1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
12 non-signal-safe functions being used.
14 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
15 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
16 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
18 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
19 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
20 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
21 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart.
23 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
24 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
25 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
26 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
27 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
28 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
29 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
31 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
34 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
35 Previously this would segfault.
37 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
40 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
42 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
44 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
45 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
46 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
48 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
49 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
50 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
51 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
53 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
54 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
55 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
57 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
58 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
59 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
60 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
62 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
63 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
64 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
66 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
67 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
68 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
70 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
71 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
78 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
79 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
80 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
81 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
82 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
83 be defined in redis_servers.
85 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
86 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
88 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
89 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
90 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
93 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
94 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
96 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
97 Previously only the last row was returned.
99 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
100 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
101 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
102 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
105 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
106 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
107 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
108 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
109 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
110 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
111 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
112 Main pool for expansions.
113 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
114 active in the testsuite.
115 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
117 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
118 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
119 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
120 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
123 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
124 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
127 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
128 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
129 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
131 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
132 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
133 ClamAV interface method is removed.
135 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
136 rows affected is given instead).
138 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
139 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
141 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
142 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
143 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
144 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
145 for all multi-message initiating connections.
147 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
148 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
149 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
151 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
152 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
153 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
154 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
157 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
158 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
159 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
162 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
164 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
165 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
167 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
168 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
169 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
171 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
172 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
173 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
176 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
177 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
179 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
180 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
181 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
183 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
184 for the build is renamed.
186 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
187 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
188 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
190 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
191 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
192 result replacing the original.
194 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
195 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
196 and the resources needed to be freed.
198 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
200 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
203 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
204 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
205 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
206 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
208 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
209 length value. Previously this would segfault.
211 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
212 newer versions of the scanner.
214 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
215 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
216 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
217 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
218 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
219 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
220 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
222 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
223 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
224 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
225 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
226 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
227 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
228 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
229 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
230 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
231 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
233 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
234 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
236 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
238 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
239 allows proper process termination in container environments.
241 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
242 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
244 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
245 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
246 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
248 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
249 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
250 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
251 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
253 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
254 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
257 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
258 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
260 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
261 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
262 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
263 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
264 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
266 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
267 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
270 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
271 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
273 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
276 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
277 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
278 "bare" representation.
280 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
281 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
282 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
283 corrupted the output.
289 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
290 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
291 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
292 pairs of long lines into single ones.
294 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
295 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
297 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
298 This permits better logging.
300 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
301 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
302 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
303 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
304 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
305 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
307 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
308 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
311 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
312 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
313 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
315 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
316 than 255 are no longer allowed.
318 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
319 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
320 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
321 client, there is no benefit for these.
322 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
323 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
324 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
327 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
328 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
330 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
331 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
332 erroneously found still-pending ones.
334 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
335 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
337 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
338 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
339 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
340 signature and again for transmission.
342 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
343 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
344 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
346 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
347 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
348 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
349 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
350 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
351 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
352 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
354 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
355 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
356 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
357 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
359 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
360 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
361 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
362 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
363 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
364 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
367 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
368 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
369 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
370 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
373 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
374 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
375 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
376 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
379 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
380 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
383 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
384 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
385 banner-time rejection.
387 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
390 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
391 is the name of a transport.
394 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
396 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
397 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
399 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
400 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
401 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
404 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
405 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
406 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
407 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
409 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
410 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
411 initial verify call returned a defer.
413 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
414 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
416 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
417 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
419 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
420 if present. Previously it was ignored.
422 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
423 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
425 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
426 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
429 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
430 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
432 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
433 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
434 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
436 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
437 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
438 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
439 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
441 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
442 and confused the parent.
444 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
445 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
447 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
450 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
451 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
452 out-of-order delivery.
454 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
455 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
456 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
459 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
460 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
463 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
464 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
465 one run was done. Bug 2189.
467 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
468 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
469 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
470 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
471 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
472 message is still "Temporary local problem".
474 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
475 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
476 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
478 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
479 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
480 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
482 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
483 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
484 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
485 though a different problem.
491 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
492 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
494 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
496 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
497 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
499 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
500 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
502 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
503 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
504 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
505 before acknowledging the chunk.
507 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
508 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
509 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
511 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
512 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
513 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
516 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
517 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
518 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
520 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
521 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
523 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
524 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
525 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
526 body hash calculated value.
528 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
529 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
530 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
532 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
534 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
535 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
537 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
538 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
539 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
541 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
542 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
543 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
544 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
545 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
546 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
548 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
549 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
550 past that check, despite the cost.
552 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
553 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
554 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
556 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
557 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
558 TLS library to consume.
560 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
562 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
564 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
565 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
566 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
567 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
568 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
569 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
570 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
572 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
574 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
576 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
577 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
578 should be warning-free.
580 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
582 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
583 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
585 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
586 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
587 general solution here.
589 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
590 already-broken messages in the queue.
592 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
594 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
600 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
601 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
603 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
604 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
605 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
607 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
608 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
609 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
610 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
611 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
612 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
613 if one fails this test.
614 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
615 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
617 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
618 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
620 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
621 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
623 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
624 in rewrites and routers.
626 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
627 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
629 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
630 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
632 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
634 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
637 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
638 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
639 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
640 connection after a verify cache hit.
641 Do not update it with the verify result either.
643 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
644 when routing results in more than one destination address.
646 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
647 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
648 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
649 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
650 when the cutthrough connection is made).
652 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
653 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
655 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
656 Previously they were not counted.
658 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
659 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
660 that needed the lookup.
662 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
663 distinguished as "(=".
665 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
666 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
668 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
670 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
671 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
673 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
674 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
676 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
677 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
680 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
681 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
682 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
683 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
685 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
687 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
688 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
689 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
691 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
692 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
693 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
696 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
697 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
698 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
701 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
702 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
703 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
705 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
706 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
709 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
711 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
712 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
714 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
715 are not in the system include path.
717 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
718 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
719 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
720 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
722 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
723 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
724 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
726 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
728 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
729 an incoming connection.
731 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
734 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
735 fallback to "prime256v1".
737 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
738 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
744 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
745 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
746 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
747 client dropping the TLS connection.
749 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
750 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
752 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
753 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
754 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
755 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
758 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
759 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
760 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
761 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
762 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
763 check on the next write.
765 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
766 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
767 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
768 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
769 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
771 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
772 mime_regex ACL conditions.
774 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
775 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
776 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
778 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
779 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
780 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
781 an authenticate fail is not an error.
783 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
784 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
786 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
787 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
789 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
790 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
791 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
794 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
796 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
798 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
800 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
801 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
803 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
804 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
806 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
808 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
809 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
811 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
813 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
814 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
816 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
818 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
819 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
820 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
821 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
822 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
823 they will retry in-clear.
824 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
825 at installation time.
827 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
828 with the $config_file variable.
830 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
831 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
832 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
833 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
834 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
836 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
837 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
838 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
839 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
840 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
842 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
844 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
845 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
846 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
847 list order is no longer honoured.
