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4097 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4098 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4099 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4100 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4101 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4102 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4103 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4106 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4107 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4109 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4111 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4113 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4115 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4116 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4117 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4118 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4119 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4120 size of the count of files.
4122 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4124 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4127 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4128 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4129 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4130 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4132 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4133 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4134 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4136 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4137 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4138 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4139 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4140 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4142 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4143 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4145 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4146 will now be deprecated.
4148 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4150 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4151 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4152 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4154 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4155 with very large, slow to parse queues
4157 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4159 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4161 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4162 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4163 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4166 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4167 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4168 Sieve code now uses this.
4170 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4171 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4173 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4174 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4176 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4178 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4179 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4180 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4181 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4182 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4184 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4185 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4186 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4187 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4189 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4191 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4193 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4194 is preferred over IPv4.
4196 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4197 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4198 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4199 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4200 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4201 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4202 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4204 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4205 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4206 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4208 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4210 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4211 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4212 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4213 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4214 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4215 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4216 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4217 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4218 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4219 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4220 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4222 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4223 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4224 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4230 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4232 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4233 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4235 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4236 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4237 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4239 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4241 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4244 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4247 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4248 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4249 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4252 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4253 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4255 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4256 inside the third argument.
4258 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4259 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4262 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4263 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4265 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4266 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4268 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4270 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4271 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4274 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4276 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4277 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4278 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4279 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4280 identical. For example:
4282 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4284 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4285 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4286 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4288 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4289 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4290 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4291 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4293 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4294 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4295 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4298 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4300 o fixes some comments
4301 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4302 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4303 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4304 and documents the missing references header update
4308 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4309 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4312 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4313 Electronic Mail") by including:
4315 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4317 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4318 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4319 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4320 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4321 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4323 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4325 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4327 The auto-replied keyword:
4329 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4330 message by an automatic process,
4332 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4334 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4335 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4337 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4338 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4341 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4342 to the default Received: header definition.
4344 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4346 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4347 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4348 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4350 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4351 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4352 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4354 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4355 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4356 and treats the condition as false.
4358 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4360 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4361 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4362 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4363 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4364 not changing the active code.
4366 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4367 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4369 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4370 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4372 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4375 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4376 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4377 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4378 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4379 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4380 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4381 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4382 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4383 the text comparison.
4385 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4386 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4387 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4388 The same fix has been applied.
4394 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4395 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4398 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4399 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4401 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4403 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4404 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4405 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4406 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4407 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4409 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4410 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4411 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4412 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4415 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4423 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4424 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4426 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4428 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4430 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4431 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4432 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4434 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4435 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4436 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4438 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4439 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4442 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4443 ${stat: expansion item.
4445 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4446 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4448 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4449 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4452 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4454 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4457 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4458 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4460 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4462 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4463 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4464 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4465 the end of the subprocess.
4467 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4468 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4469 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4470 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4471 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4473 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4475 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4477 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4478 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4480 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4482 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4484 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4485 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4488 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4490 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4491 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4492 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4494 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4495 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4497 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4498 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4500 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4501 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4503 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4504 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4506 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4507 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4508 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4509 contributed by a Radius user.
4511 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4512 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4514 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4515 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4517 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4520 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4521 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4524 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4525 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4526 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4527 header lines when this was not necessary.
4529 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4531 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4532 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4533 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4536 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4539 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4540 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4541 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4542 return code was incorrect.
4544 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4546 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4548 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4550 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4552 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4553 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4554 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4555 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4556 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4559 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4561 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4562 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4563 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4564 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4565 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4566 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4567 which is clearly wrong.
4569 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4571 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4572 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4573 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4576 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4577 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4579 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4581 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4582 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4584 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4585 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4587 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4588 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4590 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4591 recipients, not senders.
4593 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4594 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4596 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4598 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4600 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4601 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4602 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4603 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4605 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4607 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4608 clock is set back in time.
4610 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4611 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4613 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4614 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4616 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4617 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4620 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4621 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4624 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4627 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4629 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4630 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4631 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4633 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4634 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4635 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4636 helo verification defer as a failure.
4638 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4639 actual error message.
4645 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4647 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4648 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4649 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4650 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4652 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4654 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4655 can still be requested.
