1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique messmage IDs) from
9 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
10 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
13 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
14 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
16 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
17 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
18 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
19 not be modified by local-scan code.
21 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
22 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
24 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
25 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
28 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
29 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
31 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
32 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
35 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
36 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
37 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
39 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
40 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
41 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
43 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
44 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
45 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
46 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
47 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
48 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
49 Assorted crashes happen.
55 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
56 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
57 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
59 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
60 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
61 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
62 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
64 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
65 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
66 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
67 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
68 so could be handling tainted values.
70 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
71 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
72 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
74 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
75 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
76 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
79 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
80 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
81 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
82 to align better with RFC 6125.
84 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
85 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
86 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
87 by adding a release action in that path.
89 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
90 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
91 dynamically-created buffers.
93 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
94 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
95 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
96 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
98 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
99 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
100 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
101 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
103 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
104 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
105 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
107 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
108 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
109 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
110 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
112 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
113 excluded, not matching the documentation.
115 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
116 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
118 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
119 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
120 this was a coding error.
122 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
123 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
124 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
125 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
126 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
127 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
128 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
130 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
131 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
132 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
133 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
135 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
136 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
137 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
138 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
139 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
141 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
142 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
145 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
146 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
147 domain-parking registrar.
149 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
150 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
151 after removing the newline.
153 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
154 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
155 option set, which was previously used.
157 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
160 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
161 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
162 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
163 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
165 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
166 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
167 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
168 exim.dev.20160529.3).
170 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
171 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
172 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
174 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
175 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
176 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
179 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
180 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
181 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
183 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
184 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
185 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
186 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
189 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
190 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
191 there, handle PRX and TFO.
193 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
194 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
195 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
196 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
197 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
199 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
200 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
201 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
202 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
205 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
206 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
208 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
211 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
212 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
213 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
214 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
215 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
217 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
219 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
220 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
221 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
222 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
223 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
224 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
226 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
227 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
229 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
230 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
231 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
233 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
234 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
237 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
238 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
239 of a new variable: $auth4.
241 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
242 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
243 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
244 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
245 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
247 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
248 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
249 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
250 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
252 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
253 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
254 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
256 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
257 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
258 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
259 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
262 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
263 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
264 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
267 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
268 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
269 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
270 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
272 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
273 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
275 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
276 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
277 looked as if if might be one.
279 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
280 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
281 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
282 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
283 messages can show the proxy information.
285 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
286 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
287 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
288 "queue_time_exclusive".
290 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
291 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
292 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
294 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
295 making it unusable in complex expressions.
297 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
298 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
301 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
303 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
305 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
307 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
308 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
309 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
310 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
312 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
313 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
315 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
316 better. Reported by Qualys.
318 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
319 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
322 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
324 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
327 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
329 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
330 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
331 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
332 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
334 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
335 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
337 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
338 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
339 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
340 mode until after various protocol state checks.
341 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
343 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
345 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
346 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
348 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
351 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
352 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
353 executed child processes (if any).
355 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
358 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
359 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
360 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
361 been reported on other platforms.
363 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
365 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
366 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
367 Not supported on Solaris 10.
369 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
370 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
371 since fakereject was originally introduced.
373 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
374 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
376 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
377 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
378 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
381 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
382 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
383 which only permit IP addresses.
389 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
390 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
391 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
393 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
395 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
396 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
399 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
400 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
401 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
403 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
405 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
407 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
408 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
409 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
411 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
412 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
413 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
415 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
416 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
418 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
419 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
422 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
423 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
424 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
425 should both provide the file and set the option.
426 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
428 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
429 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
431 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
432 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
433 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
434 Authentication-Results: header.
436 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
437 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
438 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
439 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
441 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
442 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
443 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
444 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
445 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
446 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
447 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
449 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
450 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
451 copies while it is still usable.
453 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
454 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
455 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
457 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
458 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
460 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
461 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
462 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
463 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
465 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
466 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
467 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
470 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
471 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
472 - the pipe transport command
473 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
474 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
476 - paths used by single-key lookups
477 Previously this was permitted.
479 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
480 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
481 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
482 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
484 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
485 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
486 support larger malloc requests.
488 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
489 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
490 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
491 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
493 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
494 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
495 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
496 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
499 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
500 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
501 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
502 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
503 data being length-specified.
505 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
506 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
507 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
508 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
510 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
511 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
512 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
513 not being properly tracked.
515 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
516 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
517 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
518 minute could be seen.
520 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
521 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
522 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
524 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
525 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
527 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
528 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
531 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
533 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
534 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
536 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
537 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
538 filesystem as sufficient validation.
540 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
541 argument is supplied.
543 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
544 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
545 access under Exim's current working directory.
547 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
548 Previously no event was raised.
550 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
551 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
552 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
555 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
556 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
557 the size of the signature hash.
559 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
560 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
562 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
563 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
564 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
565 dropped between messages.
567 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
568 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
569 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
570 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
572 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
573 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
574 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
575 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
576 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
577 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
578 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
579 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
580 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
582 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
583 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
584 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
586 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
587 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
594 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
595 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
597 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
598 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
601 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
604 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
606 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
608 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
609 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
611 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
612 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
613 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
614 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
615 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
616 suitably configured).
618 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
619 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
621 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
622 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
625 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
626 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
628 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
629 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
630 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
631 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
634 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
635 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
636 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
638 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
641 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
642 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
644 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
645 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
646 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
647 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
650 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
651 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
652 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
653 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
656 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
657 shared (NFS) environment.
659 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
660 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
663 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
664 on some platforms for bit 31.
666 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
667 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
668 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
669 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
670 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
671 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
672 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
673 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
675 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
677 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
678 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
680 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
681 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
684 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
685 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
688 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
689 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
690 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
693 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
694 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
695 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
697 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
698 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
699 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
700 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
701 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
703 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
706 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
707 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
708 be requested on all coneections.
710 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
711 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
713 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
715 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
716 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
717 one for these; the option was ignored.
719 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
720 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
721 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
722 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
724 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
725 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
726 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
729 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
730 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
731 error ignored was made.
733 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
735 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
736 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
737 values, to catch one form of exploit.
739 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
740 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
741 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
743 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
744 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
747 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
748 them in our smtp response.
750 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
751 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
752 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
753 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
754 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
756 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
757 link count into consideration.
759 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
760 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
762 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
763 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
764 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
767 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
769 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
771 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
773 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
774 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
775 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
776 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
778 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
780 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
781 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
784 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
785 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
786 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
788 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
789 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
790 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
792 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
793 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
794 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
795 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
796 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
797 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
798 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
799 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
801 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
802 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
803 resulted in an indefinite loop.
805 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
806 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
807 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
813 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
814 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
816 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
817 non-signal-safe functions being used.
819 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
820 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
821 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
823 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
824 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
825 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
827 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
828 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
829 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
830 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
831 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
834 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
835 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
837 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
838 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
839 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
840 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
841 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
842 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
843 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
845 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
846 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
848 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
851 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
852 Previously this would segfault.
854 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
857 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
858 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
859 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
860 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
861 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
862 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
864 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
866 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
867 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
868 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
869 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
871 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
873 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
874 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
875 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
876 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
878 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
880 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
882 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
883 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
884 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
886 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
887 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
888 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
890 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
892 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
893 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
894 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
895 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
897 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
898 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
899 promised '?' replacement.
901 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
903 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
904 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
905 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
906 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
907 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
909 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
910 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
911 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
913 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
914 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
915 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
917 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
918 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
919 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
921 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
922 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
923 hope that is portable enough.
925 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
926 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
927 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
928 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
930 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
931 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
932 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
934 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
935 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
936 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
937 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
939 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
940 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
942 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
943 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
944 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
945 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
947 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
948 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
949 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
951 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
952 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
953 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
954 the previous G, M, k.
956 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
957 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
960 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
961 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
962 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
963 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
965 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
966 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
968 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
969 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
970 off past the nul-terimation.