849 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
852 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
853 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
855 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
856 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
857 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
858 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
860 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
861 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
863 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
864 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
866 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
867 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
869 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
871 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
872 cached by the daemon.
874 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
875 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
877 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
878 keys are given for lookup.
880 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
881 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
882 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
883 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
885 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
886 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
887 server-side so match that on older versions.
889 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
890 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
891 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
893 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
894 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
896 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
897 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
898 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
899 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
900 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
901 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
902 initial truncated version.
904 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
906 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
908 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
909 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
911 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
913 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
915 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
916 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
919 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
920 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
923 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
924 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
926 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
927 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
930 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
931 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
932 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
934 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
935 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
936 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
937 extraction. Accept either.
943 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
946 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
948 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
951 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
952 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
953 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
954 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
956 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
957 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
958 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
960 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
961 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
962 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
965 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
968 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
969 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
970 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
971 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
972 have a dsn_lasthop option.
974 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
975 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
976 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
978 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
980 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
981 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
983 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
984 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
986 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
989 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
990 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
992 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
993 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
994 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
996 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
997 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
998 specify a port-range.
1000 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1001 timeout value per server.
1003 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1004 now have the list separator specified.
1006 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1009 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1012 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1014 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1015 rather than the verbs used.
1017 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1018 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1020 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1022 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1023 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1025 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1026 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1028 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1029 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1031 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1033 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1035 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1036 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1037 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1038 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1040 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1042 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1043 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1045 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1046 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1048 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1050 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1052 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1054 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1055 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1057 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1058 added for tls authenticator.
1060 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1066 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1067 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1068 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1069 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1070 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1071 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1072 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1074 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1075 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1076 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1077 function when detected.
1079 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1080 cause callback expansion.
1082 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1083 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1084 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1085 instead of bool when processing it.
1087 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1088 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1090 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1092 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1094 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1096 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1097 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1099 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1100 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1101 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1102 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1103 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1104 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1106 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1107 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1110 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1111 version 3.3.6 or later.
1113 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1114 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1115 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1116 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1117 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1118 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1121 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1122 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1124 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1125 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1126 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1129 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1130 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1131 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1133 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1134 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1136 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1137 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1140 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1142 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1143 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1145 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1146 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1149 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1151 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1154 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1155 output list separator was used.
1160 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1161 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1164 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1165 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1167 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1169 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1170 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1176 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1178 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1179 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1180 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1181 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1182 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1183 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1185 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1186 utilities have not been installed.
1188 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1189 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1191 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1192 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1194 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1195 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1196 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1197 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1199 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1201 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1202 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1204 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1207 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1209 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1210 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1211 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1213 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1214 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1215 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1216 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1217 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1218 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1220 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1222 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1223 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1225 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1228 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1230 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1232 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1233 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1235 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1236 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1238 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1240 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1242 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1243 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1245 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1246 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1247 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1249 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1250 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1251 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1254 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1256 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1257 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1260 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1261 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1264 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1265 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1267 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1268 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1270 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1272 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1273 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1274 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1276 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1277 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1279 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1280 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1283 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1284 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1285 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1287 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1289 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1290 Christian Aistleitner.
1292 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1294 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1295 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1297 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1298 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1300 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1301 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1303 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1304 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1306 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1307 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1309 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1310 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1311 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1313 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1315 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1316 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1319 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1321 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1322 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1329 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1331 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1332 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1334 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1337 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1338 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1341 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1343 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1344 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1345 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1346 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1347 using channel bindings instead).
1349 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1350 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1351 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1352 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1353 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1356 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1358 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1360 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1361 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1363 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1364 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1365 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1367 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1369 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1371 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1372 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1374 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1376 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1378 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1380 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1381 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1383 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1385 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1386 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1389 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1390 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1392 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1393 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1396 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1398 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1400 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1401 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1403 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1406 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1407 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1409 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1410 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1412 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1414 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1416 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1419 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1422 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1424 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1425 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1426 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1427 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1429 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1431 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1432 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1433 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1434 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1437 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1438 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1439 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1441 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1442 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1443 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1444 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1446 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1447 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1448 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1449 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1450 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1451 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1452 delivery, as in LMTP.
1454 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1455 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1457 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1459 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1463 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1464 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1465 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1466 username as equal to the username.
1468 This change corrects that bug.
1470 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1471 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1472 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1474 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1476 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1477 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1478 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1479 NULL dereference and crash.
1481 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1483 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1484 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1485 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1487 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1489 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1490 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1491 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1492 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1493 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1494 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1495 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1496 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1497 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1498 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1499 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1501 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1502 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1504 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1505 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1508 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1509 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1510 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1511 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1512 an empty string is now equivalent.
1514 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1515 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1516 not performing validation itself.
1518 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1519 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1521 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1524 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1526 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1527 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1528 other false fix of the same issue.
1529 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1532 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1533 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1535 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1536 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1537 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1539 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1540 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1541 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1543 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1545 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1547 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1548 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1550 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1553 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1554 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1555 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1556 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1557 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1559 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1560 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1562 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1563 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1566 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1567 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1568 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1569 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1571 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1573 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1574 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1575 from multiple comments on this bug.
1577 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1579 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1580 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1583 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1584 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1586 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1587 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1593 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1595 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1601 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1602 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1603 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1605 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1607 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1610 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1612 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1614 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1616 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1617 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1619 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1620 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1622 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1623 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1625 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1626 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1627 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1629 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1631 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1632 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1634 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1636 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1638 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1639 non-compliant senders.
1640 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1642 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1643 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1644 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1646 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1647 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1648 in spool file corruption.
1650 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1651 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1652 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1655 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1656 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1657 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1659 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1660 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1662 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1664 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1666 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1668 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1669 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1670 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1672 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1673 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1674 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1675 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1677 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1678 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1680 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1681 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1682 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1683 resolver implementation change.
1685 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1686 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1688 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1690 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1692 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1693 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1695 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1696 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1698 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1699 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1701 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1702 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1703 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1704 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1705 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1707 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1709 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1710 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1711 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1713 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1715 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1716 read-only, out of scope).
1717 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1719 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1720 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1721 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1722 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1724 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1726 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1727 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1728 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1729 real issues in debug logging.
1731 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1732 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1734 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1735 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1736 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1738 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1739 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1740 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1743 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1744 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1746 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1747 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1748 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1749 needs to override this, it can.
1751 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1752 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1753 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1755 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1756 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1757 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1758 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1760 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1766 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1767 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1769 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1771 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1774 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1775 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1777 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1778 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1779 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1781 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1782 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1783 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1784 not safe for signals.
1786 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1787 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1788 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1789 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1792 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1794 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1795 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1796 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1797 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1798 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1800 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1801 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1802 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1803 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1804 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1805 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1807 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1808 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1809 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1810 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1812 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1813 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1814 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1815 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1817 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1818 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1819 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1820 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1821 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1822 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1823 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1824 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1825 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1827 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1828 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1829 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1830 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1832 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1833 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1834 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1835 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1836 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1837 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1838 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1839 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1840 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1841 details in the main documentation.
