1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Use fewer forks & execs for sending many messages to a single host.
9 By passing back more info from the transport to the delivery process,
10 we can loop there. A two-phase queue run will benefit, particularly for
11 mailinglist and smarthost cases.
13 JH/02 Add transaction support for hintsdbs. The providers supported are tdb and
14 sqlite. Transactions are used for the wait-transport and retry DBs.
15 They imply locking internal to the DB. We no longer need a separate
16 lockfile, can keep the DB handle open for extended periods, yet
17 potentially benefit from concurrency on non-conflicting record uses.
19 JH/03 With dkim_verify_minimal, avoid calling the DKIM ACL after the first
22 JH/04 Remove the docs and support scripts dealing with conversion of Exim
23 version 3 installations.
25 JH/05 Fix hintsdb support for dbmjz when compiled using sqlite3. Previously
26 the backend support assumed keys would be simple C strings, but dbmjz
27 uses keys with embedded NUL bytes. The builtin hintsdb use is unaffected,
28 but installations using dbmjz will need to rebuild those DBs.
30 JH/06 Bug 1141: When operating a continued-connection transport, verify that
31 the interface option, if specified, evaluates to match the connection.
32 Previously, a queued message for the same host was sent without checking.
34 JH/07 Bug 3106: Fix coding in SPA authenticator. A macro argument was not
35 properly parenthesized, resulting in a logic error. While the simple
36 fix was provided by Andrew Aitchison, the over-large code block resulting
37 from this macro made me want to replace it with a real function so more
38 extensive rework becamse needed.
40 JH/08 The output of "exim -bV" now includes lookup types built as dynamic-load
43 JH/09 Not a change, but worthy of note: There is no test coverage of the
44 heimdall-gssapi authenticator driver. It does build, though with (on at
45 least one platform) library version conflicts with the gsasl auth
46 driver). Confidence in its operation is lacking.
48 JH/10 Bug 3108: On platforms not providing strchrnul() [OpenBSD] supply a proper
49 prototype (as well as implementaton). Previously, a return type "int"
50 was assumed, resulting in type-conversion bugs when int and pointer had
51 different size. This resulted in crashes while processing DKIM signatures
52 of received messages. Identification and fix from Qualys Security.
54 JH/11 Lookups built as dynamic-load modules which support a single lookup
55 type are now only loaded if required by the config. Previously all lookup
56 modules present in the modules directory were loaded; this now applies
57 only to those supporting multiple types.
59 JH/12 Bug 3112: Fix logging of config-file position for "obsolete lookup
60 syntax". Previously, the end of the top-level file was reported.
62 JH/13 Bug 3120: Fix parsing of DKIM pubkey DNS record. Previously a crafted
63 record could crash the meesage recieve process. Investigation by
69 JH/01 Support list of dkim results in the dkim_status ACL condition, making
70 it more usable in the data ACL.
72 JH/02 Bug 3040: Handle error on close of the spool data file during reception.
73 Previously This was only logged, on the assumption that errors would be
74 seen for a previous fflush(). However, a fuse filesystem has been
75 reported as showing this an error for the fclose(). The spool is now in
76 an uncertain state, and we have logged and responded acceptance. Change
77 this to respond with a temp-reject, wipe spoolfiles, and log the error
80 JH/03 Bug 3030: Fix handling of DNS servfail respons for DANE TLSA. When hit
81 during a recipient verify callout, a QUIT command was attempted on the
82 now-closed callout channel, causing a paniclog entry.
84 JH/04 Bug 3039: Fix handling of of an empty log_reject_target, with
85 a connection_reject log_selector, under tls_on_connect. Previously
86 with this combination, when the connect ACL rejected, a spurious
87 paniclog entry was made.
89 JH/05 Fix TLS resumption for TLS-on-connect. This was broken by the advent
90 of loadbalancer-detection for resumption, in 4.96 - which tries to
91 use the EHLO response. SMTPS does not have one at the time it is starting
92 TLS. Change the default for the smtp transport host_name_extract option
93 to be a static string, for TLS-on-connect cases; meaning that resumption
94 will always be attempted (unless deliberately overriden).