972 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
973 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
974 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
975 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
976 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
978 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
980 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
981 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
982 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
985 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
986 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
988 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
989 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
990 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
992 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
993 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
994 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
996 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
997 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1003 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1004 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1005 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1006 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1007 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1008 be defined in redis_servers.
1010 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1011 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1013 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1014 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1015 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1016 extant use locations.
1018 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1019 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1021 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1022 Previously only the last row was returned.
1024 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1025 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1026 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1027 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1030 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1031 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1032 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1033 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1034 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1035 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1036 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1037 Main pool for expansions.
1038 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1039 active in the testsuite.
1040 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1042 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1043 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1044 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1045 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1048 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1049 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1052 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1053 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1054 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1056 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1057 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1058 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1060 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1061 rows affected is given instead).
1063 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1064 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1066 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1067 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1068 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1069 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1070 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1072 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1073 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1074 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1076 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1077 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1078 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1079 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1082 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1083 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1084 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1087 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1089 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1090 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1092 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1093 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1094 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1096 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1097 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1098 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1101 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1102 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1104 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1105 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1106 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1108 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1109 for the build is renamed.
1111 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1112 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1113 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1115 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1116 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1117 result replacing the original.
1119 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1120 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1121 and the resources needed to be freed.
1123 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1125 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1128 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1129 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1130 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1131 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1133 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1134 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1136 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1137 newer versions of the scanner.
1139 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1140 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1141 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1142 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1143 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1144 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1145 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1147 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1148 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1149 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1150 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1151 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1152 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1153 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1154 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1155 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1156 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1158 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1159 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1161 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1163 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1164 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1166 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1167 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1169 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1170 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1171 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1173 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1174 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1175 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1176 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1178 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1179 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1182 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1183 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1185 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1186 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1187 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1188 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1189 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1191 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1192 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1195 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1196 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1198 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1201 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1202 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1203 "bare" representation.
1205 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1206 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1207 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1208 corrupted the output.
1214 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1215 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1216 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1217 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1219 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1220 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1222 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1223 This permits better logging.
1225 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1226 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1227 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1228 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1229 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1230 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1232 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1233 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1236 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1237 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1238 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1240 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1241 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1243 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1244 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1245 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1246 client, there is no benefit for these.
1247 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1248 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1249 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1252 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1253 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1255 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1256 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1257 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1259 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1260 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1262 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1263 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1264 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1265 signature and again for transmission.
1267 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1268 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1269 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1271 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1272 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1273 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1274 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1275 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1276 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1277 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1279 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1280 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1281 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1282 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1284 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1285 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1286 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1287 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1288 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1289 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1292 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1293 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1294 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1295 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1298 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1299 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1300 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1301 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1304 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1305 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1308 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1309 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1310 banner-time rejection.
1312 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1315 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1316 is the name of a transport.
1319 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1321 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1322 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1324 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1325 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1326 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1329 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1330 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1331 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1332 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1334 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1335 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1336 initial verify call returned a defer.
1338 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1339 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1341 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1342 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1344 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1345 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1347 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1348 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1350 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1351 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1354 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1355 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1357 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1358 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1359 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1361 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1362 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1363 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1364 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1366 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1367 and confused the parent.
1369 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1370 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1372 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1375 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1376 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1377 out-of-order delivery.
1379 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1380 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1381 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1384 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1385 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1388 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1389 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1390 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1392 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1393 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1394 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1395 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1396 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1397 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1399 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1400 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1401 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1403 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1404 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1405 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1407 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1408 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1409 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1410 though a different problem.
1416 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1417 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1419 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1421 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1422 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1424 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1425 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1427 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1428 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1429 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1430 before acknowledging the chunk.
1432 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1433 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1434 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1436 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1437 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1438 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1441 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1442 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1443 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1445 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1446 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1448 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1449 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1450 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1451 body hash calculated value.
1453 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1454 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1455 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1457 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1459 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1460 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1462 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1463 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1464 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1466 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1467 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1468 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1469 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1470 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1471 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1473 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1474 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1475 past that check, despite the cost.
1477 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1478 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1479 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1481 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1482 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1483 TLS library to consume.
1485 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1487 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1489 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1490 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1491 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1492 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1493 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1494 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1495 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1497 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1499 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1501 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1502 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1503 should be warning-free.
1505 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1507 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1508 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1510 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1511 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1512 general solution here.
1514 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1515 already-broken messages in the queue.
1517 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1519 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1525 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1526 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1528 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1529 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1530 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1532 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1533 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1534 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1535 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1536 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1537 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1538 if one fails this test.
1539 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1540 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1542 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1543 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1545 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1546 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1548 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1549 in rewrites and routers.
1551 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1552 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1554 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1555 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1557 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1559 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1562 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1563 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1564 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1565 connection after a verify cache hit.
1566 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1568 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1569 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1571 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1572 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1573 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1574 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1575 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1577 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1578 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1580 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1581 Previously they were not counted.
1583 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1584 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1585 that needed the lookup.
1587 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1588 distinguished as "(=".
1590 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1591 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1593 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1595 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1596 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1598 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1599 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1601 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1602 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1605 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1606 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1607 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1608 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1610 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1612 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1613 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1614 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1616 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1617 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1618 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1621 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1622 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1623 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1626 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1627 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1628 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1630 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1631 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1634 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1636 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1637 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1639 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1640 are not in the system include path.
1642 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1643 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1644 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1645 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1647 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1648 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1649 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1651 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1653 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1654 an incoming connection.
1656 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1659 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1660 fallback to "prime256v1".
1662 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1663 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1669 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1670 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1671 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1672 client dropping the TLS connection.
1674 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1675 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1677 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1678 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1679 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1680 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1683 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1684 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1685 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1686 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1687 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1688 check on the next write.
1690 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1691 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1692 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1693 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1694 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1696 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1697 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1699 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1700 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1701 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1703 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1704 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1705 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1706 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1708 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1709 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1711 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1712 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1714 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1715 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1716 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1719 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1721 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1723 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1725 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1726 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1728 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1729 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1731 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1733 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1734 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1736 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1738 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1739 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1741 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1743 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1744 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1745 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1746 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1747 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1748 they will retry in-clear.
1749 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1750 at installation time.
1752 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1753 with the $config_file variable.
1755 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1756 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1757 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1758 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1759 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1761 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1762 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1763 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1764 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1765 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1767 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1769 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1770 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1771 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1772 list order is no longer honoured.
1774 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1775 for DKIM processing.
1777 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1778 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1780 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1781 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1782 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1783 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1785 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1786 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1788 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1789 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1791 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1792 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1794 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1796 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1797 cached by the daemon.
1799 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1800 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1802 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1803 keys are given for lookup.
1805 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1806 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1807 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1808 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1810 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1811 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1812 server-side so match that on older versions.
1814 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1815 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1816 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1818 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1819 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1821 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1822 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1823 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1824 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1825 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1826 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1827 initial truncated version.
1829 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1831 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1833 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1834 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1836 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1838 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1840 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1841 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1844 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1845 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1848 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1849 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1851 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1852 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1855 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1856 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1857 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1859 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1860 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1861 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1862 extraction. Accept either.
1868 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1871 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1873 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1876 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1877 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1878 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1879 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1881 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1882 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1883 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1885 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1886 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1887 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1890 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1893 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1894 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1895 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1896 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1897 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1899 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1900 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1901 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1903 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1905 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1906 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1908 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1909 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1911 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1914 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1915 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1917 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1918 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1919 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1921 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1922 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1923 specify a port-range.
1925 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1926 timeout value per server.
1928 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1929 now have the list separator specified.
1931 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1934 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1937 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1939 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1940 rather than the verbs used.
1942 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1943 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1945 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1947 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1948 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1950 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1951 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1953 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1954 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1956 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1958 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1960 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1961 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1962 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1963 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1965 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1967 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1968 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1970 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1971 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1973 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1975 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1977 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1979 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1980 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1982 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1983 added for tls authenticator.