1843 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1845 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1847 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1848 repository when doing development or release builds.
1850 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1851 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1853 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1854 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1857 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1859 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1860 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1862 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1863 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1865 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1866 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1868 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1869 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1871 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1872 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1874 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1876 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1879 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1880 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1881 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1883 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1885 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1887 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1888 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1894 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1896 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1897 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1899 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1901 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1903 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1906 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1907 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1909 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1910 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1912 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1913 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1915 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1918 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1919 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1921 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1922 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1923 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1924 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1926 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1927 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1933 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1936 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1937 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1938 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1940 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1941 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1943 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1944 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1945 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1947 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1948 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1950 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1951 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1953 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1954 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1956 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1957 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1959 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1960 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1962 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1965 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1966 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1968 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1969 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1971 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1972 SQL string expansion failure details.
1973 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1975 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1976 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1978 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1979 extern declarations in function scope.
1980 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1982 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1983 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1984 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1987 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1988 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1990 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1991 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1993 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1994 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1996 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1997 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1999 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2000 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2003 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2005 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2007 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2008 Patch by Simon Arlott
2010 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2011 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2017 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2018 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2020 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2021 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2023 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2025 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2026 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2027 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2029 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2030 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2031 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2033 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2034 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2035 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2036 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2038 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2039 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2040 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2041 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2043 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2044 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2045 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2048 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2051 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2052 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2053 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2054 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2055 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2061 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2062 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2063 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2065 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2066 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2068 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2070 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2072 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2074 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2076 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2078 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2079 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2080 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2081 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2083 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2084 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2085 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2086 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2087 more caution in buffer sizes.
2089 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2091 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2093 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2095 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2097 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2099 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2101 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2103 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2104 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2105 ignore trailing whitespace.
2107 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2109 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2112 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2113 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2115 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2116 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2117 Notification from John Horne.
2119 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2122 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2123 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2126 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2129 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2130 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2131 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2133 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2134 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2135 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2138 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2139 option (effectively making it always true).
2141 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2142 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2144 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2145 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2147 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2148 run-time user, instead of root.
2150 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2151 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2153 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2154 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2157 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2158 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2159 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2161 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2163 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2169 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2170 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2173 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2174 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2177 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2178 Patch from Alain Williams
2180 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2182 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2183 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2185 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2186 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2188 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2190 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2192 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2193 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2195 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2197 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2199 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2200 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2201 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2203 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2204 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2206 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2207 Patch by Simon Arlott
2209 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2210 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2216 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2218 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2220 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2222 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2224 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2230 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2231 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2233 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2234 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2237 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2238 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2239 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2241 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2242 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2244 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2245 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2246 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2247 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2249 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2250 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2251 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2253 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2255 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2257 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2258 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2260 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2262 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2263 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2264 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2265 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2267 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2268 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2270 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2272 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2274 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2275 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2277 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2278 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2280 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2281 that they are available at delivery time.
2283 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2285 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2286 incoming_port log selectors.
2288 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2289 setting expands to an empty string.
2291 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2292 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2294 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2295 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2297 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2298 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2300 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2301 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2303 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2304 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2306 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2307 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2309 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2311 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2312 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2314 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2315 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2317 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2319 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2320 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2322 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2324 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2326 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2329 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2330 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2332 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2333 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2335 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2336 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2338 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2339 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2341 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2342 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2344 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2345 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2347 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2348 plus update to original patch.
2350 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2352 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2353 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2355 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2357 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2359 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2361 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2363 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2364 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2366 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2367 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2369 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2370 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2372 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2373 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2375 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2377 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2379 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2381 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2387 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2388 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2389 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2391 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2392 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2393 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2394 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2395 build errors in sieve.c.
2397 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2398 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2399 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2401 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2403 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2405 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2407 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2413 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2415 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2416 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2417 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2418 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2419 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2420 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2421 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2422 for iplsearch lookups.
2424 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2425 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2426 previously such lookups could never work.
2428 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2429 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2430 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2432 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2435 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2436 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2437 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2438 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2439 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2440 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2442 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2443 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2445 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2446 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2447 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2448 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2449 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2450 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2452 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2455 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2457 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2458 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2461 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2462 by clients under certain conditions.
2464 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2465 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2467 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2469 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2470 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2472 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2474 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2476 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2478 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2479 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2481 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2483 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2484 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2486 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2488 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2490 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2491 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2492 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2493 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2495 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2496 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2497 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2499 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2500 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2502 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2504 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2506 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2508 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2509 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2510 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2516 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2517 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2520 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2521 issue a MAIL command.
2523 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2525 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2527 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2528 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2529 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2530 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2531 item. This has been fixed.
2533 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2534 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2536 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2537 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2539 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2540 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2541 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2543 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2545 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2546 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2547 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2548 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2549 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2551 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2552 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2553 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2555 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2556 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2557 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2558 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2560 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2562 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2564 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2565 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2566 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2567 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2568 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2570 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2572 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2573 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2574 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2577 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2579 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2581 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2583 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2585 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2587 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2588 no_callout_flush is set.
2590 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2591 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2592 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2595 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2597 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2598 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2599 other ACL rejections are.
2601 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2602 with slight modification.
2604 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2605 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2607 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2608 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2611 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2612 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2614 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2616 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2617 expansion side effects.
2619 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2620 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2621 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2624 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2625 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2626 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2628 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2629 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2630 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2631 were accidentally chopped off.
2633 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2634 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2635 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2636 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2637 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2638 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2639 pipelining has not been advertised.
2641 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2643 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2644 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2645 This has been fixed.
2647 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2648 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2649 reported on Solaris.
2651 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2652 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2653 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2654 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2655 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2656 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2657 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2659 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2662 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2664 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2666 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2667 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2668 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2669 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2670 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2671 criteria to be more general.
2673 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2674 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2675 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2676 host_all_ignored option.
2678 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2679 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2680 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2681 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2682 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2683 is what is supposed to happen).
2685 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2686 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2687 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2688 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2689 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2692 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2693 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2694 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2695 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2696 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2697 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2700 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2702 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2703 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2705 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2706 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2708 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2710 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2712 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2713 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2714 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2715 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2716 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2717 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2718 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2719 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2720 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2721 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2722 least in a lot of common cases.
2724 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2725 advertised in response to EHLO.
2731 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2732 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2734 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2735 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2737 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2738 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2739 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2741 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2742 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2743 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2744 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2745 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2751 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2752 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2755 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2756 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2757 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2759 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2760 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2761 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2762 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2763 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2764 rather than extend the field.
2770 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2771 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2772 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2773 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2776 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2777 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2778 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2780 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2781 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2782 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2784 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2785 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2786 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2789 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2790 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2791 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2792 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2793 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2794 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2795 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2796 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2797 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2798 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2799 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2801 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2804 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2805 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2806 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2807 ignores EPIPE as well.
2809 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2810 (quoted-printable decoding).