4657 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4658 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4659 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4660 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4662 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4663 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4664 circumstances, but probably never did.
4666 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4667 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4668 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4671 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4673 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4674 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4676 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4678 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4680 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4681 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4682 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4683 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4684 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4685 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4687 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4688 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4689 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4690 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4691 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4692 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4694 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4695 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4697 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4698 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4700 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4701 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4703 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4705 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4707 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4709 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4711 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4713 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4715 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4717 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4718 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4719 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4721 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4722 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4723 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4724 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4726 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4727 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4728 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4730 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4731 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4732 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4733 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4735 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4736 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4739 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4740 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4741 should work with maildirs and everything.
4743 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4744 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4746 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4749 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4750 function for BDB 4.3.
4752 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4754 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4755 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4758 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4759 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4760 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4761 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4762 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4763 formatting function string_vformat().
4765 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4766 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4767 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4768 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4769 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4770 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4771 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4772 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4774 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4775 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4778 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4779 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4781 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4782 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4783 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4784 test. It is now used for both.
4786 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4787 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4788 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4789 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4790 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4791 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4793 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4794 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4795 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4798 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4799 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4800 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4802 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4803 experimental DomainKeys support:
4805 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4806 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4807 the control was given.
4809 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4811 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4813 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4815 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4816 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4817 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4820 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4821 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4822 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4823 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4824 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4825 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4828 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4829 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4830 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4831 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4832 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4833 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4835 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4836 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4837 do -d+all out of habit.
4839 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4840 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4843 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4844 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4845 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4846 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4847 record types that Exim uses.
4849 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4850 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4851 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4852 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4853 non-existent file that was broken.
4855 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4856 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4858 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4859 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4860 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4862 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4864 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4865 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4866 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4867 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4868 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4871 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4872 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4873 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4874 at a slight CPU cost.
4876 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4877 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4879 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4882 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4884 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4885 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4891 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4892 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4894 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4896 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4898 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4899 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4901 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4902 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4903 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4904 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4905 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4906 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4909 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4910 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4911 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4912 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4915 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4916 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4917 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4918 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4919 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4920 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4921 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4924 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4925 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4927 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4928 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4929 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4930 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4931 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4932 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4934 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4935 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4936 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4937 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4939 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4942 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4943 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4945 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4946 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4947 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4948 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4951 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4953 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4954 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4956 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4957 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4958 to what was transported.)
4960 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4962 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4963 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4964 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4965 spamd_address settings.
4967 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4968 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4969 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4970 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4971 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4973 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4975 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4976 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4977 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4978 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4979 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4981 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4982 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4984 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4985 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4986 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4987 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4988 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4989 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4990 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4993 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4994 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4995 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4996 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4997 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4998 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4999 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5002 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5004 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5005 driver and ACL definitions.
5007 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5008 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5010 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5011 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5012 understands it better than I do:
5014 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5015 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5017 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5018 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5019 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5020 => three warnings about OTP not working
5021 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5023 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5024 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5025 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5026 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5028 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5029 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5031 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5032 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5033 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5035 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5036 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5039 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5040 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5043 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5044 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5045 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5047 warn !verify = sender
5048 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5050 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5051 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5053 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5055 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5056 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5058 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5059 nomenclature these days.)
5061 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5062 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5064 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5065 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5066 . First host does not offer TLS;
5067 . First host accepts first address;
5068 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5069 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5070 . Second host accepts second address.
5071 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5072 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5075 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5076 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5077 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5078 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5079 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5081 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5082 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5084 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5085 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5087 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5088 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5089 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5091 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5092 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5095 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5097 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5098 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5099 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5100 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5101 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5102 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5103 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5105 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5106 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5107 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5108 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5109 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5111 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5112 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5115 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5116 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5117 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5118 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5119 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5120 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5122 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5124 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5125 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5126 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5127 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5128 printable escape sequences.
5130 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5131 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5134 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5135 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5138 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5139 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5140 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5141 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5142 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5144 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5145 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5146 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5148 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5150 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5151 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5154 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5155 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5156 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5157 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5158 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5159 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5160 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5161 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5162 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5165 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5166 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5167 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5168 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5172 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5173 ----------------------------------------
5175 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5176 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5177 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5178 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5179 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5180 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5183 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5184 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5185 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5186 historical information.
