1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
281 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
283 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
284 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
285 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
286 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
288 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
289 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
291 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
292 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
293 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
294 mode until after various protocol state checks.
295 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
297 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
299 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
300 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
302 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
305 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
306 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
307 executed child processes (if any).
312 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
313 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
314 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
316 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
318 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
319 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
322 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
323 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
324 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
326 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
328 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
330 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
331 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
332 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
334 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
335 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
336 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
338 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
339 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
341 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
342 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
345 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
346 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
347 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
348 should both provide the file and set the option.
349 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
351 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
352 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
354 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
355 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
356 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
357 Authentication-Results: header.
359 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
360 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
361 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
362 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
364 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
365 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
366 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
367 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
368 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
369 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
370 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
372 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
373 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
374 copies while it is still usable.
376 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
377 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
378 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
380 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
381 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
383 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
384 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
385 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
386 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
388 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
389 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
390 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
393 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
394 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
395 - the pipe transport command
396 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
397 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
399 - paths used by single-key lookups
400 Previously this was permitted.
402 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
403 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
404 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
405 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
407 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
408 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
409 support larger malloc requests.
411 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
412 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
413 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
414 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
416 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
417 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
418 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
419 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
422 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
423 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
424 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
425 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
426 data being length-specified.
428 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
429 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
430 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
431 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
433 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
434 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
435 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
436 not being properly tracked.
438 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
439 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
440 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
441 minute could be seen.
443 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
444 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
445 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
447 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
448 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
450 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
451 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
454 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
456 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
457 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
459 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
460 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
461 filesystem as sufficient validation.
463 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
464 argument is supplied.
466 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
467 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
468 access under Exim's current working directory.
470 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
471 Previously no event was raised.
473 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
474 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
475 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
478 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
479 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
480 the size of the signature hash.
482 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
483 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
485 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
486 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
487 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
488 dropped between messages.
490 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
491 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
492 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
493 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
495 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
496 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
497 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
498 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
499 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
500 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
501 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
502 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
503 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
505 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
506 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
507 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
509 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
510 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
517 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
518 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
520 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
521 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
524 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
527 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
529 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
531 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
532 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
534 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
535 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
536 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
537 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
538 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
539 suitably configured).
541 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
542 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
544 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
545 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
548 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
549 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
551 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
552 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
553 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
554 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
557 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
558 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
559 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
561 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
564 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
565 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
567 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
568 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
569 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
570 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
573 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
574 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
575 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
576 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
579 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
580 shared (NFS) environment.
582 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
583 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
586 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
587 on some platforms for bit 31.
589 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
590 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
591 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
592 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
593 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
594 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
595 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
596 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
598 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
600 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
601 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
603 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
604 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
607 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
608 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
611 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
612 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
613 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
616 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
617 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
618 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
620 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
621 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
622 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
623 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
624 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
626 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
629 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
630 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
631 be requested on all coneections.
633 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
634 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
636 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
638 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
639 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
640 one for these; the option was ignored.
642 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
643 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
644 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
645 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
647 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
648 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
649 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
652 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
653 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
654 error ignored was made.
656 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
658 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
659 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
660 values, to catch one form of exploit.
662 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
663 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
664 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
666 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
667 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
670 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
671 them in our smtp response.
673 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
674 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
675 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
676 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
677 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
679 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
680 link count into consideration.
682 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
683 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
685 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
686 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
687 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
690 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
692 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
694 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
696 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
697 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
698 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
699 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
701 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
703 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
704 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
707 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
708 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
709 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
711 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
712 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
713 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
715 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
716 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
717 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
718 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
719 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
720 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
721 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
722 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
724 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
725 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
726 resulted in an indefinite loop.
728 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
729 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
730 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
736 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
737 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
739 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
740 non-signal-safe functions being used.
742 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
743 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
744 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
746 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
747 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
748 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
750 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
751 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
752 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
753 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
754 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
757 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
758 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
760 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
761 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
762 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
763 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
764 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
765 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
766 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
768 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
769 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
771 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
774 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
775 Previously this would segfault.
777 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
780 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
781 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
782 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
783 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
784 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
785 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
787 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
789 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
790 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
791 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
792 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
794 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
796 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
797 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
798 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
799 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
801 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
803 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
805 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
806 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
807 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
809 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
810 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
811 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
813 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
815 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
816 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
817 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
818 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
820 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
821 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
822 promised '?' replacement.
824 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
826 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
827 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
828 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
829 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
830 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
832 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
833 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
834 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
836 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
837 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
838 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
840 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
841 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
842 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
844 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
845 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
846 hope that is portable enough.
848 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
849 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
850 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
851 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
853 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
854 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
855 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
857 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
858 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
859 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
860 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
862 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
863 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
865 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
866 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
867 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
868 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
870 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
871 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
872 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
874 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
875 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
876 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
877 the previous G, M, k.
879 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
880 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
883 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
884 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
885 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
886 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
888 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
889 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
891 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
892 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
893 off past the nul-terimation.
895 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
896 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
897 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
898 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
899 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
901 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
903 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
904 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
905 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
908 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
909 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
911 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
912 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
913 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
915 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
916 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
917 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
919 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
920 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
926 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
927 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
928 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
929 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
930 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
931 be defined in redis_servers.
933 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
934 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
936 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
937 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
938 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
939 extant use locations.
941 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
942 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
944 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
945 Previously only the last row was returned.
947 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
948 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
949 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
950 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
953 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
954 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
955 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
956 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
957 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
958 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
959 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
960 Main pool for expansions.
961 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
962 active in the testsuite.
963 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
965 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
966 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
967 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
968 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
971 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
972 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
975 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
976 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
977 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
979 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
980 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
981 ClamAV interface method is removed.
983 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
984 rows affected is given instead).
986 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
987 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
989 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
990 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
991 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
992 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
993 for all multi-message initiating connections.
995 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
996 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
997 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
999 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1000 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1001 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1002 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1005 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1006 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1007 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1010 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1012 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1013 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1015 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1016 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1017 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1019 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1020 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1021 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1024 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1025 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1027 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1028 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1029 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1031 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1032 for the build is renamed.
1034 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1035 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1036 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1038 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1039 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1040 result replacing the original.
1042 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1043 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1044 and the resources needed to be freed.
1046 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1048 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1051 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1052 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1053 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1054 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1056 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1057 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1059 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1060 newer versions of the scanner.
1062 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1063 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1064 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1065 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1066 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1067 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1068 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1070 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1071 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1072 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1073 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1074 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1075 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1076 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1077 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1078 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1079 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1081 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1082 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1084 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1086 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1087 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1089 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1090 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1092 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1093 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1094 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1096 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1097 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1098 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1099 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1101 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1102 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1105 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1106 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1108 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1109 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1110 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1111 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1112 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1114 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1115 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1118 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1119 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1121 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1124 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1125 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1126 "bare" representation.
1128 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1129 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1130 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1131 corrupted the output.
1137 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1138 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1139 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1140 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1142 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1143 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1145 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1146 This permits better logging.
1148 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1149 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1150 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1151 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1152 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1153 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1155 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1156 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1159 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1160 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1161 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1163 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1164 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1166 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1167 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1168 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1169 client, there is no benefit for these.
1170 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1171 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1172 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1175 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1176 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1178 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1179 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1180 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1182 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1183 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1185 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1186 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1187 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1188 signature and again for transmission.
1190 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1191 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1192 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1194 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1195 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1196 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1197 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1198 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1199 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1200 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1202 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1203 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1204 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1205 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1207 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1208 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1209 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1210 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1211 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1212 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1215 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1216 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1217 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1218 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1221 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1222 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1223 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1224 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1227 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1228 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1231 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1232 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1233 banner-time rejection.