2812 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2813 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2815 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2817 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2819 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2821 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2822 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2824 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2827 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2828 miscellaneous code fixes
2830 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2833 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2834 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2835 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2836 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2837 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2838 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2839 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2840 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2842 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2843 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2844 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2845 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2847 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2848 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2849 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2850 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2851 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2852 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2853 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2854 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2855 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2857 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2860 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2861 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2862 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2863 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2864 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2865 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2866 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2867 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2869 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2870 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2873 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2874 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2875 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2876 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2877 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2878 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2879 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2880 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2881 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2882 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2883 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2884 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2885 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2887 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2888 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2889 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2890 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2891 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2892 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2893 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2895 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2896 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2897 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2898 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2899 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2900 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2901 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2902 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2903 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2904 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2906 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2907 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2908 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2909 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2910 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2912 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2913 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2914 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2915 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2916 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2917 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2918 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2920 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2921 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2922 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2923 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2924 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2925 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2928 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2929 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2930 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2933 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2934 if any retry times were supplied.
2936 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2937 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2938 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2940 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2942 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2944 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2945 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2946 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2947 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2948 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2949 before) are ignored.
2951 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2952 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2954 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2955 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2956 committing the later change.]
2958 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2959 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2960 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2961 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2962 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2963 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2964 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2965 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2966 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2968 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2969 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2970 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2971 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2972 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2973 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2974 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2975 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2976 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2978 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2979 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2980 hammering the server.
2982 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2983 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2985 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2987 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2988 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2989 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2991 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2992 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2993 one case where this was not true.
2995 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2996 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2997 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2998 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3001 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3002 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3003 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3004 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3005 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3006 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3007 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3008 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3009 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3012 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3013 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3014 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3015 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3017 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3018 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3020 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3021 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3022 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3024 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3026 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3028 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3030 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3031 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3032 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3033 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3035 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3036 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3038 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3039 be meaningful with "accept".
3041 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3042 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3044 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3045 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3046 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3048 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3049 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3050 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3051 there is data to show.
3052 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3054 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3055 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3056 as well as the number of messages.
3058 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3059 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3060 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3062 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3063 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3064 have a flag are now skipped.
3066 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3067 Added the -emptyok flag.
3069 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3070 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3072 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3073 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3074 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3076 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3079 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3080 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3082 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3084 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3085 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3087 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3089 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3090 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3091 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3092 contravention of the specifications.
3094 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3095 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3096 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3098 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3099 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3100 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3102 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3104 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3105 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3106 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3107 some point in the past.
3109 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3110 transport during callout processing was broken.
3112 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3113 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3115 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3116 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3118 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3119 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3121 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3127 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3128 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3130 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3131 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3132 there is data to show.
3133 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3135 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3136 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3138 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3139 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3141 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3142 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3144 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3145 submissions from trusted users.
3147 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3148 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3150 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3151 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3152 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3153 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3154 there is now a framework to start from.
3156 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3157 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3158 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3160 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3162 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3164 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3166 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3167 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3168 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3170 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3173 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3174 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3175 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3177 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3178 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3179 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3182 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3183 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3184 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3185 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3186 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3188 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3189 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3191 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3193 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3194 operations in malware.c.
3196 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3199 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3200 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3201 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3204 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3205 statements to "add_header".
3207 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3208 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3210 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3211 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3214 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3218 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3219 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3220 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3223 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3224 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3226 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3227 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3229 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3230 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3231 any possible encoding problems.
3233 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3234 but not after initializing Perl.
3236 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3237 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3238 apparently, which is not desirable.
3240 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3243 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3246 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3248 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3249 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3250 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3251 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3253 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3254 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3255 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3257 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3258 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3259 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3262 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3263 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3264 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3265 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3266 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3272 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3273 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3275 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3278 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3279 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3280 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3281 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3282 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3283 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3284 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3285 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3288 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3290 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3291 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3292 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3294 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3295 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3296 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3299 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3300 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3302 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3303 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3304 option (which defaults to 0600).
3306 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3308 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3309 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3310 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3311 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3312 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3313 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3314 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3316 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3322 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3323 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3324 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3325 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3326 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3327 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3330 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3331 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3333 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3335 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3336 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3337 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3338 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3339 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3342 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3343 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3345 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3346 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3347 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3348 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3349 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3351 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3352 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3353 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3354 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3356 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3357 be the same on different OS.
3359 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3362 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3363 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3365 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3368 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3369 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3370 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3371 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3372 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3373 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3376 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3377 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3378 when Exim was called.
3380 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3381 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3383 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3384 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3385 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3386 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3388 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3389 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3390 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3391 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3394 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3395 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3396 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3398 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3399 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3400 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3402 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3405 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3406 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3407 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3408 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3409 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3410 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3411 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3412 values from the SRV records were lost.
3414 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3415 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3416 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3418 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3419 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3420 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3422 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3423 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3424 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3425 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3426 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3427 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3428 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3429 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3430 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3431 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3433 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3434 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3435 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3437 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3438 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3440 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3441 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3442 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3443 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3446 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3447 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3448 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3450 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3451 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3452 PH/23 above applies.
3454 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3455 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3456 (for which there is an explicit test).
3458 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3460 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3461 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3462 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3463 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3464 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3466 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3467 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3468 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3469 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3471 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3472 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3473 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3475 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3477 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3479 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3480 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3481 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3483 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3484 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3485 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3486 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3487 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3489 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3490 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3491 the message gets confusing).
3493 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3494 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3495 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3496 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3498 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3499 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3500 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3501 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3504 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3505 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3506 the different processes.
3508 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3510 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3512 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3513 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3515 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3516 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3518 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3519 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3520 messages matching specified criteria.
3522 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3524 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3525 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3527 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3528 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3529 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3530 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3531 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3532 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3533 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3534 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3535 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3536 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3538 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3539 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3540 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3542 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3544 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3545 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3546 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3547 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3548 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3549 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3550 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3553 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3554 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3556 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3558 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3560 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3562 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3563 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3564 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3565 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3566 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3567 size of the count of files.
3569 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3571 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3574 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3575 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3576 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3577 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3579 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3580 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3581 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3583 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3584 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3585 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3586 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3587 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3589 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3590 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3592 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3593 will now be deprecated.
3595 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3597 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3598 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3599 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3601 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3602 with very large, slow to parse queues
3604 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3606 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3608 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3609 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3610 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3613 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3614 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3615 Sieve code now uses this.
3617 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3618 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3620 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3621 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3623 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3625 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3626 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3627 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3628 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3629 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3631 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3632 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3633 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3634 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3636 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3638 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3640 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3641 is preferred over IPv4.
3643 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3644 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3645 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3646 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3647 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3648 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3649 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3651 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3652 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3653 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3655 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3657 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3658 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3659 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3660 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3661 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3662 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3663 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3664 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3665 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3666 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3667 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3669 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3670 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3671 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3677 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3679 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3680 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3682 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3683 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3684 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3686 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3688 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3691 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3694 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3695 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3696 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3699 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3700 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3702 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3703 inside the third argument.