1985 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1991 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1992 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1993 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1994 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1995 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1996 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1997 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1999 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2000 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2001 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2002 function when detected.
2004 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2005 cause callback expansion.
2007 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2008 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2009 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2010 instead of bool when processing it.
2012 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2013 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2015 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2017 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2019 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2021 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2022 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2024 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2025 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2026 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2027 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2028 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2029 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2031 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2032 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2035 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2036 version 3.3.6 or later.
2038 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2039 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2040 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2041 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2042 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2043 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2046 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2047 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2049 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2050 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2051 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2054 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2055 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2056 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2058 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2059 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2061 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2062 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2065 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2067 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2068 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2070 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2071 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2074 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2076 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2079 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2080 output list separator was used.
2085 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2086 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2089 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2090 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2092 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2094 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2095 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2101 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2103 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2104 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2105 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2106 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2107 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2108 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2110 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2111 utilities have not been installed.
2113 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2114 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2116 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2117 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2119 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2120 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2121 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2122 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2124 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2126 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2127 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2129 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2132 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2134 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2135 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2136 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2138 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2139 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2140 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2141 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2142 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2143 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2145 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2147 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2148 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2150 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2153 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2155 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2157 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2158 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2160 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2161 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2163 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2165 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2167 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2168 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2170 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2171 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2172 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2174 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2175 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2176 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2179 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2181 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2182 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2185 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2186 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2189 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2190 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2192 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2193 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2195 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2197 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2198 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2199 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2201 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2202 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2204 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2205 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2208 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2209 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2210 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2212 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2214 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2215 Christian Aistleitner.
2217 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2219 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2220 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2222 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2223 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2225 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2226 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2228 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2229 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2231 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2232 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2234 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2235 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2236 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2238 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2240 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2241 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2244 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2246 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2247 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2254 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2256 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2257 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2259 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2262 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2263 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2266 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2268 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2269 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2270 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2271 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2272 using channel bindings instead).
2274 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2275 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2276 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2277 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2278 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2281 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2283 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2285 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2286 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2288 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2289 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2290 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2292 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2294 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2296 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2297 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2299 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2301 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2303 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2305 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2306 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2308 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2310 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2311 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2314 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2315 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2317 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2318 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2321 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2323 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2325 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2326 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2328 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2331 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2332 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2334 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2335 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2337 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2339 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2341 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2344 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2347 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2349 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2350 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2351 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2352 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2354 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2356 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2357 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2358 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2359 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2362 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2363 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2364 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2366 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2367 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2368 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2369 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2371 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2372 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2373 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2374 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2375 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2376 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2377 delivery, as in LMTP.
2379 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2380 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2382 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2384 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2388 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2389 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2390 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2391 username as equal to the username.
2393 This change corrects that bug.
2395 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2396 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2397 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2399 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2401 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2402 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2403 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2404 NULL dereference and crash.
2406 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2408 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2409 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2410 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2412 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2414 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2415 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2416 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2417 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2418 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2419 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2420 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2421 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2422 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2423 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2424 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2426 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2427 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2429 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2430 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2433 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2434 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2435 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2436 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2437 an empty string is now equivalent.
2439 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2440 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2441 not performing validation itself.
2443 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2444 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2446 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2449 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2451 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2452 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2453 other false fix of the same issue.
2454 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2457 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2458 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2460 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2461 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2462 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2464 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2465 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2466 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2468 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2470 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2472 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2473 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2475 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2478 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2479 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2480 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2481 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2482 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2484 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2485 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2487 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2488 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2491 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2492 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2493 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2494 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2496 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2498 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2499 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2500 from multiple comments on this bug.
2502 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2504 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2505 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2508 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2509 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2511 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2512 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2518 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2520 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2526 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2527 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2528 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2530 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2532 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2535 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2537 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2539 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2541 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2542 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2544 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2545 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2547 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2548 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2550 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2551 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2552 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2554 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2556 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2557 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2559 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2561 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2563 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2564 non-compliant senders.
2565 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2567 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2568 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2569 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2571 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2572 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2573 in spool file corruption.
2575 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2576 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2577 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2580 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2581 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2582 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2584 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2585 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2587 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2589 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2591 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2593 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2594 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2595 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2597 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2598 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2599 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2600 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2602 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2603 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2605 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2606 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2607 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2608 resolver implementation change.
2610 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2611 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2613 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2615 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2617 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2618 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2620 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2621 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2623 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2624 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2626 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2627 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2628 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2629 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2630 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2632 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2634 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2635 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2636 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2638 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2640 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2641 read-only, out of scope).
2642 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2644 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2645 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2646 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2647 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2649 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2651 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2652 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2653 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2654 real issues in debug logging.
2656 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2657 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2659 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2660 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2661 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2663 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2664 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2665 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2668 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2669 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2671 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2672 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2673 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2674 needs to override this, it can.
2676 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2677 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2678 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2680 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2681 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2682 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2683 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2685 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2691 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2692 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2694 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2696 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2699 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2700 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2702 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2703 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2704 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2706 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2707 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2708 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2709 not safe for signals.
2711 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2712 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2713 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2714 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2717 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2719 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2720 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2721 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2722 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2723 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2725 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2726 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2727 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2728 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2729 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2730 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2732 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2733 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2734 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2735 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2737 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2738 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2739 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2740 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2742 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2743 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2744 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2745 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2746 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2747 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2748 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2749 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2750 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2752 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2753 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2754 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2755 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2757 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2758 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2759 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2760 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2761 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2762 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2763 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2764 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2765 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2766 details in the main documentation.
2768 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2770 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2772 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2773 repository when doing development or release builds.
2775 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2776 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2778 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2779 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2782 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2784 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2785 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2787 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2788 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2790 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2791 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2793 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2794 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2796 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2797 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2799 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2801 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2804 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2805 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2806 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2808 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2810 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2812 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2813 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2819 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2821 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2822 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2824 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2826 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2828 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2831 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2832 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2834 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2835 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2837 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2838 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2840 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2843 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2844 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2846 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2847 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2848 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2849 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2851 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2852 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2858 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2861 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2862 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2863 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2865 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2866 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2868 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2869 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2870 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2872 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2873 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2875 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2876 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2878 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2879 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2881 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2882 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2884 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2885 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2887 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2890 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2891 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2893 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2894 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2896 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2897 SQL string expansion failure details.
2898 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2900 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2901 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2903 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2904 extern declarations in function scope.
2905 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2907 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2908 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2909 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2912 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2913 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2915 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2916 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2918 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2919 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2921 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2922 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2924 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2925 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2928 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2930 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2932 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2933 Patch by Simon Arlott
2935 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2936 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2942 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2943 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2945 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2946 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2948 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2950 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2951 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2952 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2954 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2955 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2956 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2958 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2959 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2960 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2961 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2963 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2964 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2965 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2966 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2968 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2969 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2970 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2973 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2976 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2977 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2978 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2979 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2980 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2986 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2987 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2988 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2990 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2991 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2993 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2995 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2997 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2999 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3001 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3003 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3004 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3005 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3006 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3008 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3009 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3010 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3011 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3012 more caution in buffer sizes.
3014 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3016 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3018 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3020 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3022 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3024 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3026 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3028 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3029 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3030 ignore trailing whitespace.
3032 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3034 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3037 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3038 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3040 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3041 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3042 Notification from John Horne.
3044 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3047 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3048 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3051 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3054 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3055 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3056 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3058 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3059 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3060 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3063 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3064 option (effectively making it always true).
3066 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3067 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3069 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3070 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3072 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3073 run-time user, instead of root.