1235 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1238 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1239 is the name of a transport.
1242 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1244 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1245 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1247 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1248 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1249 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1252 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1253 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1254 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1255 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1257 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1258 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1259 initial verify call returned a defer.
1261 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1262 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1264 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1265 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1267 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1268 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1270 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1271 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1273 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1274 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1277 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1278 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1280 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1281 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1282 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1284 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1285 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1286 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1287 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1289 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1290 and confused the parent.
1292 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1293 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1295 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1298 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1299 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1300 out-of-order delivery.
1302 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1303 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1304 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1307 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1308 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1311 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1312 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1313 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1315 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1316 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1317 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1318 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1319 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1320 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1322 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1323 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1324 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1326 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1327 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1328 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1330 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1331 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1332 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1333 though a different problem.
1339 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1340 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1342 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1344 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1345 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1347 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1348 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1350 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1351 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1352 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1353 before acknowledging the chunk.
1355 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1356 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1357 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1359 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1360 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1361 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1364 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1365 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1366 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1368 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1369 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1371 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1372 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1373 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1374 body hash calculated value.
1376 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1377 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1378 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1380 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1382 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1383 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1385 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1386 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1387 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1389 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1390 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1391 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1392 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1393 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1394 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1396 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1397 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1398 past that check, despite the cost.
1400 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1401 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1402 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1404 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1405 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1406 TLS library to consume.
1408 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1410 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1412 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1413 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1414 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1415 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1416 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1417 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1418 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1420 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1422 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1424 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1425 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1426 should be warning-free.
1428 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1430 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1431 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1433 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1434 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1435 general solution here.
1437 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1438 already-broken messages in the queue.
1440 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1442 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1448 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1449 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1451 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1452 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1453 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1455 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1456 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1457 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1458 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1459 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1460 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1461 if one fails this test.
1462 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1463 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1465 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1466 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1468 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1469 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1471 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1472 in rewrites and routers.
1474 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1475 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1477 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1478 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1480 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1482 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1485 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1486 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1487 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1488 connection after a verify cache hit.
1489 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1491 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1492 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1494 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1495 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1496 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1497 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1498 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1500 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1501 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1503 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1504 Previously they were not counted.
1506 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1507 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1508 that needed the lookup.
1510 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1511 distinguished as "(=".
1513 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1514 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1516 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1518 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1519 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1521 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1522 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1524 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1525 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1528 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1529 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1530 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1531 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1533 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1535 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1536 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1537 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1539 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1540 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1541 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1544 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1545 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1546 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1549 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1550 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1551 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1553 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1554 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1557 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1559 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1560 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1562 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1563 are not in the system include path.
1565 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1566 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1567 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1568 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1570 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1571 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1572 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1574 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1576 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1577 an incoming connection.
1579 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1582 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1583 fallback to "prime256v1".
1585 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1586 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1592 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1593 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1594 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1595 client dropping the TLS connection.
1597 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1598 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1600 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1601 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1602 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1603 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1606 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1607 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1608 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1609 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1610 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1611 check on the next write.
1613 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1614 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1615 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1616 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1617 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1619 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1620 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1622 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1623 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1624 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1626 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1627 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1628 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1629 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1631 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1632 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1634 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1635 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1637 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1638 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1639 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1642 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1644 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1646 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1648 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1649 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1651 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1652 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1654 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1656 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1657 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1659 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1661 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1662 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1664 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1666 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1667 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1668 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1669 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1670 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1671 they will retry in-clear.
1672 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1673 at installation time.
1675 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1676 with the $config_file variable.
1678 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1679 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1680 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1681 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1682 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1684 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1685 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1686 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1687 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1688 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1690 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1692 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1693 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1694 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1695 list order is no longer honoured.
1697 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1698 for DKIM processing.
1700 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1701 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1703 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1704 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1705 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1706 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1708 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1709 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1711 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1712 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1714 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1715 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1717 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1719 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1720 cached by the daemon.
1722 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1723 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1725 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1726 keys are given for lookup.
1728 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1729 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1730 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1731 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1733 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1734 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1735 server-side so match that on older versions.
1737 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1738 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1739 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1741 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1742 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1744 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1745 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1746 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1747 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1748 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1749 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1750 initial truncated version.
1752 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1754 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1756 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1757 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1759 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1761 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1763 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1764 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1767 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1768 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1771 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1772 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1774 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1775 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1778 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1779 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1780 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1782 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1783 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1784 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1785 extraction. Accept either.
1791 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1794 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1796 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1799 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1800 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1801 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1802 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1804 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1805 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1806 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1808 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1809 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1810 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1813 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1816 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1817 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1818 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1819 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1820 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1822 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1823 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1824 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1826 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1828 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1829 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1831 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1832 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1834 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1837 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1838 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1840 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1841 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1842 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1844 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1845 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1846 specify a port-range.
1848 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1849 timeout value per server.
1851 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1852 now have the list separator specified.
1854 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1857 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1860 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1862 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1863 rather than the verbs used.
1865 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1866 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1868 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1870 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1871 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1873 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1874 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1876 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1877 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1879 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1881 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1883 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1884 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1885 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1886 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1888 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1890 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1891 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1893 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1894 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1896 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1898 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1900 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1902 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1903 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1905 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1906 added for tls authenticator.
1908 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1914 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1915 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1916 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1917 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1918 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1919 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1920 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1922 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1923 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1924 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1925 function when detected.
1927 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1928 cause callback expansion.
1930 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1931 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1932 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1933 instead of bool when processing it.
1935 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1936 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1938 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1940 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1942 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1944 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1945 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1947 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1948 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1949 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1950 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1951 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1952 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1954 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1955 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1958 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1959 version 3.3.6 or later.
1961 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1962 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1963 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1964 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1965 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1966 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1969 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1970 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1972 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1973 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1974 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1977 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1978 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1979 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1981 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1982 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1984 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1985 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1988 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1990 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1991 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1993 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1994 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1997 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1999 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2002 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2003 output list separator was used.
2008 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2009 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2012 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2013 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2015 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2017 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2018 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2024 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2026 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2027 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2028 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2029 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2030 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2031 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2033 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2034 utilities have not been installed.
2036 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2037 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2039 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2040 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2042 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2043 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2044 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2045 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2047 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2049 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2050 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2052 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2055 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2057 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2058 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2059 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2061 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2062 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2063 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2064 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2065 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2066 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2068 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2070 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2071 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2073 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2076 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2078 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2080 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2081 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2083 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2084 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2086 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2088 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2090 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2091 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2093 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2094 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2095 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2097 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2098 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2099 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2102 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2104 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2105 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2108 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2109 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2112 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2113 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2115 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2116 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2118 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2120 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2121 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2122 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2124 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2125 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2127 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2128 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2131 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2132 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2133 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2135 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2137 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2138 Christian Aistleitner.
2140 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2142 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2143 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2145 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2146 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2148 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2149 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2151 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2152 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2154 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2155 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2157 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2158 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2159 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2161 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2163 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2164 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2167 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2169 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2170 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2177 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2179 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2180 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2182 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2185 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2186 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2189 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2191 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2192 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2193 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2194 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2195 using channel bindings instead).