5192 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5194 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5195 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5197 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5198 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5201 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5202 filter fails to execute.
5204 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5205 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5206 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5207 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5208 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5210 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5212 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5213 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5214 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5215 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5217 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5218 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5219 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5220 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5221 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5223 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5225 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5227 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5228 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5229 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5230 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5232 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5233 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5234 sender verification.
5236 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5237 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5239 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5241 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5244 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5245 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5247 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5248 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5250 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5251 information about exactly what failed.
5253 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5255 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5256 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5257 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5259 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5260 It is now set to "smtps".
5262 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5263 ignore_target_hosts.
5265 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5266 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5267 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5268 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5271 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5272 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5273 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5275 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5276 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5277 wake it up if nothing else does.
5279 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5280 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5281 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5284 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5285 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5287 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5289 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5290 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5291 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5292 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5293 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5294 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5295 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5296 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5298 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5299 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5300 than one IP address.
5302 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5303 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5304 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5305 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5307 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5308 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5309 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5310 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5311 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5314 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5315 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5316 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5317 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5319 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5320 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5323 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5324 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5325 $sender_host_address.
5327 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5328 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5329 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5330 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5331 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5334 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5336 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5337 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5339 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5340 just the host names, not the priorities.
5342 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5343 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5344 controlled by a keyword.
5346 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5347 multiple records are returned.
5349 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5350 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5353 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5355 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5356 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5358 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5359 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5360 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5362 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5364 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5366 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5368 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5369 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5370 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5371 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5372 because the tests only now provoked it.
5374 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5375 (this can affect the format of dates).
5377 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5378 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5379 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5380 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5382 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5384 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5385 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5386 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5387 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5389 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5390 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5391 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5393 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5396 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5397 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5398 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5399 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5400 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5401 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5404 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5405 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5406 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5409 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5410 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5411 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5413 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5414 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5415 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5416 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5417 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5418 so I produce this patch..."
5420 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5421 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5424 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5425 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5426 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5427 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5430 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5432 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5433 long debug lines gets shown.
5435 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5436 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5438 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5440 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5441 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5442 of $primary_hostname.
5444 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5445 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5446 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5447 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5448 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5449 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5450 by change 4.50/55 above.
5452 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5453 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5454 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5455 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5456 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5457 running as the user.
5460 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5461 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5462 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5465 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5466 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5468 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5469 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5470 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5471 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5472 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5474 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5475 This has been fixed.
5477 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5478 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5479 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5480 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5483 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5485 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5486 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5487 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5488 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5490 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5491 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5493 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5494 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5495 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5497 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5498 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5499 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5502 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5503 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5504 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5506 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5507 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5508 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5509 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5511 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5512 during host lookups.
5514 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5515 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5517 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5519 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5520 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5521 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5522 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5523 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5526 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5527 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5529 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5530 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5531 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5533 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5535 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5536 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5537 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5538 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5539 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5540 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5543 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5544 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5545 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5546 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5547 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5549 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5552 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5554 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5555 "vacation" handling.
5557 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5558 OS variants using glibc.
5560 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5563 ----------------------------------------------------
5564 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5565 ----------------------------------------------------
5571 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5572 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5575 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5576 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5579 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5580 filter fails to execute.
5582 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5583 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5584 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5585 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5586 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5588 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5589 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5590 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5591 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5593 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5594 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5595 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5596 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5597 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5599 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5601 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5602 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5603 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5604 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5606 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5607 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5608 sender verification.
5610 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5611 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5613 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5614 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5616 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5617 ignore_target_hosts.
5619 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5620 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5621 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5622 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5625 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5626 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5627 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5629 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5630 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5631 wake it up if nothing else does.
5633 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5634 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5635 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5638 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5639 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5641 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5643 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5644 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5647 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5648 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5651 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5652 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5653 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5654 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5655 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5658 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5659 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5662 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5663 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5664 $sender_host_address.
5666 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5668 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5669 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5670 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5672 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5675 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5676 (this can affect the format of dates).