3075 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3076 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3078 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3079 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3082 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3083 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3084 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3086 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3088 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3094 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3095 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3098 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3099 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3102 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3103 Patch from Alain Williams
3105 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3107 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3108 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3110 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3111 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3113 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3115 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3117 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3118 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3120 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3122 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3124 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3125 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3126 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3128 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3129 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3131 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3132 Patch by Simon Arlott
3134 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3135 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3141 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3143 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3145 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3147 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3149 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3155 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3156 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3158 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3159 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3162 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3163 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3164 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3166 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3167 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3169 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3170 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3171 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3172 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3174 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3175 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3176 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3178 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3180 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3182 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3183 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3185 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3187 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3188 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3189 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3190 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3192 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3193 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3195 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3197 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3199 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3200 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3202 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3203 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3205 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3206 that they are available at delivery time.
3208 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3210 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3211 incoming_port log selectors.
3213 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3214 setting expands to an empty string.
3216 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3217 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3219 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3220 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3222 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3223 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3225 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3226 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3228 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3229 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3231 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3232 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3234 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3236 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3237 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3239 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3240 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3242 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3244 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3245 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3247 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3249 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3251 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3254 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3255 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3257 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3258 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3260 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3261 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3263 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3264 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3266 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3267 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3269 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3270 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3272 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3273 plus update to original patch.
3275 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3277 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3278 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3280 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3282 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3284 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3286 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3288 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3289 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3291 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3292 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3294 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3295 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3297 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3298 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3300 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3302 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3304 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3306 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3312 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3313 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3314 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3316 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3317 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3318 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3319 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3320 build errors in sieve.c.
3322 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3323 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3324 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3326 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3328 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3330 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3332 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3338 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3340 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3341 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3342 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3343 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3344 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3345 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3346 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3347 for iplsearch lookups.
3349 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3350 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3351 previously such lookups could never work.
3353 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3354 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3355 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3357 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3360 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3361 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3362 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3363 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3364 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3365 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3367 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3368 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3370 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3371 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3372 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3373 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3374 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3375 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3377 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3380 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3382 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3383 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3386 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3387 by clients under certain conditions.
3389 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3390 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3392 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3394 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3395 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3397 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3399 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3401 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3403 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3404 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3406 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3408 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3409 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3411 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3413 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3415 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3416 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3417 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3418 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3420 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3421 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3422 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3424 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3425 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3427 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3429 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3431 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3433 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3434 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3435 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3441 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3442 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3445 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3446 issue a MAIL command.
3448 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3450 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3452 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3453 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3454 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3455 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3456 item. This has been fixed.
3458 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3459 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3461 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3462 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3464 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3465 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3466 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3468 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3470 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3471 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3472 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3473 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3474 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3476 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3477 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3478 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3480 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3481 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3482 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3483 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3485 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3487 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3489 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3490 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3491 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3492 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3493 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3495 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3497 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3498 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3499 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3502 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3504 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3506 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3508 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3510 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3512 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3513 no_callout_flush is set.
3515 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3516 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3517 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3520 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3522 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3523 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3524 other ACL rejections are.
3526 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3527 with slight modification.
3529 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3530 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3532 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3533 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3536 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3537 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3539 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3541 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3542 expansion side effects.
3544 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3545 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3546 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3549 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3550 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3551 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3553 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3554 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3555 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3556 were accidentally chopped off.
3558 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3559 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3560 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3561 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3562 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3563 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3564 pipelining has not been advertised.
3566 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3568 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3569 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3570 This has been fixed.
3572 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3573 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3574 reported on Solaris.
3576 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3577 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3578 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3579 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3580 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3581 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3582 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3584 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3587 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3589 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3591 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3592 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3593 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3594 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3595 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3596 criteria to be more general.
3598 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3599 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3600 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3601 host_all_ignored option.
3603 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3604 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3605 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3606 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3607 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3608 is what is supposed to happen).
3610 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3611 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3612 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3613 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3614 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3617 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3618 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3619 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3620 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3621 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3622 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3625 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3627 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3628 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3630 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3631 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3633 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3635 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3637 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3638 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3639 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3640 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3641 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3642 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3643 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3644 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3645 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3646 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3647 least in a lot of common cases.
3649 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3650 advertised in response to EHLO.
3656 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3657 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3659 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3660 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3662 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3663 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3664 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3666 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3667 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3668 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3669 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3670 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3676 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3677 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3680 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3681 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3682 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3684 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3685 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3686 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3687 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3688 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3689 rather than extend the field.
3695 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3696 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3697 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3698 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3701 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3702 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3703 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3705 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3706 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3707 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3709 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3710 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3711 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3714 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3715 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3716 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3717 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3718 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3719 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3720 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3721 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3722 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3723 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3724 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3726 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3729 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3730 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3731 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3732 ignores EPIPE as well.
3734 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3735 (quoted-printable decoding).
3737 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3738 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3740 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3742 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3744 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3746 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3747 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3749 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3752 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3753 miscellaneous code fixes
3755 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3758 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3759 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3760 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3761 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3762 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3763 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3764 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3765 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3767 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3768 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3769 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3770 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3772 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3773 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3774 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3775 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3776 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3777 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3778 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3779 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3780 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3782 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3785 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3786 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3787 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3788 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3789 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3790 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3791 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3792 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3794 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3795 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3798 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3799 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3800 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3801 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3802 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3803 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3804 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3805 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3806 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3807 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3808 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3809 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3810 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3812 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3813 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3814 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3815 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3816 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3817 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3818 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3820 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3821 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3822 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3823 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3824 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3825 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3826 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3827 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3828 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3829 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3831 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3832 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3833 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3834 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3835 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3837 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3838 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3839 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3840 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3841 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3842 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3843 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3845 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3846 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3847 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3848 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3849 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3850 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3853 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3854 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3855 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3858 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3859 if any retry times were supplied.
3861 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3862 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3863 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3865 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3867 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3869 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3870 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3871 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3872 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3873 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3874 before) are ignored.
3876 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3877 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3879 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3880 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3881 committing the later change.]
3883 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3884 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3885 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3886 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3887 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3888 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3889 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3890 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3891 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3893 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3894 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3895 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3896 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3897 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3898 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3899 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3900 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3901 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3903 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3904 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3905 hammering the server.
3907 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3908 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3910 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3912 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3913 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3914 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3916 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3917 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3918 one case where this was not true.
3920 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3921 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3922 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3923 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3926 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3927 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3928 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3929 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3930 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3931 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3932 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3933 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3934 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3937 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3938 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3939 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3940 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3942 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3943 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3945 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3946 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3947 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3949 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3951 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3953 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3955 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3956 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3957 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3958 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3960 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3961 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3963 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3964 be meaningful with "accept".
3966 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3967 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3969 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3970 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3971 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3973 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3974 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3975 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3976 there is data to show.
3977 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3979 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3980 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3981 as well as the number of messages.
3983 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3984 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3985 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3987 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3988 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3989 have a flag are now skipped.
3991 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3992 Added the -emptyok flag.
3994 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3995 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3997 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3998 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3999 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4001 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4004 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4005 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4007 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4009 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4010 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4012 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4014 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4015 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4016 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4017 contravention of the specifications.
4019 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4020 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4021 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4023 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4024 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4025 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4027 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4029 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4030 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4031 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4032 some point in the past.
4034 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4035 transport during callout processing was broken.
4037 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4038 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4040 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4041 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4043 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4044 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4046 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4052 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4053 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4055 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4056 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4057 there is data to show.
4058 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4060 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4061 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4063 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4064 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4066 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4067 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4069 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4070 submissions from trusted users.
4072 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4073 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4075 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4076 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4077 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4078 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4079 there is now a framework to start from.
4081 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4082 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4083 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4085 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4087 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4089 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4091 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4092 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4093 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4095 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4098 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4099 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4100 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4102 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4103 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4104 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4107 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4108 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4109 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4110 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4111 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4113 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4114 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4116 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4118 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4119 operations in malware.c.
4121 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4124 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4125 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4126 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4129 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4130 statements to "add_header".
4132 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4133 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4135 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4136 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4139 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4143 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4144 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4145 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4148 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4149 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4151 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4152 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4154 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4155 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4156 any possible encoding problems.