2197 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2198 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2199 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2200 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2201 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2204 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2206 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2208 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2209 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2211 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2212 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2213 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2215 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2217 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2219 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2220 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2222 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2224 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2226 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2228 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2229 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2231 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2233 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2234 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2237 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2238 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2240 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2241 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2244 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2246 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2248 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2249 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2251 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2254 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2255 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2257 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2258 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2260 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2262 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2264 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2267 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2270 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2272 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2273 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2274 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2275 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2277 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2279 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2280 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2281 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2282 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2285 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2286 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2287 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2289 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2290 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2291 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2292 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2294 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2295 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2296 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2297 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2298 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2299 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2300 delivery, as in LMTP.
2302 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2303 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2305 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2307 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2311 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2312 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2313 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2314 username as equal to the username.
2316 This change corrects that bug.
2318 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2319 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2320 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2322 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2324 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2325 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2326 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2327 NULL dereference and crash.
2329 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2331 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2332 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2333 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2335 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2337 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2338 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2339 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2340 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2341 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2342 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2343 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2344 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2345 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2346 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2347 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2349 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2350 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2352 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2353 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2356 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2357 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2358 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2359 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2360 an empty string is now equivalent.
2362 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2363 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2364 not performing validation itself.
2366 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2367 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2369 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2372 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2374 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2375 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2376 other false fix of the same issue.
2377 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2380 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2381 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2383 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2384 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2385 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2387 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2388 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2389 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2391 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2393 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2395 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2396 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2398 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2401 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2402 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2403 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2404 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2405 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2407 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2408 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2410 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2411 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2414 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2415 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2416 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2417 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2419 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2421 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2422 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2423 from multiple comments on this bug.
2425 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2427 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2428 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2431 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2432 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2434 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2435 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2441 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2443 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2449 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2450 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2451 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2453 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2455 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2458 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2460 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2462 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2464 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2465 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2467 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2468 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2470 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2471 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2473 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2474 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2475 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2477 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2479 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2480 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2482 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2484 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2486 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2487 non-compliant senders.
2488 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2490 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2491 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2492 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2494 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2495 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2496 in spool file corruption.
2498 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2499 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2500 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2503 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2504 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2505 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2507 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2508 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2510 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2512 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2514 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2516 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2517 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2518 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2520 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2521 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2522 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2523 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2525 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2526 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2528 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2529 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2530 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2531 resolver implementation change.
2533 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2534 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2536 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2538 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2540 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2541 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2543 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2544 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2546 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2547 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2549 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2550 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2551 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2552 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2553 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2555 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2557 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2558 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2559 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2561 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2563 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2564 read-only, out of scope).
2565 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2567 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2568 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2569 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2570 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2572 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2574 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2575 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2576 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2577 real issues in debug logging.
2579 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2580 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2582 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2583 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2584 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2586 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2587 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2588 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2591 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2592 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2594 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2595 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2596 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2597 needs to override this, it can.
2599 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2600 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2601 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2603 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2604 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2605 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2606 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2608 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2614 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2615 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2617 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2619 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2622 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2623 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2625 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2626 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2627 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2629 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2630 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2631 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2632 not safe for signals.
2634 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2635 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2636 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2637 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2640 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2642 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2643 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2644 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2645 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2646 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2648 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2649 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2650 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2651 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2652 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2653 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2655 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2656 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2657 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2658 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2660 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2661 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2662 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2663 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2665 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2666 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2667 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2668 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2669 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2670 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2671 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2672 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2673 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2675 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2676 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2677 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2678 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2680 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2681 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2682 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2683 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2684 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2685 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2686 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2687 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2688 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2689 details in the main documentation.
2691 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2693 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2695 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2696 repository when doing development or release builds.
2698 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2699 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2701 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2702 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2705 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2707 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2708 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2710 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2711 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2713 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2714 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2716 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2717 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2719 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2720 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2722 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2724 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2727 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2728 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2729 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2731 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2733 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2735 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2736 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2742 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2744 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2745 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2747 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2749 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2751 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2754 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2755 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2757 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2758 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2760 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2761 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2763 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2766 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2767 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2769 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2770 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2771 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2772 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2774 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2775 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2781 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2784 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2785 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2786 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2788 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2789 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2791 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2792 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2793 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2795 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2796 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2798 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2799 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2801 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2802 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2804 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2805 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2807 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2808 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2810 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2813 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2814 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2816 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2817 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2819 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2820 SQL string expansion failure details.
2821 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2823 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2824 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2826 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2827 extern declarations in function scope.
2828 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2830 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2831 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2832 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2835 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2836 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2838 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2839 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2841 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2842 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2844 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2845 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2847 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2848 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2851 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2853 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2855 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2856 Patch by Simon Arlott
2858 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2859 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2865 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2866 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2868 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2869 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2871 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2873 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2874 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2875 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2877 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2878 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2879 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2881 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2882 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2883 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2884 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2886 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2887 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2888 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2889 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2891 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2892 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2893 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2896 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2899 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2900 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2901 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2902 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2903 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2909 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2910 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2911 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2913 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2914 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2916 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2918 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2920 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2922 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2924 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2926 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2927 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2928 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2929 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2931 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2932 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2933 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2934 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2935 more caution in buffer sizes.
2937 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2939 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2941 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2943 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2945 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2947 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2949 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2951 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2952 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2953 ignore trailing whitespace.
2955 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2957 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2960 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2961 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2963 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2964 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2965 Notification from John Horne.
2967 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2970 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2971 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2974 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2977 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2978 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2979 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2981 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2982 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2983 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2986 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2987 option (effectively making it always true).
2989 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2990 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2992 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2993 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2995 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2996 run-time user, instead of root.
2998 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2999 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3001 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3002 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3005 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3006 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3007 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3009 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3011 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3017 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3018 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3021 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3022 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3025 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3026 Patch from Alain Williams
3028 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3030 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3031 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3033 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3034 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3036 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3038 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3040 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3041 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3043 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3045 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3047 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3048 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3049 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3051 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3052 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3054 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3055 Patch by Simon Arlott
3057 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3058 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3064 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3066 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3068 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3070 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3072 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3078 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3079 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3081 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3082 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3085 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3086 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3087 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3089 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3090 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3092 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3093 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3094 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3095 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3097 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3098 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3099 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3101 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3103 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3105 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3106 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3108 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3110 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3111 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3112 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3113 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3115 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3116 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3118 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3120 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3122 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3123 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3125 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3126 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3128 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3129 that they are available at delivery time.
3131 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3133 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3134 incoming_port log selectors.
3136 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3137 setting expands to an empty string.
3139 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3140 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3142 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3143 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3145 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3146 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3148 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3149 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3151 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3152 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3154 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3155 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3157 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3159 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3160 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3162 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3163 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3165 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3167 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3168 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3170 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3172 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3174 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3177 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3178 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3180 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3181 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3183 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3184 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3186 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3187 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3189 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3190 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3192 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3193 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3195 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3196 plus update to original patch.
3198 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3200 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3201 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3203 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3205 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3207 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3209 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3211 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3212 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3214 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3215 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3217 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3218 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3220 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3221 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3223 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3225 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3227 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3229 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3235 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3236 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3237 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3239 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3240 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3241 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3242 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3243 build errors in sieve.c.
3245 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3246 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3247 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3249 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3251 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3253 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3255 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3261 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3263 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3264 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3265 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3266 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3267 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3268 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3269 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3270 for iplsearch lookups.
3272 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3273 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3274 previously such lookups could never work.
3276 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3277 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3278 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3280 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3283 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3284 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3285 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3286 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3287 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3288 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3290 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3291 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3293 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3294 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3295 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3296 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3297 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3298 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3300 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3303 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3305 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3306 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3309 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3310 by clients under certain conditions.