96 JH/06 Bug 3054: Fix dnsdb lookup for a TXT record with multiple chunks, with a
97 chunk-separator specification. This was broken by hardening introduced
100 JH/07 Bug 3050: Fix -bp for old message_id format spoolfiles. Previously it
101 included the -H with the id; this also messed up exiqgrep.
103 JH/08 Bug 3056: Tighten up parsing of DKIM DNS records. Previously, whitespace
104 was not properly skipped and empty elements would cause mis-parsing.
105 Tighten parsing of DKIM header records. Previously, all but lowercase
106 alpha chars would be ignored in potential tag names.
108 JH/09 Bug 3057: Add heuristic for spotting mistyped IPv6 addresses in lists
109 being searched. Previously we only had one for IPv4 addresses. Per the
110 documentation, the error results by default in a no-match result for the
111 list. It is logged if the unknown_in_list log_selector is used.
113 JH/10 Bug 3058: Ensure that a failing expansion in a router "set" option defers
114 the routing operation. Previously it would silently stop routing the
117 JH/11 Bug 3046: Fix queue-runs. Previously, the arrivel of a notification or
118 info-request event close in time to a scheduled run timer could result in
119 the latter being missed, and no further queue scheduled runs being
120 initiated. This ouwld be more likely on high-load systems.
122 JH/12 Refuse to accept a line "dot, LF" as end-of-DATA unless operating in
123 LF-only mode (as detected from the first header line). Previously we did
124 accept that in (normal) CRLF mode; this has been raised as a possible
125 attack scenario (under the name "smtp smuggling").
127 JH/13 Add an fdatasync call for the received message data file in spool, before
128 loggging reception and sending the SMTP ack. Previously we only flushed
129 the stdio buffer so there was still the possibility of a disk error.
131 JH/14 Bug 3061: Avoid a split log line when trying to rewrite a malformed
132 address. Previously, for the last address in a header line (commonly
133 there is only one) the terminating newline was part of the logged
136 JH/15 Bug 3061: Ensure a log line is written for a malformed address in a
137 header, when parsing for address-qualification. Previously one was only
138 written if there were rewrite rules.
140 JH/16 Two-phase queue runs are now reported in the daemon startup log line and
143 JH/17 Bug 3064: Fix combination of "-q<period> -R <recipients>". Introduction of
144 the multiple-queue-runners facility for 4.97 broke this, giving only a
145 one-time run of the queue.
147 JH/18 Bug 3068: Log a warning for use of deprecated syntax in query-style
150 JH/19 Fix TLS startup. When the last expansion done before the initiation of a
151 TLS session resulted in a forced-fail, a misleading error was logged for
152 the expansino of tls_certificates. This would affect the common case of
153 that option being set (main-section options) but not having any variable
154 parts. It could also potentially affect tls_privatekeys. The underlyding
155 coding errors go back to 4.90 but were only exposed in 4.97.
157 JH/20 Bug 3047: A recent (somewhere between 10.34 and 10.42) version of the
158 pcre2 library starting allocating 20kB rather than 112 bytes per match
159 call, which broke the 2GB total limitation on Exim's memory management
160 when a user had over 104207 messages stored and the appendfile
161 maildir_quota_directory_regex option is in use. Release the allocated
162 memory every thosand files to avoid this.
163 The same issue arises with the ACL regex condition, which is applied
164 to every line of a received message.
166 JH/21 Bug 3059: Fix crash in smtp transport. When running for a message for
167 which all recipients had been handled (itself an issue) a null-pointer
168 deref was done on trying to write a retry record. Fix that by counting
169 the outstanding recipients before trying to transmit the message.
170 The situation arose for a second MX try within a transport run, when the
171 first had perm-rejected a recipient (the only one for the connection, in
172 the case seen) during pipelining, and then closed the TCP connection.
173 The transport classified that as an I/O error, leaving the message
174 outstanding but having marked up the recipient as dealt-with. It then
175 tried another MX because of the I/O error. Fix this by converting the
176 message-level status to ok if there was a close but all recipients were
177 dealt with. Thanks to Wolfgand Breyha for debug runs.
179 JH/22 The ESMTP_LIMITS facility (RFC 9422) is promoted from experimental status
180 and is now controlled by the build-time option DISABLE_ESMTP_LIMITS.