4158 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4159 but not after initializing Perl.
4161 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4162 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4163 apparently, which is not desirable.
4165 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4168 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4171 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4173 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4174 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4175 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4176 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4178 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4179 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4180 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4182 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4183 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4184 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4187 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4188 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4189 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4190 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4191 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4197 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4198 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4200 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4203 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4204 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4205 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4206 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4207 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4208 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4209 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4210 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4213 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4215 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4216 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4217 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4219 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4220 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4221 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4224 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4225 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4227 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4228 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4229 option (which defaults to 0600).
4231 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4233 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4234 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4235 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4236 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4237 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4238 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4239 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4241 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4247 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4248 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4249 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4250 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4251 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4252 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4255 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4256 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4258 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4260 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4261 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4262 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4263 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4264 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4267 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4268 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4270 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4271 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4272 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4273 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4274 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4276 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4277 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4278 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4279 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4281 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4282 be the same on different OS.
4284 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4287 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4288 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4290 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4293 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4294 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4295 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4296 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4297 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4298 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4301 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4302 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4303 when Exim was called.
4305 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4306 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4308 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4309 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4310 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4311 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4313 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4314 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4315 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4316 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4319 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4320 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4321 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4323 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4324 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4325 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4327 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4330 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4331 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4332 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4333 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4334 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4335 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4336 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4337 values from the SRV records were lost.
4339 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4340 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4341 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4343 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4344 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4345 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4347 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4348 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4349 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4350 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4351 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4352 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4353 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4354 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4355 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4356 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4358 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4359 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4360 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4362 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4363 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4365 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4366 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4367 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4368 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4371 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4372 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4373 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4375 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4376 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4377 PH/23 above applies.
4379 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4380 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4381 (for which there is an explicit test).
4383 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4385 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4386 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4387 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4388 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4389 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4391 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4392 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4393 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4394 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4396 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4397 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4398 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4400 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4402 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4404 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4405 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4406 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4408 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4409 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4410 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4411 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4412 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4414 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4415 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4416 the message gets confusing).
4418 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4419 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4420 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4421 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4423 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4424 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4425 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4426 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4429 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4430 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4431 the different processes.
4433 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4435 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4437 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4438 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4440 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4441 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4443 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4444 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4445 messages matching specified criteria.
4447 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4449 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4450 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4452 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4453 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4454 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4455 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4456 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4457 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4458 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4459 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4460 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4461 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4463 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4464 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4465 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4467 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4469 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4470 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4471 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4472 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4473 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4474 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4475 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4478 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4479 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4481 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4483 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4485 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4487 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4488 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4489 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4490 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4491 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4492 size of the count of files.
4494 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4496 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4499 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4500 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4501 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4502 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4504 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4505 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4506 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4508 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4509 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4510 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4511 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4512 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4514 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4515 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4517 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4518 will now be deprecated.
4520 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4522 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4523 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4524 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4526 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4527 with very large, slow to parse queues
4529 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4531 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4533 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4534 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4535 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4538 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4539 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4540 Sieve code now uses this.
4542 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4543 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4545 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4546 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4548 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4550 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4551 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4552 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4553 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4554 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4556 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4557 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4558 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4559 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4561 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4563 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4565 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4566 is preferred over IPv4.
4568 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4569 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4570 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4571 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4572 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4573 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4574 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4576 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4577 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4578 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4580 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4582 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4583 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4584 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4585 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4586 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4587 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4588 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4589 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4590 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4591 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4592 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4594 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4595 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4596 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4602 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4604 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4605 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4607 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4608 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4609 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4611 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4613 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4616 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4619 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4620 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4621 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4624 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4625 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4627 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4628 inside the third argument.
4630 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4631 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4634 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4635 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4637 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4638 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4640 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4642 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4643 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4646 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4648 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4649 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4650 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4651 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4652 identical. For example:
4654 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4656 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4657 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4658 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4660 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4661 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4662 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4663 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4665 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4666 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4667 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4670 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4672 o fixes some comments
4673 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4674 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4675 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4676 and documents the missing references header update
4680 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4681 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4684 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4685 Electronic Mail") by including:
4687 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4689 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4690 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4691 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4692 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4693 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4695 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4697 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4699 The auto-replied keyword:
4701 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4702 message by an automatic process,
4704 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4706 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4707 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4709 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4710 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4713 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4714 to the default Received: header definition.
4716 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4718 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4719 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4720 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4722 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4723 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4724 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4726 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4727 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4728 and treats the condition as false.
4730 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4732 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4733 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4734 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4735 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4736 not changing the active code.
4738 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4739 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4741 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4742 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4744 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4747 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4748 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4749 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4750 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4751 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4752 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4753 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4754 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4755 the text comparison.
4757 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4758 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4759 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4760 The same fix has been applied.
4766 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4767 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4770 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4771 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4773 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4775 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4776 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4777 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4778 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4779 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4781 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4782 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4783 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4784 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4787 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4795 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4796 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4798 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4800 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4802 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4803 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4804 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4806 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4807 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4808 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4810 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4811 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4814 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4815 ${stat: expansion item.
4817 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4818 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4820 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4821 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4824 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4826 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4829 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4830 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4832 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4834 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4835 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4836 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4837 the end of the subprocess.
4839 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4840 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4841 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4842 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4843 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4845 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4847 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4849 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4850 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4852 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4854 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4856 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4857 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4860 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4862 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4863 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4864 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4866 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4867 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4869 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4870 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4872 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4873 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4875 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4876 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4878 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4879 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4880 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4881 contributed by a Radius user.
4883 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4884 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4886 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4887 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4889 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4892 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4893 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4896 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4897 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4898 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4899 header lines when this was not necessary.
4901 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4903 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4904 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4905 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4908 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4911 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4912 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4913 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4914 return code was incorrect.
4916 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4918 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4920 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4922 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4924 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4925 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4926 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4927 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4928 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4931 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4933 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4934 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4935 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4936 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4937 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4938 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4939 which is clearly wrong.
4941 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4943 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4944 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4945 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4948 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4949 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4951 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4953 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4954 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4956 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4957 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4959 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4960 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4962 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4963 recipients, not senders.
4965 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4966 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4968 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4970 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4972 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4973 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4974 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4975 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4977 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4979 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4980 clock is set back in time.
4982 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4983 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4985 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4986 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4988 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4989 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4992 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4993 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4996 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4999 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5001 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5002 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5003 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5005 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5006 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5007 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5008 helo verification defer as a failure.
5010 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5011 actual error message.
5017 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5019 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5020 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5021 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5022 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5024 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5026 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5027 can still be requested.
5029 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5030 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5031 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5032 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5034 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5035 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5036 circumstances, but probably never did.
5038 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5039 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5040 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5043 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5045 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5046 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5048 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5050 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5052 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5053 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5054 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5055 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5056 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5057 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5059 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5060 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5061 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5062 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5063 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5064 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5066 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5067 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5069 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5070 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5072 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5073 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5075 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5077 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5079 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5081 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5083 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5085 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5087 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5089 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5090 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5091 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5093 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5094 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5095 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5096 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5098 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5099 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5100 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5102 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5103 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5104 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5105 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5107 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5108 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5111 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5112 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5113 should work with maildirs and everything.
5115 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5116 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5118 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5121 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5122 function for BDB 4.3.
5124 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5126 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5127 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5130 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5131 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5132 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5133 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5134 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5135 formatting function string_vformat().
5137 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5138 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5139 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5140 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5141 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5142 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5143 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5144 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5146 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5147 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5150 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5151 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5153 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5154 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5155 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5156 test. It is now used for both.
5158 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5159 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5160 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5161 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5162 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5163 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5165 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5166 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5167 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5170 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5171 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5172 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5174 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5175 experimental DomainKeys support:
5177 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5178 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5179 the control was given.