3312 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3313 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3315 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3317 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3318 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3320 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3322 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3324 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3326 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3327 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3329 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3331 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3332 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3334 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3336 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3338 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3339 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3340 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3341 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3343 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3344 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3345 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3347 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3348 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3350 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3352 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3354 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3356 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3357 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3358 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3364 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3365 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3368 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3369 issue a MAIL command.
3371 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3373 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3375 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3376 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3377 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3378 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3379 item. This has been fixed.
3381 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3382 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3384 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3385 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3387 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3388 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3389 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3391 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3393 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3394 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3395 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3396 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3397 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3399 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3400 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3401 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3403 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3404 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3405 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3406 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3408 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3410 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3412 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3413 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3414 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3415 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3416 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3418 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3420 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3421 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3422 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3425 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3427 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3429 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3431 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3433 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3435 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3436 no_callout_flush is set.
3438 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3439 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3440 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3443 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3445 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3446 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3447 other ACL rejections are.
3449 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3450 with slight modification.
3452 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3453 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3455 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3456 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3459 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3460 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3462 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3464 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3465 expansion side effects.
3467 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3468 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3469 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3472 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3473 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3474 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3476 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3477 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3478 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3479 were accidentally chopped off.
3481 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3482 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3483 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3484 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3485 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3486 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3487 pipelining has not been advertised.
3489 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3491 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3492 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3493 This has been fixed.
3495 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3496 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3497 reported on Solaris.
3499 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3500 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3501 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3502 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3503 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3504 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3505 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3507 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3510 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3512 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3514 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3515 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3516 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3517 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3518 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3519 criteria to be more general.
3521 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3522 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3523 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3524 host_all_ignored option.
3526 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3527 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3528 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3529 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3530 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3531 is what is supposed to happen).
3533 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3534 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3535 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3536 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3537 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3540 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3541 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3542 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3543 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3544 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3545 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3548 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3550 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3551 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3553 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3554 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3556 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3558 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3560 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3561 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3562 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3563 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3564 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3565 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3566 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3567 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3568 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3569 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3570 least in a lot of common cases.
3572 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3573 advertised in response to EHLO.
3579 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3580 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3582 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3583 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3585 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3586 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3587 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3589 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3590 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3591 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3592 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3593 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3599 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3600 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3603 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3604 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3605 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3607 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3608 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3609 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3610 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3611 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3612 rather than extend the field.
3618 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3619 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3620 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3621 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3624 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3625 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3626 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3628 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3629 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3630 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3632 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3633 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3634 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3637 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3638 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3639 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3640 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3641 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3642 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3643 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3644 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3645 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3646 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3647 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3649 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3652 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3653 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3654 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3655 ignores EPIPE as well.
3657 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3658 (quoted-printable decoding).
3660 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3661 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3663 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3665 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3667 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3669 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3670 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3672 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3675 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3676 miscellaneous code fixes
3678 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3681 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3682 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3683 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3684 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3685 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3686 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3687 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3688 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3690 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3691 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3692 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3693 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3695 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3696 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3697 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3698 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3699 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3700 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3701 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3702 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3703 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3705 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3708 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3709 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3710 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3711 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3712 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3713 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3714 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3715 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3717 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3718 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3721 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3722 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3723 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3724 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3725 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3726 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3727 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3728 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3729 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3730 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3731 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3732 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3733 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3735 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3736 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3737 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3738 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3739 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3740 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3741 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3743 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3744 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3745 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3746 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3747 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3748 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3749 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3750 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3751 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3752 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3754 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3755 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3756 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3757 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3758 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3760 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3761 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3762 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3763 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3764 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3765 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3766 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3768 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3769 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3770 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3771 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3772 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3773 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3776 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3777 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3778 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3781 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3782 if any retry times were supplied.
3784 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3785 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3786 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3788 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3790 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3792 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3793 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3794 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3795 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3796 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3797 before) are ignored.
3799 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3800 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3802 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3803 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3804 committing the later change.]
3806 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3807 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3808 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3809 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3810 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3811 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3812 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3813 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3814 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3816 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3817 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3818 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3819 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3820 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3821 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3822 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3823 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3824 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3826 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3827 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3828 hammering the server.
3830 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3831 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3833 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3835 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3836 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3837 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3839 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3840 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3841 one case where this was not true.
3843 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3844 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3845 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3846 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3849 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3850 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3851 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3852 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3853 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3854 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3855 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3856 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3857 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3860 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3861 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3862 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3863 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3865 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3866 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3868 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3869 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3870 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3872 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3874 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3876 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3878 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3879 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3880 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3881 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3883 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3884 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3886 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3887 be meaningful with "accept".
3889 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3890 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3892 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3893 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3894 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3896 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3897 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3898 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3899 there is data to show.
3900 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3902 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3903 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3904 as well as the number of messages.
3906 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3907 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3908 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3910 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3911 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3912 have a flag are now skipped.
3914 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3915 Added the -emptyok flag.
3917 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3918 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3920 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3921 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3922 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3924 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3927 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3928 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3930 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3932 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3933 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3935 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3937 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3938 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3939 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3940 contravention of the specifications.
3942 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3943 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3944 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3946 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3947 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3948 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3950 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3952 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3953 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3954 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3955 some point in the past.
3957 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3958 transport during callout processing was broken.
3960 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3961 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3963 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3964 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3966 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3967 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3969 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3975 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3976 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3978 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3979 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3980 there is data to show.
3981 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3983 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3984 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3986 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3987 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3989 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3990 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3992 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3993 submissions from trusted users.
3995 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3996 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3998 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3999 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4000 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4001 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4002 there is now a framework to start from.
4004 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4005 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4006 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4008 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4010 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4012 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4014 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4015 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4016 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4018 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4021 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4022 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4023 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4025 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4026 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4027 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4030 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4031 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4032 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4033 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4034 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4036 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4037 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4039 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4041 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4042 operations in malware.c.
4044 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4047 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4048 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4049 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4052 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4053 statements to "add_header".
4055 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4056 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4058 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4059 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4062 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4066 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4067 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4068 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4071 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4072 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4074 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4075 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4077 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4078 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4079 any possible encoding problems.
4081 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4082 but not after initializing Perl.
4084 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4085 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4086 apparently, which is not desirable.
4088 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4091 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4094 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4096 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4097 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4098 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4099 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4101 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4102 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4103 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4105 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4106 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4107 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4110 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4111 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4112 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4113 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4114 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4120 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4121 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4123 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4126 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4127 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4128 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4129 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4130 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4131 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4132 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4133 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4136 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4138 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4139 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4140 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4142 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4143 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4144 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4147 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4148 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4150 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4151 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4152 option (which defaults to 0600).
4154 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4156 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4157 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4158 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4159 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4160 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4161 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4162 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4164 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4170 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4171 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4172 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4173 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4174 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4175 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4178 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4179 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4181 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4183 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4184 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4185 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4186 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4187 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4190 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4191 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4193 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4194 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4195 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4196 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4197 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4199 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4200 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4201 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4202 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4204 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4205 be the same on different OS.
4207 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4210 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4211 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4213 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4216 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4217 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4218 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4219 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4220 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4221 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4224 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4225 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4226 when Exim was called.
4228 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4229 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4231 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4232 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4233 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4234 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4236 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4237 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4238 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4239 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4242 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4243 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4244 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4246 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4247 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4248 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4250 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4253 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4254 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4255 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4256 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4257 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4258 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4259 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4260 values from the SRV records were lost.