182 JH/23 Bug 3066: Avoid leaking lookup database credentials to log.
184 JH/24 Bug 3081: Fix a delivery process crash. When the router "errors_to"
185 option specified a fixed address, later rewriting on that address would
186 trip on the configuration data being readonly. Instead of modifying
187 in-place, copy data. Found and fixed by Peter Benie.
189 JH/25 Bug 3079: Fix crash in dbmnz. When a key was present for zero-length
190 data a null pointer was followed. Find and testcase by Sebastian Bugge.
192 JH/26 Fix encoding for an AUTH parameter on a MAIL FROM command. Previously
193 decimal 127 chars were not encoded, and lowercase hex was used for
194 encoded values. Outstanding since at least 1999.
196 JH/27 Fix crash in logging. When a message with a large number of recipients
197 had been received, and logging of recipients is enabled, the buffer used
198 for logging could reach limit. A read using a null pointer would then
199 be done, resulting in a crash of the receiving process before an SMTP
200 ACK for the message was returned to the sending system. Duplicate
201 messages were created as a result.
202 Find and debug help by Mateusz Krawczyk
204 JH/28 Bug 3086: Fix exinext for ipv6. Change the format of keys in the retry
205 DB, wrapping transport record bare-ip "host names" and ipv6
206 "host addresses" in square-brackets. This makes the parsing that
207 exinext does more reliable.
209 JH/29 Bug 3087: Fix SRS encode. A zero-length quoted element in the local-part
212 JH/30 Bug 3029: Avoid feeding Resent-From: to DMARC.
214 JH/31 Bug 3027: For -bh / -bhc tests change to using the compressed form of
215 ipv6 addresses for the sender. Previously the uncompressed form was used,
216 and if used in textual form this would result in behavior difference
219 JH/32 Bug 3096: MAIL before HELO/EHLO, where required by hosts_require_helo, is
220 now classed as a protocol error and subject to smtp_max_synprot_errors.
222 JH/33 Bug 2994: A subdir dsearch lookup should permit a directory name that starts
223 ".." and has following characters.
225 JH/34 Fix delivery ordering for 2-phase queue run combined with
228 JH/35 Bug 3099: fix parsing of MIME filename= split over multiple paramemters.
229 Previously the $mime_filename variable would have an incorrect value.
230 While in the code, extend coverage to name= which previously was only
231 supported for single parameters, despite also filling in $mime_filename.
237 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
238 SMTP connection" log lines.
240 JH/02 Option default value updates:
241 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
242 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
244 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
246 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
247 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
248 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
250 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
251 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
252 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
255 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
256 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
258 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
259 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
260 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
262 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
263 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
264 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
265 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
266 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
268 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
269 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
272 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
273 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
275 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
276 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
277 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
279 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
280 API changes in libopendmarc.
282 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
283 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
284 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
286 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
287 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
289 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
290 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
291 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
294 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
295 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
298 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
299 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
300 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
301 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
302 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
303 is strictly an incompatible change.
304 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
305 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
307 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
308 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
309 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
310 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
313 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
314 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
315 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
316 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
318 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
319 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
320 itself returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
321 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
322 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
323 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
326 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
327 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
330 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
331 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
332 to not checking that list for these lookups.
334 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
337 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
338 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
339 was done, killing the process.
341 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
342 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
343 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
346 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
347 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
348 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
349 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
351 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
352 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
354 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
357 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
358 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
359 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
360 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
361 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
362 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
363 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
365 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
366 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
367 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
368 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
369 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
370 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
371 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
372 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
373 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
374 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
376 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
377 usable until about year 3700.
378 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
379 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
380 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
381 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
382 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
383 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
384 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
385 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
386 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
387 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
388 wait- hints databases.
390 JH/30 Bug 3006: Fix handling of JSON strings having embedded commas. Previously
391 we treated them as item separators when parsing for a list item, but they
392 need to be protected by the doublequotes. While there, add handling for
395 JH/31 Bug 2998: Fix ${utf8clean:...} to disallow UTF-16 surrogate codepoints.
396 Found and fixed by Jasen Betts. No testcase for this as my usual text
397 editor insists on emitting only valid UTF-8.