3705 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3706 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3709 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3710 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3712 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3713 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3715 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3717 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3718 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3721 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3723 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3724 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3725 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3726 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3727 identical. For example:
3729 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3731 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3732 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3733 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3735 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3736 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3737 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3738 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3740 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3741 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3742 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3745 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3747 o fixes some comments
3748 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3749 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3750 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3751 and documents the missing references header update
3755 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3756 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3759 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3760 Electronic Mail") by including:
3762 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3764 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3765 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3766 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3767 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3768 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3770 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3772 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3774 The auto-replied keyword:
3776 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3777 message by an automatic process,
3779 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3781 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3782 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3784 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3785 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3788 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3789 to the default Received: header definition.
3791 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3793 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3794 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3795 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3797 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3798 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3799 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3801 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3802 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3803 and treats the condition as false.
3805 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3807 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3808 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3809 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3810 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3811 not changing the active code.
3813 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3814 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3816 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3817 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3819 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3822 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3823 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3824 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3825 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3826 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3827 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3828 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3829 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3830 the text comparison.
3832 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3833 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3834 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3835 The same fix has been applied.
3841 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3842 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3845 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3846 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3848 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3850 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3851 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3852 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3853 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3854 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3856 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3857 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3858 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3859 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3862 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3870 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3871 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3873 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3875 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3877 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3878 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3879 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3881 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3882 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3883 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3885 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3886 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3889 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3890 ${stat: expansion item.
3892 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3893 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3895 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3896 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3899 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3901 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3904 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3905 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3907 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3909 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3910 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3911 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3912 the end of the subprocess.
3914 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3915 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3916 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3917 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3918 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3920 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3922 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3924 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3925 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3927 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3929 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3931 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3932 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3935 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3937 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3938 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3939 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3941 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3942 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3944 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3945 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3947 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3948 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3950 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3951 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3953 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3954 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3955 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3956 contributed by a Radius user.
3958 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3959 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3961 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3962 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3964 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3967 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3968 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3971 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3972 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3973 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3974 header lines when this was not necessary.
3976 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3978 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3979 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3980 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3983 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3986 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3987 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3988 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3989 return code was incorrect.
3991 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3993 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3995 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3997 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3999 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4000 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4001 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4002 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4003 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4006 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4008 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4009 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4010 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4011 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4012 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4013 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4014 which is clearly wrong.
4016 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4018 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4019 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4020 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4023 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4024 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4026 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4028 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4029 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4031 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4032 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4034 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4035 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4037 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4038 recipients, not senders.
4040 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4041 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4043 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4045 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4047 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4048 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4049 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4050 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4052 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4054 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4055 clock is set back in time.
4057 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4058 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4060 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4061 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4063 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4064 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4067 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4068 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4071 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4074 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4076 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4077 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4078 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4080 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4081 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4082 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4083 helo verification defer as a failure.
4085 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4086 actual error message.
4092 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4094 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4095 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4096 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4097 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4099 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4101 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4102 can still be requested.
4104 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4105 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4106 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4107 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4109 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4110 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4111 circumstances, but probably never did.
4113 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4114 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4115 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4118 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4120 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4121 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4123 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4125 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4127 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4128 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4129 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4130 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4131 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4132 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4134 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4135 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4136 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4137 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4138 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4139 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4141 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4142 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4144 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4145 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4147 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4148 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4150 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4152 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4154 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4156 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4158 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4160 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4162 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4164 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4165 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4166 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4168 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4169 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4170 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4171 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4173 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4174 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4175 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4177 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4178 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4179 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4180 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4182 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4183 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4186 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4187 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4188 should work with maildirs and everything.
4190 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4191 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4193 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4196 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4197 function for BDB 4.3.
4199 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4201 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4202 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4205 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4206 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4207 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4208 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4209 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4210 formatting function string_vformat().
4212 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4213 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4214 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4215 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4216 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4217 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4218 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4219 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4221 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4222 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4225 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4226 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4228 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4229 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4230 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4231 test. It is now used for both.
4233 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4234 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4235 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4236 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4237 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4238 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4240 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4241 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4242 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4245 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4246 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4247 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4249 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4250 experimental DomainKeys support:
4252 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4253 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4254 the control was given.
4256 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4258 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4260 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4262 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4263 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4264 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4267 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4268 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4269 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4270 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4271 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4272 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4275 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4276 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4277 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4278 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4279 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4280 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4282 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4283 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4284 do -d+all out of habit.
4286 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4287 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4290 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4291 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4292 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4293 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4294 record types that Exim uses.
4296 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4297 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4298 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4299 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4300 non-existent file that was broken.
4302 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4303 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4305 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4306 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4307 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4309 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4311 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4312 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4313 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4314 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4315 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4318 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4319 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4320 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4321 at a slight CPU cost.
4323 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4324 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4326 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4329 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4331 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4332 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4338 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4339 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4341 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4343 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4345 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4346 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4348 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4349 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4350 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4351 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4352 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4353 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4356 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4357 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4358 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4359 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4362 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4363 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4364 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4365 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4366 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4367 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4368 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4371 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4372 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4374 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4375 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4376 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4377 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4378 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4379 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4381 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4382 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4383 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4384 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4386 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4389 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4390 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4392 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4393 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4394 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4395 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4398 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4400 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4401 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4403 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4404 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4405 to what was transported.)
4407 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4409 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4410 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4411 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4412 spamd_address settings.
4414 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4415 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4416 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4417 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4418 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4420 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4422 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4423 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4424 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4425 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4426 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4428 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4429 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4431 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4432 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4433 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4434 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4435 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4436 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4437 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4440 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4441 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4442 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4443 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4444 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4445 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4446 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4449 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4451 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4452 driver and ACL definitions.
4454 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4455 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4457 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4458 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4459 understands it better than I do:
4461 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4462 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4464 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4465 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4466 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4467 => three warnings about OTP not working
4468 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4470 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4471 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4472 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4473 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4475 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4476 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4478 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4479 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4480 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4482 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4483 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4486 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4487 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4490 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4491 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4492 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4494 warn !verify = sender
4495 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4497 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4498 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4500 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4502 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4503 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4505 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4506 nomenclature these days.)
4508 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4509 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4511 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4512 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4513 . First host does not offer TLS;
4514 . First host accepts first address;
4515 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4516 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4517 . Second host accepts second address.
4518 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4519 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4522 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4523 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4524 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4525 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4526 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4528 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4529 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4531 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4532 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4534 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4535 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4536 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4538 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4539 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4542 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4544 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4545 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4546 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4547 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4548 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4549 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4550 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4552 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4553 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4554 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4555 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4556 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4558 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4559 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4562 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4563 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4564 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4565 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4566 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4567 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4569 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4571 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4572 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4573 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4574 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4575 printable escape sequences.
4577 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4578 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4581 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4582 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4585 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4586 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4587 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4588 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4589 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4591 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4592 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4593 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4595 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4597 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4598 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4601 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4602 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4603 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4604 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4605 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4606 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4607 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4608 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4609 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4612 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4613 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4614 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4615 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4619 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4620 ----------------------------------------
4622 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4623 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4624 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4625 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4626 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4627 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4630 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4631 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4632 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4633 historical information.