4262 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4263 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4264 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4266 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4267 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4268 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4270 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4271 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4272 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4273 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4274 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4275 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4276 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4277 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4278 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4279 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4281 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4282 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4283 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4285 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4286 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4288 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4289 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4290 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4291 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4294 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4295 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4296 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4298 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4299 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4300 PH/23 above applies.
4302 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4303 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4304 (for which there is an explicit test).
4306 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4308 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4309 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4310 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4311 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4312 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4314 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4315 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4316 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4317 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4319 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4320 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4321 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4323 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4325 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4327 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4328 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4329 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4331 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4332 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4333 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4334 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4335 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4337 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4338 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4339 the message gets confusing).
4341 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4342 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4343 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4344 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4346 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4347 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4348 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4349 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4352 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4353 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4354 the different processes.
4356 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4358 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4360 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4361 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4363 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4364 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4366 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4367 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4368 messages matching specified criteria.
4370 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4372 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4373 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4375 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4376 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4377 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4378 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4379 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4380 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4381 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4382 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4383 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4384 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4386 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4387 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4388 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4390 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4392 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4393 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4394 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4395 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4396 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4397 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4398 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4401 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4402 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4404 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4406 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4408 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4410 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4411 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4412 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4413 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4414 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4415 size of the count of files.
4417 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4419 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4422 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4423 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4424 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4425 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4427 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4428 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4429 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4431 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4432 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4433 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4434 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4435 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4437 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4438 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4440 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4441 will now be deprecated.
4443 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4445 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4446 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4447 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4449 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4450 with very large, slow to parse queues
4452 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4454 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4456 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4457 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4458 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4461 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4462 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4463 Sieve code now uses this.
4465 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4466 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4468 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4469 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4471 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4473 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4474 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4475 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4476 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4477 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4479 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4480 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4481 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4482 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4484 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4486 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4488 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4489 is preferred over IPv4.
4491 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4492 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4493 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4494 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4495 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4496 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4497 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4499 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4500 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4501 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4503 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4505 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4506 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4507 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4508 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4509 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4510 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4511 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4512 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4513 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4514 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4515 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4517 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4518 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4519 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4525 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4527 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4528 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4530 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4531 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4532 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4534 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4536 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4539 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4542 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4543 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4544 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4547 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4548 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4550 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4551 inside the third argument.
4553 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4554 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4557 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4558 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4560 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4561 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4563 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4565 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4566 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4569 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4571 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4572 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4573 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4574 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4575 identical. For example:
4577 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4579 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4580 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4581 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4583 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4584 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4585 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4586 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4588 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4589 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4590 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4593 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4595 o fixes some comments
4596 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4597 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4598 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4599 and documents the missing references header update
4603 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4604 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4607 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4608 Electronic Mail") by including:
4610 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4612 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4613 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4614 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4615 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4616 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4618 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4620 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4622 The auto-replied keyword:
4624 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4625 message by an automatic process,
4627 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4629 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4630 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4632 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4633 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4636 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4637 to the default Received: header definition.
4639 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4641 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4642 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4643 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4645 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4646 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4647 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4649 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4650 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4651 and treats the condition as false.
4653 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4655 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4656 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4657 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4658 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4659 not changing the active code.
4661 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4662 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4664 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4665 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4667 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4670 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4671 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4672 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4673 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4674 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4675 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4676 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4677 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4678 the text comparison.
4680 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4681 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4682 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4683 The same fix has been applied.
4689 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4690 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4693 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4694 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4696 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4698 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4699 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4700 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4701 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4702 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4704 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4705 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4706 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4707 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4710 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4718 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4719 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4721 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4723 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4725 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4726 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4727 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4729 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4730 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4731 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4733 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4734 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4737 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4738 ${stat: expansion item.
4740 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4741 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4743 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4744 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4747 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4749 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4752 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4753 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4755 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4757 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4758 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4759 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4760 the end of the subprocess.
4762 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4763 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4764 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4765 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4766 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4768 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4770 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4772 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4773 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4775 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4777 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4779 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4780 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4783 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4785 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4786 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4787 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4789 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4790 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4792 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4793 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4795 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4796 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4798 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4799 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4801 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4802 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4803 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4804 contributed by a Radius user.
4806 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4807 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4809 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4810 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4812 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4815 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4816 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4819 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4820 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4821 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4822 header lines when this was not necessary.
4824 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4826 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4827 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4828 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4831 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4834 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4835 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4836 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4837 return code was incorrect.
4839 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4841 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4843 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4845 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4847 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4848 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4849 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4850 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4851 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4854 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4856 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4857 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4858 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4859 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4860 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4861 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4862 which is clearly wrong.
4864 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4866 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4867 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4868 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4871 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4872 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4874 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4876 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4877 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4879 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4880 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4882 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4883 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4885 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4886 recipients, not senders.
4888 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4889 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4891 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4893 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4895 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4896 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4897 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4898 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4900 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4902 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4903 clock is set back in time.
4905 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4906 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4908 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4909 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4911 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4912 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4915 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4916 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4919 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4922 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4924 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4925 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4926 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4928 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4929 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4930 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4931 helo verification defer as a failure.
4933 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4934 actual error message.
4940 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4942 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4943 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4944 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4945 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4947 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4949 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4950 can still be requested.
4952 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4953 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4954 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4955 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4957 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4958 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4959 circumstances, but probably never did.
4961 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4962 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4963 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4966 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4968 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4969 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4971 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4973 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4975 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4976 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4977 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4978 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4979 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4980 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4982 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4983 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4984 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4985 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4986 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4987 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4989 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4990 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4992 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4993 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4995 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4996 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4998 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5000 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5002 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5004 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5006 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5008 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5010 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5012 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5013 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5014 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5016 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5017 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5018 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5019 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5021 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5022 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5023 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5025 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5026 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5027 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5028 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5030 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5031 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5034 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5035 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5036 should work with maildirs and everything.
5038 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5039 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5041 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5044 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5045 function for BDB 4.3.
5047 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5049 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5050 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5053 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5054 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5055 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5056 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5057 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5058 formatting function string_vformat().
5060 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5061 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5062 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5063 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5064 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5065 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5066 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5067 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5069 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5070 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5073 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5074 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5076 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5077 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5078 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5079 test. It is now used for both.
5081 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5082 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5083 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5084 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5085 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5086 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5088 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5089 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5090 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5093 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5094 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5095 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5097 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5098 experimental DomainKeys support:
5100 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5101 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5102 the control was given.
5104 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5106 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5108 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5110 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5111 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5112 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5115 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5116 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5117 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5118 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5119 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5120 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5123 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5124 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5125 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5126 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5127 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5128 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5130 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5131 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5132 do -d+all out of habit.
5134 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5135 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5138 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5139 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5140 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5141 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5142 record types that Exim uses.
5144 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5145 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5146 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5147 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5148 non-existent file that was broken.
5150 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5151 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5153 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5154 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5155 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5157 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5159 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5160 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5161 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5162 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5163 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5166 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5167 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5168 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5169 at a slight CPU cost.
5171 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5172 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5174 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5177 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5179 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5180 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5186 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5187 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5189 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5191 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5193 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5194 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5196 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5197 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5198 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5199 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5200 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5201 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5204 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5205 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5206 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5207 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5210 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5211 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5212 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5213 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5214 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5215 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5216 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5219 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5220 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5222 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5223 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5224 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5225 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5226 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5227 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5229 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5230 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5231 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5232 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5234 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5237 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5238 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5240 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5241 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5242 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5243 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5246 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5248 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5249 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5251 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5252 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5253 to what was transported.)
5255 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5257 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5258 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5259 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5260 spamd_address settings.