399 JH/32 Fix "tls_dhparam = none" under GnuTLS. At least with 3.7.9 this gave
400 a null-indirection SIGSEGV for the receive process.
402 JH/33 Fix free for live variable $value created by a ${run ...} expansion during
403 -bh use. Internal checking would spot this and take a panic.
405 JH/34 Bug 3013: Fix use of $recipients within arguments for ${run...}.
406 In 4.96 this would expand to empty.
408 JH/35 Bug 3014: GnuTLS: fix expiry date for an auto-generated server
409 certificate. Find and fix by Andreas Metzler.
411 JH/36 Add ARC info to DMARC hostory records.
413 JH/37 Bug 3016: Avoid sending DSN when message was accepted under fakereject
414 or fakedefer. Previously the sender could discover that the message
415 had in fact been accepted.
417 JH/38 Taint-track intermediate values from the peer in multi-stage authentation
418 sequences. Previously the input was not noted as being tainted; notably
419 this resulted in behaviour of LOGIN vs. PLAIN being inconsistent under
420 bad coding of authenticators.
422 JH/39 Bug 3023: Fix crash induced by some combinations of zero-length strings
423 and ${tr...}. Found and diagnosed by Heiko Schlichting.
425 JH/40 Bug 2999: Fix a possible OOB write in the external authenticator, which
426 could be triggered by externally-supplied input. Found by Trend Micro.
429 JH/41 Bug 3000: Fix a possible OOB write in the SPA authenticator, which could
430 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
433 JH/42 Bug 3001: Fix a possible OOB read in the SPA authenticator, which could
434 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
437 JH/43 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
438 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
439 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
441 JH/44 Bug 3033: Harden dnsdb lookups against crafted DNS responses.
444 HS/02 Fix string_is_ip_address() CVE-2023-42117 (Bug 3031)
450 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
451 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
452 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
455 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
456 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
458 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
459 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
460 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
461 not be modified by local-scan code.
463 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
464 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
466 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
467 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
470 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
471 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
473 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
474 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
477 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
478 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
479 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
481 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
482 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
483 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
485 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
486 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
487 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
488 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
489 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
490 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
491 Assorted crashes happen.
493 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
494 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
495 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
498 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
499 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
500 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
501 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
503 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
504 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
505 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
508 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
510 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
511 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
514 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
515 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
516 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
518 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
519 result of expansion operators and items.
521 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
522 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
523 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
524 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
526 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
528 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
529 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
530 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
531 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
534 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
535 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
537 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
538 Previously only the domain part was returned.
540 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
541 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
542 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
543 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
545 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
546 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
547 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
548 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
550 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
551 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
552 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
553 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
554 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
557 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
558 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
559 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
561 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
562 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
563 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
564 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
566 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
567 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
568 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
569 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
571 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
572 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
573 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
574 Previously only the server IP was used.
576 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
577 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
578 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
579 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
581 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
582 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
583 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
585 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
586 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
587 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
590 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
591 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
593 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
594 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
600 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
601 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
602 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
604 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
605 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
606 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
607 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
609 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
610 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
611 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
612 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
613 so could be handling tainted values.
615 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
616 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
617 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
619 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
620 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
621 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
624 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
625 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
626 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
627 to align better with RFC 6125.
629 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
630 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
631 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
632 by adding a release action in that path.
634 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
635 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
636 dynamically-created buffers.
638 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
639 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
640 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
641 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
643 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
644 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
645 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
646 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
648 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
649 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
650 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
652 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
653 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
654 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
655 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
657 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
658 excluded, not matching the documentation.
660 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
661 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
663 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
664 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
665 this was a coding error.
667 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
668 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
669 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
670 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
671 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
672 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
673 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
675 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
676 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
677 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
678 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
680 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
681 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
682 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
683 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
684 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
686 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
687 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
690 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
691 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
692 domain-parking registrar.
694 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
695 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
696 after removing the newline.
698 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
699 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
700 option set, which was previously used.
702 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
705 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
706 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
707 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
708 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
710 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
711 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
712 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
713 exim.dev.20160529.3).