5678 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5679 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5680 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5681 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5683 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5684 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5685 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5687 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5688 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5689 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5690 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5692 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5693 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5694 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5696 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5699 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5700 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5701 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5702 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5703 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5704 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5707 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5708 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5709 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5710 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5713 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5714 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5715 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5716 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5717 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5718 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5719 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5721 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5722 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5723 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5724 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5725 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5726 running as the user.
5729 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5730 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5731 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5734 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5735 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5736 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5737 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5738 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5740 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5741 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5742 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5743 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5746 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5747 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5748 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5749 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5750 because the tests only now provoked it.
5756 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5757 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5758 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5759 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5760 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5761 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5762 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5764 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5765 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5768 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5770 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5772 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5773 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5776 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5777 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5778 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5779 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5780 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5782 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5783 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5785 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5787 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5789 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5792 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5793 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5795 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5796 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5797 affecting debugging statements).
5799 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5801 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5802 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5803 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5804 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5805 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5806 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5807 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5808 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5809 after the received time, and all would be well.
5811 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5812 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5813 condition in an expansion string.
5815 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5817 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5818 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5819 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5820 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5821 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5822 job under whatever limits there are.
5824 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5826 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5829 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5830 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5831 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5832 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5835 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5836 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5837 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5838 binary data in such strings.
5840 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5842 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5843 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5844 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5845 failure, which is pointless.
5847 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5849 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5851 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5852 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5853 Sender: header lines.
5855 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5856 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5857 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5859 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5860 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5861 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5862 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5863 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5866 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5867 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5868 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5869 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5870 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5872 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5873 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5874 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5877 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5878 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5880 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5881 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5883 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5885 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5887 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5889 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5892 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5894 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5896 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5897 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5898 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5899 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5901 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5902 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5908 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5909 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5910 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5912 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5913 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5914 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5915 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5916 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5917 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5919 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5920 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5921 verification failure".
5923 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5924 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5925 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5926 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5928 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5929 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5930 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5931 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5932 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5933 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5934 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5935 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5936 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5937 treated as a timeout.
5939 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5940 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5941 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5942 not set for Exim filters).
5944 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5945 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5946 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5948 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5950 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5951 try to make them clearer.
5953 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5954 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5956 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5958 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5960 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5961 only the Cygwin environment.
5963 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5964 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5965 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5966 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5967 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5969 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5970 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5971 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5972 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5973 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5974 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5975 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5977 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5978 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5980 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5982 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5983 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5984 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5986 To: susanne@some.where
5988 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5989 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5990 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5991 of addresses in From: header lines).
5993 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5994 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5995 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5997 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5998 treated as non-personal.
6000 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6001 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6003 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6005 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6007 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6008 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6009 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6011 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6012 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6014 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6015 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6016 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6017 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6018 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6019 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6021 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6022 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6023 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6024 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6025 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6026 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6027 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6028 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6030 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6032 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6033 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6035 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6036 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6037 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6039 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6040 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6042 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6043 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6044 rather than long int.
6046 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6048 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6054 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6055 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6056 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6057 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6058 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6059 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6065 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6066 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6068 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6069 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6070 socklen_t is defined.
6072 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6075 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6078 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6079 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6080 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6081 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6082 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6084 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6085 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6086 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6087 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6089 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6090 of flapping under certain conditions.
6092 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6093 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6094 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6096 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6098 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6100 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6101 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6102 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6103 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6105 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6106 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6107 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6108 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6109 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6110 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6111 preserved with the message after it was received.
6113 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6114 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6115 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6116 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6117 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6118 test suite worked just fine.
6120 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6121 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6122 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6124 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6125 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6128 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6129 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6130 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6131 does not fully solve it.
6133 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6134 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6135 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6136 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6137 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6139 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6140 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6141 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6143 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6144 string, for example:
6146 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6148 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6149 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6150 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6151 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6152 the routers could not see them.
6154 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6155 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6157 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6158 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6161 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6162 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6163 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6164 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6165 that needed quoting.
6167 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6168 was not being matched caselessly.
6170 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6173 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6174 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6175 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6176 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6177 when use_sender is false.
6179 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6181 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6183 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6185 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6186 the configuration file.
6188 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6189 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6191 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6193 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6194 bytes in the message body.