5262 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5263 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5264 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5265 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5266 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5268 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5270 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5271 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5272 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5273 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5274 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5276 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5277 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5279 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5280 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5281 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5282 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5283 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5284 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5285 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5288 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5289 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5290 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5291 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5292 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5293 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5294 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5297 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5299 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5300 driver and ACL definitions.
5302 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5303 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5305 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5306 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5307 understands it better than I do:
5309 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5310 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5312 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5313 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5314 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5315 => three warnings about OTP not working
5316 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5318 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5319 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5320 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5321 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5323 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5324 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5326 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5327 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5328 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5330 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5331 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5334 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5335 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5338 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5339 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5340 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5342 warn !verify = sender
5343 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5345 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5346 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5348 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5350 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5351 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5353 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5354 nomenclature these days.)
5356 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5357 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5359 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5360 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5361 . First host does not offer TLS;
5362 . First host accepts first address;
5363 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5364 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5365 . Second host accepts second address.
5366 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5367 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5370 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5371 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5372 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5373 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5374 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5376 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5377 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5379 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5380 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5382 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5383 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5384 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5386 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5387 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5390 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5392 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5393 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5394 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5395 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5396 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5397 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5398 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5400 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5401 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5402 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5403 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5404 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5406 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5407 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5410 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5411 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5412 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5413 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5414 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5415 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5417 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5419 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5420 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5421 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5422 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5423 printable escape sequences.
5425 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5426 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5429 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5430 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5433 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5434 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5435 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5436 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5437 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5439 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5440 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5441 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5443 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5445 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5446 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5449 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5450 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5451 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5452 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5453 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5454 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5455 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5456 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5457 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5460 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5461 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5462 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5463 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5467 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5468 ----------------------------------------
5470 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5471 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5472 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5473 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5474 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5475 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5478 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5479 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5480 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5481 historical information.
5487 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5489 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5490 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5492 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5493 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5496 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5497 filter fails to execute.
5499 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5500 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5501 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5502 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5503 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5505 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5507 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5508 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5509 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5510 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5512 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5513 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5514 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5515 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5516 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5518 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5520 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5522 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5523 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5524 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5525 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5527 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5528 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5529 sender verification.
5531 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5532 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5534 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5536 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5539 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5540 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5542 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5543 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5545 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5546 information about exactly what failed.
5548 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5550 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5551 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5552 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5554 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5555 It is now set to "smtps".
5557 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5558 ignore_target_hosts.
5560 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5561 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5562 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5563 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5566 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5567 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5568 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5570 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5571 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5572 wake it up if nothing else does.
5574 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5575 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5576 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5579 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5580 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5582 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5584 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5585 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5586 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5587 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5588 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5589 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5590 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5591 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5593 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5594 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5595 than one IP address.
5597 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5598 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5599 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5600 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5602 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5603 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5604 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5605 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5606 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5609 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5610 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5611 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5612 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5614 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5615 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5618 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5619 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5620 $sender_host_address.
5622 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5623 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5624 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5625 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5626 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5629 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5631 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5632 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5634 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5635 just the host names, not the priorities.
5637 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5638 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5639 controlled by a keyword.
5641 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5642 multiple records are returned.
5644 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5645 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5648 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5650 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5651 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5653 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5654 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5655 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5657 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5659 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5661 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5663 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5664 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5665 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5666 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5667 because the tests only now provoked it.
5669 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5670 (this can affect the format of dates).
5672 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5673 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5674 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5675 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5677 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5679 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5680 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5681 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5682 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5684 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5685 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5686 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5688 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5691 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5692 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5693 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5694 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5695 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5696 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5699 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5700 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5701 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5704 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5705 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5706 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5708 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5709 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5710 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5711 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5712 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5713 so I produce this patch..."
5715 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5716 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5719 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5720 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5721 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5722 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5725 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5727 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5728 long debug lines gets shown.
5730 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5731 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5733 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5735 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5736 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5737 of $primary_hostname.
5739 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5740 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5741 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5742 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5743 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5744 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5745 by change 4.50/55 above.
5747 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5748 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5749 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5750 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5751 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5752 running as the user.
5755 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5756 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5757 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5760 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5761 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5763 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5764 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5765 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5766 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5767 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5769 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5770 This has been fixed.
5772 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5773 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5774 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5775 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5778 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5780 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5781 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5782 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5783 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5785 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5786 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5788 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5789 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5790 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5792 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5793 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5794 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5797 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5798 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5799 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5801 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5802 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5803 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5804 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5806 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5807 during host lookups.
5809 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5810 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5812 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5814 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5815 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5816 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5817 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5818 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5821 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5822 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5824 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5825 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5826 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5828 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5830 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5831 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5832 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5833 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5834 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5835 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5838 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5839 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5840 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5841 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5842 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5844 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5847 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5849 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5850 "vacation" handling.
5852 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5853 OS variants using glibc.
5855 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5858 ----------------------------------------------------
5859 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5860 ----------------------------------------------------
5866 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5867 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5870 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5871 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5874 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5875 filter fails to execute.
5877 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5878 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5879 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5880 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5881 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5883 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5884 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5885 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5886 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5888 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5889 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5890 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5891 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5892 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5894 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5896 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5897 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5898 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5899 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5901 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5902 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5903 sender verification.
5905 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5906 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5908 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5909 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5911 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5912 ignore_target_hosts.
5914 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5915 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5916 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5917 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5920 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5921 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5922 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5924 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5925 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5926 wake it up if nothing else does.
5928 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5929 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5930 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5933 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5934 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5936 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5938 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5939 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5942 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5943 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5946 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5947 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5948 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5949 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5950 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5953 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5954 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5957 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5958 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5959 $sender_host_address.
5961 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5963 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5964 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5965 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5967 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5970 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5971 (this can affect the format of dates).
5973 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5974 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5975 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5976 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5978 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5979 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5980 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5982 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5983 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5984 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5985 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5987 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5988 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5989 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5991 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5994 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5995 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5996 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5997 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5998 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5999 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6002 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6003 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6004 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6005 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6008 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6009 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6010 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6011 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6012 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6013 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6014 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6016 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6017 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6018 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6019 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6020 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6021 running as the user.
6024 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6025 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6026 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6029 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6030 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6031 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6032 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6033 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6035 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6036 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6037 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6038 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6041 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6042 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6043 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6044 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6045 because the tests only now provoked it.
6051 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6052 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6053 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6054 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6055 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6056 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6057 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6059 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6060 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6063 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6065 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6067 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6068 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6071 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6072 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6073 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6074 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6075 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6077 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6078 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6080 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6082 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6084 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6087 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6088 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6090 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6091 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6092 affecting debugging statements).
6094 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6096 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6097 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6098 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6099 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6100 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6101 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6102 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6103 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6104 after the received time, and all would be well.
6106 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6107 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6108 condition in an expansion string.
6110 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6112 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6113 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6114 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6115 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6116 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6117 job under whatever limits there are.
6119 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6121 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6124 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6125 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6126 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6127 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6130 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6131 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6132 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6133 binary data in such strings.
6135 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6137 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6138 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6139 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6140 failure, which is pointless.
6142 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6144 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6146 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6147 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6148 Sender: header lines.
6150 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6151 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6152 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6154 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6155 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6156 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6157 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6158 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6161 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6162 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6163 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6164 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6165 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6167 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6168 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6169 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6172 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6173 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6175 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6176 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6178 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6180 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6182 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6184 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6187 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6189 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6191 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6192 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6193 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6194 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6196 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6197 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6203 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6204 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6205 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6207 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6208 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6209 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6210 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6211 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6212 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6214 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6215 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6216 verification failure".