715 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
716 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
717 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
719 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
720 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
721 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
724 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
725 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
726 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
728 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
729 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
730 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
731 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
734 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
735 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
736 there, handle PRX and TFO.
738 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
739 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
740 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
741 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
742 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
744 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
745 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
746 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
747 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
750 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
751 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
753 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
756 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
757 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
758 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
759 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
760 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
762 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
764 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
765 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
766 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
767 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
768 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
769 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
771 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
772 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
774 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
775 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
776 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
778 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
779 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
782 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
783 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
784 of a new variable: $auth4.
786 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
787 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
788 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
789 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
790 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
792 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
793 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
794 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
795 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
797 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
798 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
799 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
801 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
802 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
803 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
804 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
807 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
808 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the store could not be freed.
809 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
812 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
813 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
814 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
815 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
817 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
818 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
820 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
821 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
822 looked as if if might be one.
824 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
825 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
826 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
827 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
828 messages can show the proxy information.
830 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
831 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
832 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
833 "queue_time_exclusive".
835 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
836 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
837 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
839 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
840 making it unusable in complex expressions.
842 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
843 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
846 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
848 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
850 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
852 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
853 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
854 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
855 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
857 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
858 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
860 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
861 better. Reported by Qualys.
863 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
864 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
867 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
869 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
872 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
874 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
875 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
876 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
877 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
879 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
880 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
882 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
883 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
884 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
885 mode until after various protocol state checks.
886 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
888 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
890 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
891 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
893 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
896 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
897 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
898 executed child processes (if any).
900 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
903 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
904 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
905 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
906 been reported on other platforms.
908 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
910 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
911 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
912 Not supported on Solaris 10.
914 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
915 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
916 since fakereject was originally introduced.
918 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
919 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
921 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
922 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
923 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
926 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
927 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
928 which only permit IP addresses.
934 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
935 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
936 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
938 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
940 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
941 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
944 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
945 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
946 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
948 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
950 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
952 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
953 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
954 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
956 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
957 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
958 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
960 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
961 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
963 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
964 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
967 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
968 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
969 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
970 should both provide the file and set the option.
971 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
973 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
974 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
976 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
977 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
978 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
979 Authentication-Results: header.
981 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
982 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
983 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
984 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
986 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
987 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
988 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
989 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
990 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
991 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
992 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
994 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
995 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
996 copies while it is still usable.
998 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
999 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
1000 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
1002 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
1003 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
1005 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
1006 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
1007 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
1008 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
1010 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
1011 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
1012 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
1015 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
1016 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
1017 - the pipe transport command
1018 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
1019 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
1021 - paths used by single-key lookups
1022 Previously this was permitted.
1024 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
1025 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
1026 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
1027 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
1029 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
1030 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
1031 support larger malloc requests.
1033 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
1034 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
1035 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
1036 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
1038 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
1039 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
1040 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
1041 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
1044 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
1045 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
1046 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
1047 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
1048 data being length-specified.
1050 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
1051 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
1052 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
1053 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
1055 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
1056 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
1057 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
1058 not being properly tracked.
1060 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
1061 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
1062 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
1063 minute could be seen.
1065 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
1066 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
1067 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
1069 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
1070 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
1072 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
1073 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
1076 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
1078 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
1079 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
1081 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
1082 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
1083 filesystem as sufficient validation.
1085 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
1086 argument is supplied.
1088 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
1089 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
1090 access under Exim's current working directory.
1092 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
1093 Previously no event was raised.
1095 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
1096 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
1097 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
1100 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
1101 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
1102 the size of the signature hash.
1104 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
1105 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
1107 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
1108 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
1109 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
1110 dropped between messages.
1112 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
1113 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
1114 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
1115 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
1117 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
1118 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
1119 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
1120 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
1121 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
1122 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
1123 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
1124 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
1125 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
1127 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
1128 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
1129 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
1131 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
1132 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
1139 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
1140 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
1142 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
1143 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
1144 its own TCP segment.
1146 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
1149 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
1151 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
1153 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
1154 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
1156 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
1157 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
1158 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
1159 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
1160 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
1161 suitably configured).