6196 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6197 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6200 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6202 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6204 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6205 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6206 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6207 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6214 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6215 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6217 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6218 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6219 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6220 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6221 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6223 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6224 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6226 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6227 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6228 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6230 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6231 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6232 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6234 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6237 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6238 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6239 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6240 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6241 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6242 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6243 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6249 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6250 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6251 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6252 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6253 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6254 default (and expected) setting.
6256 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6257 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6258 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6259 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6261 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6262 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6264 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6267 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6268 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6269 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6270 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6271 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6272 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6274 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6275 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6276 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6278 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6279 part (NOT match_host).
6281 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6283 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6284 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6285 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6286 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6287 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6288 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6289 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6290 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6291 the same named file.
6293 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6294 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6297 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6298 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6299 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6300 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6303 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6304 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6305 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6307 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6309 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6311 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6313 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6314 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6316 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6317 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6318 before starting the TLS session.
6320 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6322 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6323 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6325 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6326 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6327 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6328 colon in the middle).
6334 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6335 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6336 multiple configurations are in use.
6338 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6339 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6340 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6341 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6342 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6343 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6345 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6346 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6348 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6349 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6350 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6352 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6353 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6356 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6357 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6359 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6361 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6362 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6364 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6372 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6373 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6374 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6375 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6376 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6378 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6381 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6382 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6383 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6384 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6385 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6386 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6388 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6389 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6390 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6391 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6392 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6393 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6394 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6397 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6398 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6399 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6400 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6401 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6403 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6405 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6406 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6407 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6409 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6411 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6412 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6413 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6416 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6417 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6419 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6420 Three changes have been made:
6422 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6423 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6424 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6425 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6426 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6428 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6431 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6432 the modified behaviour.
6438 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6441 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6442 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6444 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6445 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6446 try to track down a specific problem.
6448 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6449 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6450 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6452 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6455 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6456 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6457 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6458 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6459 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6460 some earlier ones do not.
6462 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6464 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6465 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6466 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6467 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6468 address literals are enabled, of course).
6470 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6472 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6473 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6474 by a command such as
6478 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6480 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6482 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6483 remained set. It is now erased.
6485 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6486 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6488 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6489 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6490 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6491 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6492 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6493 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6494 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6495 appropriate error code.
6497 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6498 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6499 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6500 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6501 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6502 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6504 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6505 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6506 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6508 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6509 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6510 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6511 terminate the header.
6513 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6514 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6515 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6517 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6518 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6519 (4.30/29). In particular:
6521 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6524 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6525 to write a maildirsize file.
6527 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6528 the transport, the new value overrides.
6530 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6533 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6534 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6535 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6538 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6539 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6540 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6543 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6544 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6545 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6547 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6548 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6551 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6552 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6553 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6555 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6557 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6559 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6561 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6562 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6565 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6566 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6567 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6568 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6569 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6570 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6571 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6574 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6575 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6576 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6577 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6578 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6581 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6582 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6583 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6584 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6585 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6586 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6587 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6588 cached value only when the same options are set.
6590 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6592 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6593 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6594 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6595 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6596 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6598 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6599 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6600 it is clearly obsolete.
6602 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6605 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6606 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6607 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6610 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6611 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6612 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6613 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6614 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6616 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6617 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6618 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6619 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6621 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6623 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6625 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6626 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6629 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6630 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6631 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6632 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6633 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6634 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6637 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6638 with the -f command-line option.
6640 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6641 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6642 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6643 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6644 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6645 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6647 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6648 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6651 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6652 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6653 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6654 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6655 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6656 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6657 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6658 buffer is too small.
6660 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6661 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6663 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6664 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6665 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6666 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6667 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6668 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6669 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6670 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6671 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6673 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6674 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6675 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6677 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6678 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6681 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6682 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6683 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6684 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6685 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6687 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6688 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6689 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6690 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6693 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6695 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6697 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6698 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6700 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6701 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6702 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6704 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6705 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6706 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6707 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6708 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6710 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6711 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6712 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6713 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6714 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6715 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6716 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6718 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6719 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6720 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6721 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6722 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6723 the test of how many are available.
6725 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6726 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6727 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6728 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6729 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6730 new message is started.
6732 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6733 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6735 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6736 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6738 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6739 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6740 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6743 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6744 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6745 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6746 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6747 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6748 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6749 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6751 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6752 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6753 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6754 interpreted as octal.