6218 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6219 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6220 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6221 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6223 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6224 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6225 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6226 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6227 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6228 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6229 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6230 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6231 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6232 treated as a timeout.
6234 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6235 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6236 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6237 not set for Exim filters).
6239 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6240 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6241 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6243 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6245 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6246 try to make them clearer.
6248 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6249 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6251 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6253 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6255 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6256 only the Cygwin environment.
6258 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6259 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6260 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6261 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6262 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6264 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6265 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6266 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6267 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6268 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6269 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6270 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6272 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6273 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6275 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6277 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6278 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6279 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6281 To: susanne@some.where
6283 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6284 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6285 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6286 of addresses in From: header lines).
6288 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6289 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6290 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6292 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6293 treated as non-personal.
6295 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6296 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6298 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6300 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6302 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6303 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6304 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6306 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6307 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6309 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6310 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6311 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6312 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6313 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6314 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6316 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6317 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6318 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6319 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6320 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6321 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6322 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6323 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6325 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6327 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6328 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6330 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6331 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6332 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6334 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6335 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6337 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6338 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6339 rather than long int.
6341 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6343 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6349 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6350 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6351 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6352 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6353 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6354 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6360 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6361 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6363 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6364 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6365 socklen_t is defined.
6367 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6370 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6373 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6374 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6375 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6376 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6377 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6379 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6380 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6381 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6382 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6384 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6385 of flapping under certain conditions.
6387 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6388 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6389 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6391 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6393 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6395 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6396 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6397 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6398 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6400 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6401 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6402 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6403 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6404 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6405 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6406 preserved with the message after it was received.
6408 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6409 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6410 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6411 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6412 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6413 test suite worked just fine.
6415 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6416 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6417 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6419 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6420 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6423 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6424 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6425 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6426 does not fully solve it.
6428 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6429 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6430 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6431 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6432 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6434 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6435 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6436 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6438 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6439 string, for example:
6441 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6443 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6444 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6445 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6446 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6447 the routers could not see them.
6449 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6450 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6452 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6453 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6456 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6457 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6458 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6459 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6460 that needed quoting.
6462 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6463 was not being matched caselessly.
6465 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6468 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6469 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6470 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6471 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6472 when use_sender is false.
6474 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6476 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6478 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6480 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6481 the configuration file.
6483 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6484 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6486 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6488 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6489 bytes in the message body.
6491 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6492 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6495 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6497 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6499 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6500 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6501 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6502 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6509 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6510 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6512 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6513 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6514 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6515 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6516 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6518 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6519 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6521 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6522 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6523 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6525 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6526 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6527 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6529 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6532 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6533 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6534 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6535 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6536 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6537 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6538 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6544 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6545 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6546 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6547 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6548 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6549 default (and expected) setting.
6551 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6552 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6553 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6554 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6556 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6557 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6559 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6562 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6563 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6564 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6565 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6566 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6567 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6569 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6570 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6571 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6573 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6574 part (NOT match_host).
6576 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6578 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6579 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6580 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6581 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6582 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6583 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6584 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6585 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6586 the same named file.
6588 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6589 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6592 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6593 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6594 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6595 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6598 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6599 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6600 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6602 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6604 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6606 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6608 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6609 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6611 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6612 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6613 before starting the TLS session.
6615 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6617 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6618 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6620 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6621 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6622 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6623 colon in the middle).
6629 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6630 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6631 multiple configurations are in use.
6633 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6634 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6635 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6636 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6637 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6638 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6640 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6641 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6643 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6644 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6645 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6647 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6648 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6651 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6652 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6654 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6656 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6657 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6659 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6667 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6668 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6669 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6670 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6671 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6673 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6676 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6677 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6678 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6679 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6680 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6681 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6683 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6684 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6685 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6686 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6687 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6688 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6689 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6692 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6693 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6694 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6695 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6696 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6698 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6700 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6701 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6702 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6704 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6706 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6707 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6708 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6711 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6712 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6714 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6715 Three changes have been made:
6717 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6718 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6719 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6720 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6721 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6723 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6726 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6727 the modified behaviour.
6733 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6736 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6737 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6739 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6740 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6741 try to track down a specific problem.
6743 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6744 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6745 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6747 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6750 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6751 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6752 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6753 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6754 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6755 some earlier ones do not.
6757 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6759 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6760 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6761 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6762 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6763 address literals are enabled, of course).
6765 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6767 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6768 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6769 by a command such as
6773 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6775 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6777 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6778 remained set. It is now erased.
6780 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6781 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6783 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6784 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6785 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6786 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6787 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6788 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6789 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6790 appropriate error code.
6792 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6793 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6794 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6795 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6796 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6797 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6799 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6800 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6801 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6803 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6804 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6805 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6806 terminate the header.
6808 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6809 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6810 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6812 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6813 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6814 (4.30/29). In particular:
6816 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6819 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6820 to write a maildirsize file.
6822 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6823 the transport, the new value overrides.
6825 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6828 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6829 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6830 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6833 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6834 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6835 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6838 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6839 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6840 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6842 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6843 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6846 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6847 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6848 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6850 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6852 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6854 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6856 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6857 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6860 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6861 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6862 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6863 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6864 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6865 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6866 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6869 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6870 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6871 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6872 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6873 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6876 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6877 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6878 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6879 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6880 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6881 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6882 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6883 cached value only when the same options are set.
6885 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6887 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6888 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6889 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6890 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6891 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6893 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6894 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6895 it is clearly obsolete.
6897 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6900 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6901 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6902 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6905 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6906 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6907 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6908 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6909 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6911 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6912 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6913 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6914 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6916 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6918 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6920 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6921 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6924 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6925 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6926 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6927 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6928 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6929 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6932 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6933 with the -f command-line option.
6935 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6936 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6937 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6938 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6939 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6940 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6942 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6943 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6946 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6947 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6948 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6949 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6950 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6951 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6952 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6953 buffer is too small.
6955 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6956 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6958 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6959 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6960 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6961 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6962 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6963 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6964 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6965 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6966 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6968 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6969 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6970 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6972 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6973 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6976 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6977 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6978 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6979 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6980 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6982 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6983 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6984 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6985 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6988 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6990 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6992 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6993 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6995 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6996 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6997 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6999 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7000 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7001 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7002 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7003 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7005 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7006 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7007 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7008 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7009 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7010 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7011 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7013 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7014 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7015 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7016 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7017 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7018 the test of how many are available.
7020 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7021 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7022 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7023 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7024 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7025 new message is started.
7027 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7028 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7030 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7031 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7033 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7034 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7035 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7038 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7039 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7040 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7041 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7042 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7043 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7044 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7046 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7047 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7048 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7049 interpreted as octal.
7051 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7054 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7055 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7056 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7057 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7058 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7059 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7061 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7062 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7063 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7064 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7066 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7067 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7068 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7069 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7071 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7072 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7075 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7076 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7078 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7080 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7081 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7082 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7083 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7085 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7086 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7087 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7088 supplied", which is not helpful.
7090 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7091 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7092 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7094 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7095 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7096 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7097 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7098 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7099 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7100 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7101 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7103 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7104 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7105 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7106 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7107 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7109 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7110 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7111 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7112 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7113 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7114 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7116 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7117 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7118 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7120 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7122 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7123 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7124 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7127 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7129 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7130 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7131 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7132 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7133 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7134 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7135 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7136 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7138 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7139 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7140 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7141 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7142 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7144 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7147 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7148 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7149 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7150 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7151 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7152 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7153 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7154 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7155 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7161 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7162 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7163 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7165 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7168 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7169 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7170 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7172 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7173 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7174 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7175 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7176 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7177 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7179 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7180 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7181 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7182 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7183 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7184 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7185 the Exim test suite.