1163 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
1164 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
1166 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
1167 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
1170 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
1171 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
1173 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
1174 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
1175 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
1176 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
1179 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
1180 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
1181 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
1183 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
1186 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
1187 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
1189 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
1190 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
1191 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
1192 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
1195 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1196 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
1197 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
1198 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
1199 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
1201 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1202 shared (NFS) environment.
1204 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
1205 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
1208 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
1209 on some platforms for bit 31.
1211 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
1212 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
1213 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
1214 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
1215 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
1216 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
1217 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
1218 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
1220 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
1222 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
1223 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
1225 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
1226 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
1229 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
1230 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
1233 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
1234 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
1235 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
1238 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
1239 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
1240 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
1242 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
1243 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
1244 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
1245 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
1246 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
1248 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
1251 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
1252 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
1253 be requested on all coneections.
1255 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
1256 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
1258 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
1260 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
1261 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
1262 one for these; the option was ignored.
1264 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
1265 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
1266 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
1267 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
1269 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
1270 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
1271 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
1274 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
1275 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
1276 error ignored was made.
1278 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
1280 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
1281 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
1282 values, to catch one form of exploit.
1284 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
1285 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1286 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1288 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1289 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1292 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1293 them in our smtp response.
1295 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1296 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1297 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1298 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1299 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1301 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1302 link count into consideration.
1304 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1305 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1307 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1308 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1309 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1312 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1314 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1316 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1318 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1319 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1320 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1321 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1323 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1325 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1326 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1329 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1330 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1331 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1333 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1334 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1335 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1337 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1338 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1339 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1340 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1341 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1342 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1343 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1344 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1346 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1347 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1348 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1350 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1351 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1352 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1354 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1355 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1362 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1363 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1365 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1366 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1368 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1369 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1370 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1372 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1373 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1374 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1376 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1377 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1378 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1379 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1380 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1383 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1384 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1386 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1387 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1388 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1389 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1390 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1391 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1392 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1394 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1395 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1397 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1400 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1401 Previously this would segfault.
1403 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1406 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1407 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1408 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1409 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1410 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1411 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1413 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1415 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1416 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1417 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1418 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1420 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1422 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1423 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1424 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1425 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1427 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1429 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1431 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1432 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1433 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1435 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1436 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1437 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1439 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1441 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1442 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1443 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1444 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1446 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1447 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1448 promised '?' replacement.
1450 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1452 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1453 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1454 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1455 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1456 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1458 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1459 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1460 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1462 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1463 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1464 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1466 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1467 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1468 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1470 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1471 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1472 hope that is portable enough.
1474 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1475 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1476 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1477 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1479 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1480 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1481 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1483 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1484 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1485 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1486 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1488 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1489 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1491 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1492 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1493 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1494 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1496 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1497 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1498 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1500 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1501 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1502 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1503 the previous G, M, k.
1505 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1506 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1509 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1510 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1511 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1512 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1514 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1515 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1517 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1518 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1519 off past the nul-terimation.
1521 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1522 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1523 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1524 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1525 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1527 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1529 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1530 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1531 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1534 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1535 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1537 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1538 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1539 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1541 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1542 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1543 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1545 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1546 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1552 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1553 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1554 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1555 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1556 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1557 be defined in redis_servers.
1559 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1560 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1562 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1563 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1564 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1565 extant use locations.
1567 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1568 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1570 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1571 Previously only the last row was returned.
1573 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1574 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1575 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1576 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1579 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1580 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1581 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1582 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1583 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1584 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1585 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1586 Main pool for expansions.
1587 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1588 active in the testsuite.
1589 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1591 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1592 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1593 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1594 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1597 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1598 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1601 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1602 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1603 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1605 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1606 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1607 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1609 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1610 rows affected is given instead).
1612 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1613 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1615 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1616 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1617 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1618 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1619 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1621 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1622 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1623 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1625 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1626 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1627 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1628 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1631 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1632 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1633 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1636 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1638 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1639 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1641 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1642 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1643 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1645 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1646 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1647 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1650 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1651 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1653 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1654 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1655 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1657 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1658 for the build is renamed.
1660 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1661 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1662 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1664 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1665 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1666 result replacing the original.
1668 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1669 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1670 and the resources needed to be freed.