5181 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5183 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5185 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5187 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5188 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5189 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5192 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5193 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5194 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5195 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5196 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5197 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5200 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5201 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5202 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5203 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5204 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5205 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5207 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5208 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5209 do -d+all out of habit.
5211 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5212 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5215 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5216 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5217 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5218 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5219 record types that Exim uses.
5221 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5222 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5223 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5224 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5225 non-existent file that was broken.
5227 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5228 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5230 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5231 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5232 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5234 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5236 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5237 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5238 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5239 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5240 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5243 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5244 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5245 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5246 at a slight CPU cost.
5248 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5249 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5251 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5254 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5256 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5257 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5263 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5264 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5266 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5268 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5270 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5271 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5273 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5274 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5275 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5276 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5277 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5278 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5281 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5282 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5283 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5284 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5287 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5288 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5289 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5290 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5291 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5292 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5293 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5296 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5297 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5299 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5300 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5301 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5302 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5303 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5304 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5306 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5307 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5308 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5309 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5311 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5314 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5315 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5317 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5318 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5319 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5320 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5323 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5325 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5326 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5328 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5329 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5330 to what was transported.)
5332 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5334 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5335 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5336 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5337 spamd_address settings.
5339 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5340 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5341 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5342 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5343 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5345 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5347 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5348 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5349 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5350 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5351 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5353 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5354 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5356 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5357 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5358 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5359 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5360 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5361 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5362 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5365 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5366 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5367 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5368 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5369 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5370 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5371 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5374 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5376 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5377 driver and ACL definitions.
5379 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5380 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5382 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5383 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5384 understands it better than I do:
5386 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5387 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5389 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5390 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5391 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5392 => three warnings about OTP not working
5393 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5395 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5396 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5397 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5398 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5400 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5401 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5403 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5404 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5405 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5407 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5408 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5411 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5412 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5415 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5416 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5417 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5419 warn !verify = sender
5420 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5422 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5423 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5425 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5427 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5428 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5430 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5431 nomenclature these days.)
5433 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5434 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5436 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5437 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5438 . First host does not offer TLS;
5439 . First host accepts first address;
5440 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5441 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5442 . Second host accepts second address.
5443 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5444 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5447 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5448 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5449 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5450 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5451 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5453 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5454 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5456 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5457 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5459 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5460 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5461 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5463 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5464 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5467 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5469 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5470 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5471 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5472 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5473 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5474 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5475 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5477 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5478 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5479 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5480 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5481 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5483 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5484 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5487 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5488 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5489 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5490 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5491 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5492 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5494 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5496 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5497 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5498 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5499 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5500 printable escape sequences.
5502 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5503 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5506 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5507 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5510 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5511 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5512 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5513 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5514 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5516 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5517 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5518 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5520 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5522 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5523 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5526 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5527 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5528 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5529 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5530 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5531 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5532 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5533 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5534 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5537 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5538 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5539 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5540 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5544 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5545 ----------------------------------------
5547 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5548 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5549 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5550 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5551 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5552 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5555 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5556 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5557 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5558 historical information.
5564 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5566 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5567 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5569 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5570 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5573 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5574 filter fails to execute.
5576 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5577 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5578 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5579 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5580 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5582 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5584 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5585 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5586 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5587 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5589 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5590 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5591 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5592 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5593 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5595 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5597 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5599 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5600 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5601 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5602 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5604 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5605 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5606 sender verification.
5608 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5609 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5611 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5613 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5616 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5617 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5619 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5620 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5622 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5623 information about exactly what failed.
5625 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5627 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5628 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5629 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5631 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5632 It is now set to "smtps".
5634 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5635 ignore_target_hosts.
5637 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5638 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5639 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5640 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5643 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5644 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5645 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5647 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5648 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5649 wake it up if nothing else does.
5651 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5652 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5653 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5656 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5657 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5659 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5661 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5662 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5663 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5664 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5665 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5666 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5667 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5668 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5670 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5671 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5672 than one IP address.
5674 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5675 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5676 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5677 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5679 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5680 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5681 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5682 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5683 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5686 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5687 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5688 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5689 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5691 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5692 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5695 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5696 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5697 $sender_host_address.
5699 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5700 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5701 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5702 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5703 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5706 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5708 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5709 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5711 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5712 just the host names, not the priorities.
5714 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5715 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5716 controlled by a keyword.
5718 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5719 multiple records are returned.
5721 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5722 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5725 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5727 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5728 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5730 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5731 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5732 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5734 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5736 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5738 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5740 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5741 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5742 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5743 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5744 because the tests only now provoked it.
5746 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5747 (this can affect the format of dates).
5749 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5750 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5751 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5752 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5754 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5756 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5757 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5758 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5759 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5761 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5762 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5763 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5765 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5768 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5769 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5770 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5771 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5772 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5773 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5776 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5777 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5778 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5781 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5782 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5783 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5785 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5786 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5787 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5788 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5789 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5790 so I produce this patch..."
5792 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5793 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5796 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5797 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5798 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5799 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5802 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5804 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5805 long debug lines gets shown.
5807 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5808 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5810 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5812 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5813 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5814 of $primary_hostname.
5816 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5817 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5818 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5819 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5820 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5821 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5822 by change 4.50/55 above.
5824 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5825 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5826 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5827 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5828 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5829 running as the user.
5832 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5833 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5834 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5837 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5838 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5840 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5841 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5842 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5843 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5844 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5846 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5847 This has been fixed.
5849 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5850 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5851 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5852 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5855 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5857 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5858 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5859 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5860 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5862 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5863 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5865 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5866 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5867 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5869 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5870 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5871 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5874 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5875 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5876 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5878 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5879 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5880 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5881 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5883 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5884 during host lookups.
5886 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5887 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5889 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5891 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5892 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5893 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5894 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5895 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5898 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5899 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5901 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5902 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5903 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5905 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5907 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5908 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5909 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5910 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5911 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5912 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5915 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5916 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5917 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5918 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5919 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5921 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5924 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5926 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5927 "vacation" handling.
5929 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5930 OS variants using glibc.
5932 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5935 ----------------------------------------------------
5936 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5937 ----------------------------------------------------
5943 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5944 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5947 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5948 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5951 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5952 filter fails to execute.
5954 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5955 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5956 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5957 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5958 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5960 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5961 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5962 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5963 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5965 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5966 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5967 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5968 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5969 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5971 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5973 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5974 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5975 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5976 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5978 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5979 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5980 sender verification.
5982 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5983 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5985 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5986 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5988 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5989 ignore_target_hosts.
5991 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5992 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5993 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5994 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5997 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5998 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5999 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6001 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6002 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6003 wake it up if nothing else does.
6005 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6006 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6007 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6010 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6011 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6013 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6015 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6016 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6019 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6020 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6023 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6024 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6025 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6026 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6027 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6030 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6031 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6034 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6035 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6036 $sender_host_address.
6038 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6040 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6041 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6042 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6044 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6047 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6048 (this can affect the format of dates).
6050 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6051 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6052 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6053 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6055 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6056 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6057 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6059 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6060 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6061 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6062 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6064 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6065 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6066 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6068 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6071 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6072 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6073 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6074 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6075 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6076 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6079 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6080 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6081 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6082 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6085 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6086 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6087 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6088 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6089 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6090 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6091 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6093 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6094 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6095 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6096 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6097 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6098 running as the user.
6101 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6102 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6103 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6106 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6107 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6108 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6109 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6110 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6112 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6113 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6114 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6115 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6118 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6119 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6120 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6121 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6122 because the tests only now provoked it.
6128 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6129 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6130 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6131 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6132 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6133 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6134 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6136 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6137 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6140 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6142 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6144 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6145 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6148 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6149 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6150 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6151 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6152 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6154 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6155 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6157 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6159 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6161 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6164 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6165 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6167 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6168 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6169 affecting debugging statements).
6171 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6173 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6174 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6175 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6176 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6177 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6178 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6179 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6180 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6181 after the received time, and all would be well.