6756 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6759 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6760 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6761 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6762 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6763 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6764 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6766 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6767 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6768 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6769 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6771 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6772 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6773 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6774 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6776 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6777 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6780 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6781 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6783 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6785 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6786 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6787 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6788 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6790 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6791 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6792 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6793 supplied", which is not helpful.
6795 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6796 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6797 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6799 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6800 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6801 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6802 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6803 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6804 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6805 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6806 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6808 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6809 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6810 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6811 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6812 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6814 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6815 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6816 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6817 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6818 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6819 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6821 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6822 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6823 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6825 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6827 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6828 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6829 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6832 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6834 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6835 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6836 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6837 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6838 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6839 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6840 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6841 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6843 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6844 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6845 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6846 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6847 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6849 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6852 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6853 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6854 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6855 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6856 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6857 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6858 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6859 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6860 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6866 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6867 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6868 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6870 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6873 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6874 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6875 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6877 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6878 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6879 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6880 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6881 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6882 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6884 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6885 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6886 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6887 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6888 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6889 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6890 the Exim test suite.
6892 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6893 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6894 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6895 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6897 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6898 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6899 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6900 specify it in this variable.
6902 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6903 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6904 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6905 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6907 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6908 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6909 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6910 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6912 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6913 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6914 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6915 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6916 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6918 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6920 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6923 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6924 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6925 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6926 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6927 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6929 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6930 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6932 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6933 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6934 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6935 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6936 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6938 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6939 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6941 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6942 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6943 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6945 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6946 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6948 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6949 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6951 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6952 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6953 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6955 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6956 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6958 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6959 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6960 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6961 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6963 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6965 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6966 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6967 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6968 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6970 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6972 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6973 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6975 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6977 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6978 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6979 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6980 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6981 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6982 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6984 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6986 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6987 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6990 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6992 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6993 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6995 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6996 550 Sender verify failed
6998 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6999 the final line of the response.
7001 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7002 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7003 all other user lookups.
7005 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7008 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7009 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7010 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7011 result into an int without checking.
7013 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7014 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7015 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7017 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7018 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7019 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7020 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7022 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7025 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7026 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7028 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7029 to the empty sender.
7031 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7032 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7033 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7034 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7035 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7036 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7037 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7040 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7041 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7042 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7043 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7046 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7047 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7049 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7052 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7053 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7055 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7057 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7058 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7061 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7062 as soon as it is encountered.
7064 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7066 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7069 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7070 recognizes a tab character.
7072 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7073 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7074 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7075 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7077 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7079 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7082 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7084 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7086 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7087 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7090 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7091 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7092 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7093 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7094 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7096 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7097 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7099 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7100 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7101 list (.included file names were always shown).
7103 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7104 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7105 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7108 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7109 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7111 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7113 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7115 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7117 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7118 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7119 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7120 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7121 failures to open the logs.
7123 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7124 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7125 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7126 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7127 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7128 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7129 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7135 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7136 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7137 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7140 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7141 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7142 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7144 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7145 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7146 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7148 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7149 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7150 causing some misleading effects.
7152 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7153 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7154 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7156 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7157 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7158 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7159 queue-runner function directly.
7165 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7168 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7169 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7170 was always written to the default place.
7172 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7173 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7174 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7176 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7178 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7180 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7181 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7182 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7184 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7185 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7188 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7189 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7190 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7192 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7193 command line option is disabled.
7195 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7196 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7198 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7200 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7202 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7203 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7205 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7207 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7208 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7209 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7210 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7211 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7212 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7214 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7215 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7218 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7219 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7221 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7222 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7224 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7225 received was valid base64.
7227 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7228 name of the variable that was being set.
7230 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7232 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7233 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7234 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7235 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7236 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7237 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7239 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7241 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7242 nor realm was specified.
7244 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7245 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7246 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7247 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7249 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7250 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7251 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7253 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7254 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7255 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7257 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7258 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7259 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7260 some systems use these upper case variants.