4639 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4641 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4642 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4644 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4645 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4648 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4649 filter fails to execute.
4651 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4652 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4653 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4654 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4655 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4657 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4659 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4660 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4661 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4662 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4664 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4665 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4666 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4667 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4668 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4670 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4672 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4674 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4675 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4676 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4677 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4679 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4680 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4681 sender verification.
4683 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4684 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4686 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4688 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4691 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4692 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4694 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4695 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4697 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4698 information about exactly what failed.
4700 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4702 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4703 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4704 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4706 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4707 It is now set to "smtps".
4709 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4710 ignore_target_hosts.
4712 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4713 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4714 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4715 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4718 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4719 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4720 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4722 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4723 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4724 wake it up if nothing else does.
4726 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4727 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4728 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4731 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4732 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4734 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4736 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4737 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4738 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4739 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4740 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4741 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4742 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4743 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4745 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4746 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4747 than one IP address.
4749 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4750 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4751 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4752 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4754 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4755 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4756 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4757 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4758 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4761 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4762 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4763 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4764 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4766 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4767 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4770 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4771 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4772 $sender_host_address.
4774 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4775 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4776 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4777 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4778 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4781 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4783 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4784 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4786 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4787 just the host names, not the priorities.
4789 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4790 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4791 controlled by a keyword.
4793 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4794 multiple records are returned.
4796 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4797 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4800 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4802 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4803 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4805 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4806 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4807 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4809 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4811 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4813 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4815 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4816 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4817 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4818 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4819 because the tests only now provoked it.
4821 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4822 (this can affect the format of dates).
4824 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4825 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4826 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4827 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4829 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4831 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4832 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4833 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4834 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4836 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4837 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4838 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4840 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4843 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4844 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4845 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4846 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4847 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4848 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4851 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4852 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4853 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4856 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4857 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4858 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4860 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4861 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4862 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4863 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4864 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4865 so I produce this patch..."
4867 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4868 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4871 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4872 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4873 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4874 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4877 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4879 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4880 long debug lines gets shown.
4882 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4883 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4885 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4887 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4888 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4889 of $primary_hostname.
4891 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4892 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4893 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4894 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4895 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4896 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4897 by change 4.50/55 above.
4899 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4900 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4901 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4902 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4903 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4904 running as the user.
4907 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4908 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4909 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4912 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4913 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4915 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4916 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4917 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4918 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4919 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4921 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4922 This has been fixed.
4924 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4925 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4926 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4927 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4930 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4932 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4933 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4934 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4935 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4937 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4938 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4940 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4941 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4942 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4944 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4945 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4946 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4949 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4950 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4951 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4953 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4954 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4955 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4956 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4958 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4959 during host lookups.
4961 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4962 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4964 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4966 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4967 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4968 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4969 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4970 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4973 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4974 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4976 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4977 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4978 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4980 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4982 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4983 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4984 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4985 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4986 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4987 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4990 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4991 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4992 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4993 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4994 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4996 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4999 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5001 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5002 "vacation" handling.
5004 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5005 OS variants using glibc.
5007 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5010 ----------------------------------------------------
5011 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5012 ----------------------------------------------------
5018 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5019 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5022 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5023 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5026 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5027 filter fails to execute.
5029 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5030 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5031 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5032 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5033 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5035 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5036 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5037 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5038 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5040 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5041 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5042 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5043 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5044 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5046 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5048 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5049 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5050 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5051 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5053 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5054 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5055 sender verification.
5057 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5058 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5060 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5061 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5063 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5064 ignore_target_hosts.
5066 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5067 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5068 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5069 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5072 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5073 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5074 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5076 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5077 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5078 wake it up if nothing else does.
5080 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5081 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5082 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5085 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5086 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5088 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5090 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5091 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5094 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5095 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5098 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5099 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5100 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5101 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5102 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5105 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5106 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5109 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5110 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5111 $sender_host_address.
5113 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5115 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5116 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5117 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5119 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5122 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5123 (this can affect the format of dates).
5125 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5126 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5127 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5128 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5130 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5131 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5132 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5134 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5135 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5136 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5137 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5139 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5140 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5141 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5143 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5146 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5147 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5148 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5149 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5150 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5151 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5154 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5155 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5156 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5157 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5160 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5161 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5162 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5163 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5164 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5165 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5166 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5168 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5169 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5170 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5171 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5172 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5173 running as the user.
5176 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5177 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5178 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5181 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5182 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5183 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5184 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5185 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5187 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5188 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5189 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5190 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5193 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5194 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5195 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5196 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5197 because the tests only now provoked it.
5203 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5204 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5205 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5206 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5207 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5208 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5209 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5211 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5212 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5215 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5217 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5219 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5220 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5223 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5224 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5225 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5226 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5227 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5229 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5230 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5232 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5234 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5236 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5239 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5240 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5242 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5243 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5244 affecting debugging statements).
5246 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5248 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5249 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5250 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5251 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5252 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5253 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5254 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5255 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5256 after the received time, and all would be well.
5258 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5259 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5260 condition in an expansion string.
5262 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5264 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5265 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5266 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5267 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5268 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5269 job under whatever limits there are.
5271 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5273 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5276 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5277 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5278 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5279 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5282 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5283 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5284 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5285 binary data in such strings.
5287 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5289 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5290 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5291 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5292 failure, which is pointless.
5294 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5296 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5298 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5299 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5300 Sender: header lines.
5302 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5303 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5304 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5306 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5307 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5308 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5309 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5310 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5313 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5314 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5315 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5316 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5317 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5319 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5320 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5321 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5324 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5325 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5327 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5328 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5330 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5332 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5334 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5336 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5339 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5341 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5343 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5344 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5345 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5346 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5348 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5349 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5355 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5356 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5357 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5359 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5360 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5361 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5362 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5363 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5364 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5366 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5367 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5368 verification failure".
5370 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5371 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5372 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5373 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5375 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5376 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5377 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5378 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5379 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5380 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5381 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5382 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5383 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5384 treated as a timeout.
5386 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5387 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5388 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5389 not set for Exim filters).
5391 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5392 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5393 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5395 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5397 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5398 try to make them clearer.
5400 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5401 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5403 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5405 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5407 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5408 only the Cygwin environment.
5410 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5411 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5412 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5413 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5414 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5416 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5417 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5418 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5419 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5420 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5421 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5422 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5424 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5425 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5427 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5429 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5430 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5431 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5433 To: susanne@some.where
5435 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5436 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5437 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5438 of addresses in From: header lines).
5440 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5441 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5442 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5444 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5445 treated as non-personal.
5447 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5448 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5450 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5452 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5454 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5455 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5456 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5458 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5459 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5461 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5462 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5463 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5464 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5465 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5466 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5468 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5469 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5470 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5471 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5472 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5473 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5474 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5475 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5477 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5479 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5480 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5482 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5483 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5484 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5486 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5487 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5489 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5490 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5491 rather than long int.