6183 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6184 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6185 condition in an expansion string.
6187 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6189 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6190 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6191 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6192 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6193 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6194 job under whatever limits there are.
6196 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6198 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6201 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6202 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6203 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6204 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6207 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6208 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6209 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6210 binary data in such strings.
6212 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6214 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6215 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6216 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6217 failure, which is pointless.
6219 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6221 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6223 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6224 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6225 Sender: header lines.
6227 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6228 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6229 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6231 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6232 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6233 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6234 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6235 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6238 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6239 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6240 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6241 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6242 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6244 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6245 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6246 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6249 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6250 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6252 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6253 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6255 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6257 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6259 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6261 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6264 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6266 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6268 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6269 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6270 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6271 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6273 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6274 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6280 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6281 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6282 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6284 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6285 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6286 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6287 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6288 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6289 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6291 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6292 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6293 verification failure".
6295 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6296 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6297 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6298 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6300 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6301 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6302 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6303 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6304 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6305 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6306 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6307 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6308 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6309 treated as a timeout.
6311 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6312 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6313 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6314 not set for Exim filters).
6316 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6317 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6318 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6320 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6322 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6323 try to make them clearer.
6325 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6326 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6328 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6330 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6332 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6333 only the Cygwin environment.
6335 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6336 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6337 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6338 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6339 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6341 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6342 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6343 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6344 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6345 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6346 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6347 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6349 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6350 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6352 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6354 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6355 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6356 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6358 To: susanne@some.where
6360 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6361 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6362 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6363 of addresses in From: header lines).
6365 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6366 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6367 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6369 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6370 treated as non-personal.
6372 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6373 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6375 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6377 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6379 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6380 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6381 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6383 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6384 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6386 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6387 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6388 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6389 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6390 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6391 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6393 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6394 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6395 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6396 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6397 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6398 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6399 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6400 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6402 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6404 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6405 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6407 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6408 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6409 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6411 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6412 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6414 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6415 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6416 rather than long int.
6418 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6420 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6426 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6427 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6428 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6429 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6430 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6431 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6437 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6438 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6440 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6441 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6442 socklen_t is defined.
6444 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6447 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6450 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6451 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6452 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6453 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6454 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6456 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6457 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6458 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6459 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6461 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6462 of flapping under certain conditions.
6464 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6465 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6466 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6468 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6470 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6472 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6473 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6474 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6475 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6477 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6478 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6479 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6480 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6481 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6482 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6483 preserved with the message after it was received.
6485 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6486 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6487 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6488 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6489 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6490 test suite worked just fine.
6492 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6493 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6494 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6496 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6497 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6500 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6501 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6502 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6503 does not fully solve it.
6505 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6506 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6507 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6508 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6509 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6511 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6512 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6513 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6515 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6516 string, for example:
6518 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6520 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6521 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6522 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6523 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6524 the routers could not see them.
6526 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6527 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6529 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6530 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6533 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6534 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6535 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6536 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6537 that needed quoting.
6539 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6540 was not being matched caselessly.
6542 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6545 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6546 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6547 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6548 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6549 when use_sender is false.
6551 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6553 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6555 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6557 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6558 the configuration file.
6560 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6561 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6563 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6565 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6566 bytes in the message body.
6568 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6569 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6572 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6574 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6576 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6577 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6578 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6579 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6586 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6587 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6589 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6590 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6591 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6592 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6593 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6595 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6596 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6598 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6599 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6600 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6602 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6603 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6604 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6606 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6609 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6610 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6611 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6612 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6613 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6614 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6615 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6621 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6622 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6623 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6624 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6625 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6626 default (and expected) setting.
6628 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6629 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6630 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6631 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6633 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6634 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6636 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6639 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6640 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6641 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6642 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6643 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6644 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6646 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6647 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6648 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6650 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6651 part (NOT match_host).
6653 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6655 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6656 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6657 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6658 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6659 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6660 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6661 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6662 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6663 the same named file.
6665 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6666 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6669 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6670 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6671 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6672 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6675 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6676 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6677 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6679 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6681 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6683 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6685 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6686 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6688 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6689 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6690 before starting the TLS session.
6692 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6694 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6695 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6697 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6698 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6699 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6700 colon in the middle).
6706 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6707 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6708 multiple configurations are in use.
6710 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6711 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6712 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6713 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6714 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6715 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6717 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6718 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6720 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6721 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6722 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6724 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6725 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6728 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6729 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6731 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6733 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6734 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6736 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6744 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6745 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6746 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6747 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6748 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6750 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6753 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6754 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6755 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6756 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6757 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6758 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6760 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6761 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6762 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6763 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6764 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6765 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6766 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6769 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6770 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6771 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6772 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6773 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6775 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6777 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6778 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6779 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6781 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6783 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6784 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6785 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6788 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6789 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6791 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6792 Three changes have been made:
6794 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6795 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6796 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6797 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6798 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6800 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6803 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6804 the modified behaviour.
6810 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6813 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6814 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6816 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6817 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6818 try to track down a specific problem.
6820 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6821 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6822 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6824 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6827 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6828 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6829 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6830 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6831 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6832 some earlier ones do not.
6834 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6836 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6837 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6838 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6839 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6840 address literals are enabled, of course).
6842 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6844 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6845 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6846 by a command such as
6850 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6852 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6854 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6855 remained set. It is now erased.
6857 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6858 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6860 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6861 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6862 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6863 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6864 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6865 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6866 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6867 appropriate error code.
6869 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6870 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6871 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6872 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6873 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6874 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6876 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6877 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6878 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6880 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6881 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6882 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6883 terminate the header.
6885 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6886 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6887 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6889 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6890 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6891 (4.30/29). In particular:
6893 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6896 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6897 to write a maildirsize file.
6899 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6900 the transport, the new value overrides.
6902 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6905 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6906 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6907 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6910 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6911 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6912 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6915 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6916 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6917 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6919 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6920 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6923 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6924 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6925 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6927 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6929 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6931 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6933 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6934 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6937 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6938 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6939 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6940 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6941 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6942 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6943 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6946 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6947 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6948 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6949 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6950 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6953 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6954 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6955 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6956 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6957 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6958 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6959 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6960 cached value only when the same options are set.
6962 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6964 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6965 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6966 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6967 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6968 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6970 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6971 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6972 it is clearly obsolete.
6974 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6977 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6978 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6979 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6982 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6983 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6984 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6985 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6986 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6988 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6989 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6990 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6991 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6993 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6995 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6997 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6998 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7001 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7002 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7003 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7004 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7005 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7006 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7009 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7010 with the -f command-line option.
7012 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7013 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7014 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7015 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7016 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7017 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7019 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7020 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7023 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7024 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7025 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7026 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7027 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7028 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7029 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7030 buffer is too small.
7032 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7033 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7035 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7036 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7037 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7038 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7039 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7040 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7041 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7042 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7043 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7045 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7046 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7047 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7049 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7050 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7053 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7054 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7055 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7056 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7057 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7059 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7060 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7061 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7062 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7065 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7067 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7069 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7070 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7072 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7073 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7074 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7076 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7077 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7078 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7079 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7080 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7082 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7083 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7084 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7085 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7086 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7087 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7088 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7090 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7091 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7092 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7093 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7094 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7095 the test of how many are available.
7097 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7098 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7099 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7100 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7101 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7102 new message is started.
7104 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7105 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7107 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7108 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7110 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7111 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7112 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7115 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7116 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7117 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7118 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7119 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7120 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7121 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7123 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7124 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7125 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7126 interpreted as octal.
7128 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7131 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7132 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7133 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7134 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7135 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7136 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7138 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7139 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7140 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7141 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7143 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7144 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7145 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7146 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7148 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7149 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7152 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7153 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7155 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7157 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7158 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7159 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7160 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7162 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7163 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7164 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7165 supplied", which is not helpful.