7187 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7188 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7189 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7190 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7192 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7193 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7194 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7195 specify it in this variable.
7197 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7198 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7199 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7200 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7202 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7203 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7204 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7205 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7207 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7208 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7209 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7210 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7211 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7213 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7215 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7218 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7219 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7220 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7221 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7222 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7224 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7225 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7227 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7228 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7229 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7230 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7231 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7233 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7234 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7236 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7237 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7238 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7240 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7241 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7243 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7244 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7246 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7247 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7248 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7250 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7251 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7253 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7254 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7255 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7256 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7258 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7260 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7261 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7262 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7263 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7265 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7267 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7268 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7270 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7272 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7273 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7274 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7275 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7276 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7277 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7279 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7281 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7282 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7285 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7287 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7288 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7290 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7291 550 Sender verify failed
7293 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7294 the final line of the response.
7296 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7297 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7298 all other user lookups.
7300 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7303 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7304 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7305 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7306 result into an int without checking.
7308 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7309 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7310 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7312 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7313 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7314 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7315 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7317 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7320 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7321 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7323 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7324 to the empty sender.
7326 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7327 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7328 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7329 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7330 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7331 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7332 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7335 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7336 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7337 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7338 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7341 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7342 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7344 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7347 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7348 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7350 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7352 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7353 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7356 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7357 as soon as it is encountered.
7359 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7361 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7364 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7365 recognizes a tab character.
7367 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7368 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7369 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7370 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7372 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7374 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7377 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7379 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7381 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7382 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7385 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7386 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7387 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7388 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7389 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7391 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7392 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7394 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7395 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7396 list (.included file names were always shown).
7398 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7399 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7400 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7403 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7404 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7406 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7408 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7410 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7412 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7413 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7414 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7415 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7416 failures to open the logs.
7418 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7419 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7420 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7421 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7422 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7423 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7424 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7430 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7431 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7432 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7435 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7436 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7437 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7439 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7440 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7441 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7443 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7444 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7445 causing some misleading effects.
7447 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7448 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7449 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7451 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7452 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7453 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7454 queue-runner function directly.
7460 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7463 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7464 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7465 was always written to the default place.
7467 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7468 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7469 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7471 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7473 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7475 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7476 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7477 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7479 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7480 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7483 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7484 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7485 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7487 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7488 command line option is disabled.
7490 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7491 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7493 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7495 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7497 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7498 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7500 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7502 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7503 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7504 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7505 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7506 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7507 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7509 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7510 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7513 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7514 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7516 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7517 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7519 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7520 received was valid base64.
7522 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7523 name of the variable that was being set.
7525 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7527 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7528 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7529 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7530 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7531 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7532 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7534 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7536 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7537 nor realm was specified.
7539 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7540 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7541 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7542 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7544 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7545 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7546 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7548 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7549 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7550 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7552 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7553 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7554 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7555 some systems use these upper case variants.
7557 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7558 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7559 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7560 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7562 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7564 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7565 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7567 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7568 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7571 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7573 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7574 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7575 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7576 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7578 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7581 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7582 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7583 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7585 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7586 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7588 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7589 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7590 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7591 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7593 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7594 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7595 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7597 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7599 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7600 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7601 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7602 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7605 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7606 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7607 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7609 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7611 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7612 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7614 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7615 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7617 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7618 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7619 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7620 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7621 when emails are that large.
7628 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7629 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7631 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7632 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7633 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7635 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7636 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7637 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7639 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7640 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7641 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7642 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7643 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7645 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7646 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7647 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7648 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7649 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7652 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7653 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7654 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7655 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7656 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7657 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7658 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7659 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7660 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7661 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7662 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7663 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7664 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7665 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7667 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7668 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7671 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7672 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7673 error should be diagnosed.
7675 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7676 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7677 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7678 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7679 appeared instead of "NULL".
7681 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7682 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7683 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7684 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7685 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7686 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7689 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7690 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7691 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7697 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7698 or receiver verification errors.
7700 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7703 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7704 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7705 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7706 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7708 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7709 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7710 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7711 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7712 shouldn't happen again.
7714 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7715 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7716 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7718 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7719 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7721 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7723 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7724 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7726 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7727 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7730 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7731 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7732 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7734 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7735 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7736 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7737 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7739 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7740 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7741 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7742 to define what should happen).
7744 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7745 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7746 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7748 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7750 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7752 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7753 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7755 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7756 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7757 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7758 structure in all cases.
7760 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7761 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7762 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7763 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7765 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7766 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7769 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7770 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7772 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7773 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7775 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7776 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7777 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7779 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7780 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7781 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7783 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7784 the book and for uniformity.
7786 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7788 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7789 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7790 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7791 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7792 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7793 non-existent command as the problem.
7795 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7796 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7797 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7799 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7801 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7802 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7803 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7805 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7806 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7807 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7808 timestamps using strftime().
7810 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7811 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7813 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7814 transport-time rewrites.
7816 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7817 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7818 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7819 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7821 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7822 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7824 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7825 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7826 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7827 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7830 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7831 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7832 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7833 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7834 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7835 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7836 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7838 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7839 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7840 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7841 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7842 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7844 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7845 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7846 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7847 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7848 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7849 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7850 remaining text gets split now.
7852 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7853 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7854 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7855 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7857 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7858 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7859 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7860 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7863 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7864 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7865 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7866 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7867 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7868 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7869 passed through if needed.
7871 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7872 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7873 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7874 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7875 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7876 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7878 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7879 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7880 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7881 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7882 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7884 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7885 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7886 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7887 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7888 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7890 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7891 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7894 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7895 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7896 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7897 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7898 mayhem of various kinds.
7900 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7901 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7902 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7903 the right test for positive values.
7905 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7906 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7907 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7908 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7909 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7910 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7911 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7912 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7913 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7914 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7917 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7920 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7921 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7924 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7925 the existing equality matching.
7927 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7928 dealing with inode numbers.
7930 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7931 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7932 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7934 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7935 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7936 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7937 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7940 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7941 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7942 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7943 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7944 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7945 relay addresses has also been removed.
7947 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7949 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7950 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7951 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7953 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7954 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7955 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7956 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7957 processing applies to CR:
7959 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7960 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7962 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7963 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7964 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7965 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7967 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7968 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7969 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7971 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7972 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7973 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7974 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7975 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7976 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7979 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7982 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7983 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7984 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7985 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7988 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7990 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7992 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7994 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7995 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7996 not considered personal.
7998 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8000 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8002 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8004 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8005 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8006 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8007 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8008 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8009 header lines, and spool format errors.
8011 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8012 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8013 for more flexibility.
8015 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8016 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8017 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8019 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8022 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8023 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8024 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8025 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8026 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8027 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8028 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8029 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8030 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8032 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8033 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8034 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8035 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8036 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8037 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8038 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8040 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8041 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8042 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8044 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8045 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8046 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8047 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8048 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8049 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8050 instead of killing the process with assert().
8052 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8053 than Unicode encoding.
8055 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8056 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8057 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8058 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8060 77. Added process_log_path.
8062 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8063 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8065 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8066 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8068 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8069 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8070 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8072 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8073 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8074 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8075 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8076 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8079 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8080 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8083 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8084 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8085 they will be used during message reception.
8091 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.