5493 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5495 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5501 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5502 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5503 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5504 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5505 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5506 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5512 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5513 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5515 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5516 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5517 socklen_t is defined.
5519 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5522 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5525 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5526 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5527 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5528 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5529 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5531 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5532 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5533 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5534 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5536 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5537 of flapping under certain conditions.
5539 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5540 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5541 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5543 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5545 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5547 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5548 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5549 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5550 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5552 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5553 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5554 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5555 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5556 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5557 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5558 preserved with the message after it was received.
5560 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5561 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5562 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5563 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5564 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5565 test suite worked just fine.
5567 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5568 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5569 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5571 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5572 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5575 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5576 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5577 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5578 does not fully solve it.
5580 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5581 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5582 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5583 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5584 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5586 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5587 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5588 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5590 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5591 string, for example:
5593 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5595 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5596 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5597 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5598 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5599 the routers could not see them.
5601 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5602 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5604 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5605 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5608 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5609 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5610 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5611 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5612 that needed quoting.
5614 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5615 was not being matched caselessly.
5617 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5620 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5621 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5622 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5623 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5624 when use_sender is false.
5626 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5628 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5630 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5632 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5633 the configuration file.
5635 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5636 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5638 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5640 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5641 bytes in the message body.
5643 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5644 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5647 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5649 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5651 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5652 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5653 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5654 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5661 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5662 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5664 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5665 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5666 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5667 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5668 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5670 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5671 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5673 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5674 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5675 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5677 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5678 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5679 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5681 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5684 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5685 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5686 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5687 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5688 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5689 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5690 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5696 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5697 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5698 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5699 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5700 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5701 default (and expected) setting.
5703 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5704 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5705 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5706 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5708 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5709 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5711 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5714 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5715 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5716 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5717 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5718 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5719 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5721 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5722 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5723 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5725 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5726 part (NOT match_host).
5728 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5730 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5731 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5732 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5733 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5734 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5735 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5736 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5737 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5738 the same named file.
5740 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5741 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5744 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5745 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5746 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5747 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5750 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5751 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5752 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5754 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5756 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5758 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5760 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5761 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5763 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5764 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5765 before starting the TLS session.
5767 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5769 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5770 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5772 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5773 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5774 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5775 colon in the middle).
5781 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5782 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5783 multiple configurations are in use.
5785 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5786 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5787 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5788 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5789 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5790 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5792 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5793 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5795 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5796 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5797 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5799 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5800 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5803 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5804 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5806 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5808 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5809 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5811 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5819 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5820 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5821 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5822 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5823 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5825 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5828 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5829 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5830 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5831 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5832 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5833 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5835 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5836 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5837 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5838 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5839 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5840 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5841 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5844 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5845 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5846 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5847 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5848 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5850 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5852 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5853 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5854 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5856 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5858 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5859 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5860 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5863 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5864 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5866 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5867 Three changes have been made:
5869 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5870 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5871 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5872 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5873 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5875 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5878 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5879 the modified behaviour.
5885 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5888 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5889 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5891 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5892 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5893 try to track down a specific problem.
5895 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5896 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5897 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5899 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5902 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5903 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5904 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5905 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5906 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5907 some earlier ones do not.
5909 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5911 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5912 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5913 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5914 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5915 address literals are enabled, of course).
5917 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5919 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5920 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5921 by a command such as
5925 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5927 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5929 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5930 remained set. It is now erased.
5932 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5933 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5935 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5936 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5937 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5938 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5939 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5940 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5941 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5942 appropriate error code.
5944 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5945 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5946 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5947 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5948 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5949 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5951 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5952 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5953 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5955 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5956 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5957 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5958 terminate the header.
5960 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5961 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5962 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5964 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5965 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5966 (4.30/29). In particular:
5968 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5971 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5972 to write a maildirsize file.
5974 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5975 the transport, the new value overrides.
5977 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5980 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5981 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5982 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5985 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5986 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5987 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5990 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5991 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5992 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5994 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5995 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5998 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5999 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6000 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6002 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6004 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6006 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6008 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6009 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6012 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6013 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6014 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6015 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6016 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6017 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6018 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6021 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6022 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6023 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6024 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6025 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6028 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6029 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6030 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6031 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6032 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6033 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6034 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6035 cached value only when the same options are set.
6037 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6039 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6040 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6041 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6042 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6043 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6045 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6046 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6047 it is clearly obsolete.
6049 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6052 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6053 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6054 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6057 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6058 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6059 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6060 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6061 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6063 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6064 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6065 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6066 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6068 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6070 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6072 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6073 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6076 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6077 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6078 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6079 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6080 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6081 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6084 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6085 with the -f command-line option.
6087 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6088 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6089 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6090 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6091 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6092 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6094 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6095 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6098 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6099 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6100 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6101 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6102 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6103 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6104 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6105 buffer is too small.
6107 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6108 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6110 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6111 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6112 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6113 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6114 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6115 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6116 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6117 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6118 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6120 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6121 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6122 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6124 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6125 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6128 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6129 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6130 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6131 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6132 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6134 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6135 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6136 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6137 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6140 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6142 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6144 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6145 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6147 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6148 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6149 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6151 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6152 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6153 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6154 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6155 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6157 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6158 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6159 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6160 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6161 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6162 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6163 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6165 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6166 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6167 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6168 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6169 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6170 the test of how many are available.
6172 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6173 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6174 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6175 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6176 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6177 new message is started.
6179 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6180 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6182 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6183 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6185 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6186 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6187 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6190 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6191 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6192 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6193 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6194 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6195 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6196 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6198 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6199 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6200 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6201 interpreted as octal.
6203 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6206 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6207 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6208 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6209 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6210 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6211 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6213 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6214 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6215 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6216 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6218 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6219 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6220 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6221 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6223 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6224 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6227 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6228 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6230 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6232 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6233 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6234 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6235 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6237 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6238 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6239 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6240 supplied", which is not helpful.
6242 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6243 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6244 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6246 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6247 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6248 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6249 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6250 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6251 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6252 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6253 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6255 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6256 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6257 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6258 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6259 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6261 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6262 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6263 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6264 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6265 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6266 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6268 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6269 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6270 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6272 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6274 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6275 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6276 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6279 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6281 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6282 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6283 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6284 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6285 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6286 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6287 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6288 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6290 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6291 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6292 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6293 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6294 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6296 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6299 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6300 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6301 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6302 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6303 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6304 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6305 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6306 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6307 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6313 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6314 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6315 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6317 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6320 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6321 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6322 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6324 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6325 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6326 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6327 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6328 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6329 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6331 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6332 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6333 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6334 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6335 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6336 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6337 the Exim test suite.
6339 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6340 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6341 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6342 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6344 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6345 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6346 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6347 specify it in this variable.