7167 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7168 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7169 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7171 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7172 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7173 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7174 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7175 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7176 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7177 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7178 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7180 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7181 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7182 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7183 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7184 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7186 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7187 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7188 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7189 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7190 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7191 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7193 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7194 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7195 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7197 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7199 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7200 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7201 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7204 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7206 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7207 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7208 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7209 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7210 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7211 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7212 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7213 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7215 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7216 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7217 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7218 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7219 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7221 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7224 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7225 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7226 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7227 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7228 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7229 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7230 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7231 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7232 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7238 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7239 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7240 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7242 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7245 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7246 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7247 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7249 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7250 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7251 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7252 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7253 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7254 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7256 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7257 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7258 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7259 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7260 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7261 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7262 the Exim test suite.
7264 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7265 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7266 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7267 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7269 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7270 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7271 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7272 specify it in this variable.
7274 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7275 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7276 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7277 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7279 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7280 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7281 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7282 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7284 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7285 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7286 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7287 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7288 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7290 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7292 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7295 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7296 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7297 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7298 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7299 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7301 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7302 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7304 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7305 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7306 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7307 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7308 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7310 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7311 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7313 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7314 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7315 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7317 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7318 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7320 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7321 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7323 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7324 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7325 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7327 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7328 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7330 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7331 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7332 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7333 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7335 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7337 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7338 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7339 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7340 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7342 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7344 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7345 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7347 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7349 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7350 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7351 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7352 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7353 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7354 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7356 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7358 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7359 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7362 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7364 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7365 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7367 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7368 550 Sender verify failed
7370 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7371 the final line of the response.
7373 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7374 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7375 all other user lookups.
7377 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7380 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7381 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7382 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7383 result into an int without checking.
7385 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7386 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7387 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7389 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7390 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7391 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7392 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7394 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7397 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7398 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7400 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7401 to the empty sender.
7403 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7404 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7405 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7406 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7407 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7408 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7409 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7412 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7413 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7414 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7415 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7418 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7419 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7421 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7424 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7425 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7427 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7429 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7430 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7433 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7434 as soon as it is encountered.
7436 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7438 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7441 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7442 recognizes a tab character.
7444 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7445 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7446 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7447 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7449 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7451 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7454 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7456 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7458 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7459 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7462 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7463 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7464 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7465 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7466 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7468 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7469 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7471 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7472 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7473 list (.included file names were always shown).
7475 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7476 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7477 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7480 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7481 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7483 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7485 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7487 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7489 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7490 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7491 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7492 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7493 failures to open the logs.
7495 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7496 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7497 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7498 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7499 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7500 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7501 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7507 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7508 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7509 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7512 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7513 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7514 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7516 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7517 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7518 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7520 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7521 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7522 causing some misleading effects.
7524 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7525 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7526 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7528 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7529 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7530 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7531 queue-runner function directly.
7537 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7540 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7541 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7542 was always written to the default place.
7544 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7545 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7546 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7548 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7550 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7552 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7553 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7554 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7556 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7557 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7560 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7561 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7562 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7564 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7565 command line option is disabled.
7567 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7568 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7570 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7572 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7574 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7575 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7577 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7579 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7580 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7581 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7582 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7583 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7584 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7586 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7587 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7590 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7591 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7593 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7594 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7596 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7597 received was valid base64.
7599 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7600 name of the variable that was being set.
7602 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7604 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7605 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7606 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7607 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7608 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7609 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7611 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7613 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7614 nor realm was specified.
7616 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7617 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7618 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7619 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7621 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7622 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7623 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7625 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7626 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7627 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7629 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7630 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7631 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7632 some systems use these upper case variants.
7634 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7635 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7636 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7637 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7639 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7641 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7642 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7644 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7645 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7648 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7650 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7651 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7652 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7653 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7655 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7658 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7659 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7660 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7662 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7663 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7665 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7666 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7667 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7668 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7670 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7671 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7672 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7674 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7676 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7677 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7678 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7679 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7682 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7683 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7684 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7686 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7688 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7689 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7691 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7692 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7694 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7695 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7696 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7697 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7698 when emails are that large.
7705 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7706 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7708 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7709 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7710 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7712 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7713 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7714 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7716 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7717 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7718 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7719 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7720 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7722 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7723 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7724 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7725 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7726 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7729 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7730 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7731 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7732 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7733 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7734 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7735 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7736 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7737 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7738 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7739 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7740 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7741 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7742 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7744 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7745 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7748 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7749 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7750 error should be diagnosed.
7752 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7753 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7754 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7755 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7756 appeared instead of "NULL".
7758 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7759 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7760 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7761 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7762 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7763 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7766 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7767 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7768 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7774 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7775 or receiver verification errors.
7777 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7780 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7781 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7782 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7783 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7785 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7786 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7787 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7788 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7789 shouldn't happen again.
7791 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7792 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7793 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7795 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7796 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7798 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7800 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7801 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7803 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7804 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7807 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7808 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7809 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7811 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7812 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7813 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7814 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7816 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7817 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7818 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7819 to define what should happen).
7821 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7822 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7823 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7825 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7827 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7829 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7830 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7832 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7833 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7834 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7835 structure in all cases.
7837 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7838 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7839 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7840 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7842 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7843 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7846 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7847 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7849 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7850 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7852 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7853 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7854 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7856 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7857 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7858 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7860 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7861 the book and for uniformity.
7863 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7865 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7866 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7867 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7868 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7869 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7870 non-existent command as the problem.
7872 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7873 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7874 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7876 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7878 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7879 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7880 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7882 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7883 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7884 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7885 timestamps using strftime().
7887 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7888 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7890 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7891 transport-time rewrites.
7893 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7894 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7895 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7896 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7898 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7899 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7901 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7902 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7903 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7904 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7907 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7908 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7909 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7910 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7911 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7912 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7913 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7915 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7916 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7917 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7918 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7919 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7921 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7922 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7923 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7924 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7925 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7926 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7927 remaining text gets split now.
7929 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7930 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7931 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7932 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7934 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7935 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7936 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7937 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7940 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7941 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7942 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7943 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7944 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7945 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7946 passed through if needed.
7948 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7949 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7950 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7951 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7952 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7953 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7955 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7956 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7957 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7958 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7959 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7961 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7962 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7963 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7964 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7965 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7967 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7968 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7971 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7972 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7973 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7974 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7975 mayhem of various kinds.
7977 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7978 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7979 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7980 the right test for positive values.
7982 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7983 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7984 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7985 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7986 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7987 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7988 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7989 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7990 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7991 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7994 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7997 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7998 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8001 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8002 the existing equality matching.
8004 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8005 dealing with inode numbers.
8007 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8008 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8009 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8011 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8012 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8013 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8014 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8017 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8018 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8019 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8020 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8021 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8022 relay addresses has also been removed.
8024 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8026 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8027 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8028 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8030 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8031 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8032 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8033 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8034 processing applies to CR:
8036 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8037 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8039 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8040 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8041 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8042 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8044 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8045 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8046 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8048 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8049 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8050 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8051 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8052 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8053 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8056 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8059 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8060 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8061 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8062 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8065 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8067 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8069 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8071 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8072 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8073 not considered personal.
8075 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8077 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8079 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8081 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8082 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8083 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8084 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8085 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8086 header lines, and spool format errors.
8088 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8089 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8090 for more flexibility.
8092 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8093 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8094 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8096 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8099 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8100 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8101 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8102 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8103 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8104 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8105 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8106 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8107 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8109 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8110 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8111 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8112 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8113 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8114 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8115 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8117 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8118 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8119 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8121 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8122 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8123 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8124 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8125 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8126 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8127 instead of killing the process with assert().
8129 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8130 than Unicode encoding.
8132 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8133 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8134 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8135 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8137 77. Added process_log_path.
8139 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8140 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8142 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8143 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8145 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8146 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8147 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8149 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8150 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8151 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8152 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8153 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8156 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8157 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8160 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8161 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8162 they will be used during message reception.
8168 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.