7262 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7263 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7264 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7265 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7267 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7269 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7270 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7272 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7273 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7276 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7278 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7279 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7280 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7281 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7283 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7286 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7287 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7288 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7290 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7291 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7293 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7294 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7295 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7296 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7298 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7299 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7300 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7302 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7304 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7305 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7306 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7307 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7310 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7311 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7312 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7314 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7316 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7317 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7319 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7320 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7322 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7323 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7324 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7325 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7326 when emails are that large.
7333 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7334 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7336 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7337 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7338 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7340 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7341 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7342 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7344 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7345 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7346 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7347 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7348 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7350 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7351 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7352 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7353 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7354 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7357 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7358 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7359 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7360 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7361 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7362 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7363 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7364 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7365 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7366 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7367 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7368 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7369 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7370 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7372 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7373 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7376 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7377 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7378 error should be diagnosed.
7380 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7381 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7382 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7383 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7384 appeared instead of "NULL".
7386 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7387 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7388 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7389 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7390 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7391 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7394 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7395 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7396 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7402 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7403 or receiver verification errors.
7405 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7408 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7409 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7410 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7411 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7413 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7414 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7415 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7416 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7417 shouldn't happen again.
7419 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7420 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7421 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7423 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7424 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7426 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7428 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7429 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7431 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7432 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7435 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7436 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7437 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7439 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7440 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7441 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7442 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7444 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7445 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7446 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7447 to define what should happen).
7449 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7450 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7451 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7453 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7455 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7457 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7458 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7460 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7461 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7462 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7463 structure in all cases.
7465 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7466 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7467 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7468 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7470 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7471 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7474 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7475 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7477 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7478 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7480 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7481 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7482 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7484 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7485 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7486 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7488 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7489 the book and for uniformity.
7491 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7493 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7494 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7495 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7496 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7497 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7498 non-existent command as the problem.
7500 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7501 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7502 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7504 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7506 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7507 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7508 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7510 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7511 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7512 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7513 timestamps using strftime().
7515 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7516 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7518 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7519 transport-time rewrites.
7521 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7522 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7523 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7524 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7526 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7527 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7529 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7530 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7531 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7532 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7535 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7536 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7537 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7538 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7539 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7540 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7541 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7543 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7544 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7545 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7546 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7547 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7549 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7550 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7551 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7552 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7553 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7554 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7555 remaining text gets split now.
7557 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7558 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7559 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7560 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7562 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7563 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7564 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7565 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7568 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7569 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7570 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7571 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7572 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7573 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7574 passed through if needed.
7576 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7577 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7578 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7579 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7580 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7581 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7583 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7584 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7585 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7586 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7587 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7589 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7590 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7591 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7592 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7593 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7595 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7596 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7599 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7600 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7601 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7602 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7603 mayhem of various kinds.
7605 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7606 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7607 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7608 the right test for positive values.
7610 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7611 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7612 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7613 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7614 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7615 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7616 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7617 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7618 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7619 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7622 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7625 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7626 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7629 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7630 the existing equality matching.
7632 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7633 dealing with inode numbers.
7635 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7636 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7637 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7639 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7640 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7641 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7642 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7645 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7646 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7647 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7648 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7649 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7650 relay addresses has also been removed.
7652 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7654 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7655 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7656 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7658 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7659 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7660 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7661 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7662 processing applies to CR:
7664 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7665 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7667 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7668 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7669 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7670 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7672 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7673 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7674 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7676 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7677 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7678 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7679 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7680 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7681 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7684 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7687 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7688 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7689 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7690 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7693 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7695 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7697 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7699 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7700 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7701 not considered personal.
7703 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7705 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7707 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7709 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7710 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7711 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7712 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7713 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7714 header lines, and spool format errors.
7716 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7717 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7718 for more flexibility.
7720 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7721 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7722 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7724 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7727 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7728 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7729 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7730 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7731 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7732 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7733 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7734 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7735 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7737 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7738 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7739 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7740 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7741 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7742 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7743 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7745 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7746 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7747 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7749 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7750 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7751 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7752 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7753 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7754 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7755 instead of killing the process with assert().
7757 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7758 than Unicode encoding.
7760 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7761 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7762 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7763 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7765 77. Added process_log_path.
7767 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7768 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7770 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7771 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7773 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7774 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7775 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7777 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7778 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7779 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7780 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7781 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7784 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7785 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7788 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7789 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7790 they will be used during message reception.
7796 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.