6349 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6350 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6351 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6352 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6354 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6355 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6356 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6357 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6359 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6360 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6361 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6362 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6363 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6365 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6367 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6370 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6371 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6372 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6373 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6374 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6376 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6377 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6379 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6380 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6381 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6382 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6383 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6385 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6386 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6388 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6389 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6390 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6392 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6393 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6395 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6396 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6398 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6399 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6400 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6402 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6403 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6405 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6406 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6407 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6408 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6410 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6412 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6413 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6414 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6415 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6417 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6419 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6420 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6422 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6424 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6425 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6426 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6427 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6428 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6429 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6431 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6433 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6434 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6437 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6439 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6440 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6442 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6443 550 Sender verify failed
6445 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6446 the final line of the response.
6448 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6449 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6450 all other user lookups.
6452 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6455 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6456 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6457 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6458 result into an int without checking.
6460 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6461 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6462 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6464 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6465 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6466 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6467 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6469 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6472 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6473 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6475 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6476 to the empty sender.
6478 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6479 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6480 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6481 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6482 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6483 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6484 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6487 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6488 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6489 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6490 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6493 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6494 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6496 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6499 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6500 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6502 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6504 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6505 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6508 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6509 as soon as it is encountered.
6511 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6513 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6516 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6517 recognizes a tab character.
6519 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6520 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6521 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6522 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6524 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6526 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6529 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6531 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6533 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6534 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6537 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6538 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6539 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6540 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6541 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6543 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6544 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6546 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6547 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6548 list (.included file names were always shown).
6550 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6551 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6552 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6555 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6556 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6558 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6560 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6562 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6564 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6565 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6566 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6567 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6568 failures to open the logs.
6570 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6571 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6572 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6573 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6574 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6575 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6576 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6582 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6583 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6584 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6587 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6588 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6589 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6591 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6592 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6593 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6595 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6596 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6597 causing some misleading effects.
6599 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6600 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6601 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6603 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6604 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6605 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6606 queue-runner function directly.
6612 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6615 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6616 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6617 was always written to the default place.
6619 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6620 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6621 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6623 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6625 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6627 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6628 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6629 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6631 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6632 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6635 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6636 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6637 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6639 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6640 command line option is disabled.
6642 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6643 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6645 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6647 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6649 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6650 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6652 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6654 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6655 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6656 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6657 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6658 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6659 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6661 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6662 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6665 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6666 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6668 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6669 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6671 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6672 received was valid base64.
6674 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6675 name of the variable that was being set.
6677 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6679 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6680 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6681 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6682 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6683 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6684 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6686 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6688 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6689 nor realm was specified.
6691 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6692 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6693 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6694 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6696 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6697 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6698 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6700 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6701 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6702 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6704 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6705 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6706 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6707 some systems use these upper case variants.
6709 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6710 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6711 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6712 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6714 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6716 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6717 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6719 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6720 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6723 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6725 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6726 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6727 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6728 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6730 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6733 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6734 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6735 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6737 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6738 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6740 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6741 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6742 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6743 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6745 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6746 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6747 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6749 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6751 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6752 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6753 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6754 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6757 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6758 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6759 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6761 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6763 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6764 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6766 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6767 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6769 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6770 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6771 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6772 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6773 when emails are that large.
6780 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6781 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6783 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6784 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6785 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6787 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6788 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6789 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6791 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6792 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6793 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6794 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6795 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6797 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6798 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6799 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6800 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6801 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6804 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6805 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6806 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6807 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6808 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6809 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6810 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6811 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6812 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6813 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6814 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6815 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6816 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6817 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6819 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6820 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6823 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6824 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6825 error should be diagnosed.
6827 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6828 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6829 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6830 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6831 appeared instead of "NULL".
6833 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6834 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6835 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6836 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6837 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6838 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6841 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6842 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6843 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6849 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6850 or receiver verification errors.
6852 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6855 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6856 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6857 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6858 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6860 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6861 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6862 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6863 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6864 shouldn't happen again.
6866 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6867 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6868 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6870 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6871 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6873 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6875 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6876 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6878 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6879 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6882 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6883 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6884 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6886 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6887 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6888 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6889 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6891 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6892 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6893 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6894 to define what should happen).
6896 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6897 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6898 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6900 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6902 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6904 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6905 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6907 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6908 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6909 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6910 structure in all cases.
6912 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6913 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6914 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6915 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6917 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6918 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6921 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6922 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6924 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6925 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6927 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6928 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6929 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6931 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6932 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6933 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6935 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6936 the book and for uniformity.
6938 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6940 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6941 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6942 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6943 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6944 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6945 non-existent command as the problem.
6947 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6948 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6949 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6951 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6953 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6954 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6955 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6957 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6958 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6959 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6960 timestamps using strftime().
6962 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6963 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6965 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6966 transport-time rewrites.
6968 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6969 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6970 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6971 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6973 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6974 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6976 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6977 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6978 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6979 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6982 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6983 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6984 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6985 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6986 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6987 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6988 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6990 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6991 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6992 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6993 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6994 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6996 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6997 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6998 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6999 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7000 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7001 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7002 remaining text gets split now.
7004 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7005 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7006 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7007 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7009 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7010 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7011 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7012 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7015 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7016 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7017 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7018 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7019 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7020 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7021 passed through if needed.
7023 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7024 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7025 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7026 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7027 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7028 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7030 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7031 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7032 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7033 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7034 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7036 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7037 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7038 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7039 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7040 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7042 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7043 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7046 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7047 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7048 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7049 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7050 mayhem of various kinds.
7052 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7053 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7054 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7055 the right test for positive values.
7057 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7058 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7059 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7060 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7061 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7062 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7063 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7064 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7065 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7066 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7069 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7072 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7073 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7076 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7077 the existing equality matching.
7079 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7080 dealing with inode numbers.
7082 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7083 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7084 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7086 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7087 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7088 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7089 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7092 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7093 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7094 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7095 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7096 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7097 relay addresses has also been removed.
7099 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7101 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7102 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7103 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7105 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7106 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7107 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7108 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7109 processing applies to CR:
7111 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7112 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7114 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7115 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7116 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7117 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7119 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7120 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7121 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7123 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7124 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7125 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7126 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7127 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7128 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7131 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7134 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7135 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7136 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7137 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7140 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7142 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7144 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7146 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7147 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7148 not considered personal.
7150 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7152 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7154 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7156 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7157 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7158 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7159 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7160 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7161 header lines, and spool format errors.
7163 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7164 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7165 for more flexibility.
7167 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7168 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7169 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7171 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7174 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7175 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7176 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7177 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7178 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7179 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7180 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7181 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7182 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7184 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7185 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7186 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7187 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7188 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7189 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7190 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7192 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7193 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7194 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7196 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7197 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7198 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7199 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7200 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7201 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7202 instead of killing the process with assert().
7204 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7205 than Unicode encoding.
7207 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7208 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7209 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7210 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7212 77. Added process_log_path.
7214 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7215 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7217 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7218 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7220 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7221 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7222 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7224 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7225 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7226 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7227 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7228 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7231 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7232 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7235 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7236 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7237 they will be used during message reception.
7243 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.