1672 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1674 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1677 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1678 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1679 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1680 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1682 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1683 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1685 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1686 newer versions of the scanner.
1688 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1689 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1690 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1691 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1692 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1693 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1694 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1696 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1697 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1698 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1699 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1700 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1701 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1702 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1703 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1704 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1705 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1707 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1708 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1710 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1712 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1713 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1715 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1716 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1718 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1719 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1720 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1722 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1723 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1724 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1725 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1727 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1728 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1731 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1732 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1734 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1735 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1736 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1737 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1738 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1740 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1741 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1744 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1745 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1747 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1750 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1751 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1752 "bare" representation.
1754 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1755 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1756 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1757 corrupted the output.
1763 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1764 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1765 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1766 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1768 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1769 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1771 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1772 This permits better logging.
1774 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1775 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1776 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1777 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1778 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1779 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1781 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1782 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1785 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1786 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1787 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1789 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1790 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1792 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1793 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1794 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1795 client, there is no benefit for these.
1796 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1797 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1798 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1801 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1802 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1804 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1805 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1806 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1808 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1809 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1811 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1812 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1813 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1814 signature and again for transmission.
1816 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1817 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1818 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1820 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1821 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1822 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1823 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1824 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1825 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1826 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1828 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1829 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1830 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1831 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1833 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1834 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1835 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1836 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1837 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1838 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1841 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1842 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1843 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1844 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1847 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1848 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1849 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1850 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1853 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1854 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1857 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1858 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1859 banner-time rejection.
1861 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1864 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1865 is the name of a transport.
1868 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1870 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1871 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1873 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1874 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1875 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1878 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1879 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1880 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1881 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1883 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1884 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1885 initial verify call returned a defer.
1887 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1888 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1890 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1891 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1893 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1894 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1896 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1897 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1899 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1900 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1903 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1904 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1906 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1907 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1908 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1910 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1911 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1912 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1913 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1915 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1916 and confused the parent.
1918 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1919 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1921 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1924 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1925 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1926 out-of-order delivery.
1928 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1929 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1930 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1933 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1934 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1937 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1938 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1939 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1941 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1942 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1943 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1944 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1945 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1946 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1948 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1949 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1950 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1952 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1953 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1954 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1956 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1957 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1958 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1959 though a different problem.
1965 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1966 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1968 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1970 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1971 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1973 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1974 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1976 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1977 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1978 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1979 before acknowledging the chunk.
1981 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1982 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1983 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1985 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1986 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1987 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1990 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1991 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1992 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1994 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1995 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1997 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1998 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1999 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
2000 body hash calculated value.
2002 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
2003 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
2004 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
2006 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
2008 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
2009 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
2011 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
2012 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
2013 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
2015 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
2016 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
2017 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
2018 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
2019 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
2020 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
2022 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
2023 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
2024 past that check, despite the cost.
2026 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
2027 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
2028 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
2030 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
2031 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
2032 TLS library to consume.
2034 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
2036 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
2038 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
2039 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
2040 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
2041 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
2042 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
2043 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
2044 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
2046 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
2048 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
2050 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
2051 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
2052 should be warning-free.
2054 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
2056 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
2057 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
2059 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
2060 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
2061 general solution here.
2063 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
2064 already-broken messages in the queue.
2066 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
2068 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
2074 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
2075 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
2077 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
2078 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
2079 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
2081 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
2082 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
2083 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
2084 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
2085 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
2086 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
2087 if one fails this test.
2088 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
2089 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
2091 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
2092 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
2094 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
2095 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
2097 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
2098 in rewrites and routers.
2100 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
2101 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
2103 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
2104 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
2106 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
2108 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
2111 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
2112 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
2113 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
2114 connection after a verify cache hit.
2115 Do not update it with the verify result either.
2117 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
2118 when routing results in more than one destination address.
2120 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
2121 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
2122 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
2123 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
2124 when the cutthrough connection is made).
2126 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
2127 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
2129 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
2130 Previously they were not counted.
2132 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
2133 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
2134 that needed the lookup.
2136 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
2137 distinguished as "(=".
2139 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
2140 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
2142 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
2144 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
2145 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
2147 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
2148 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
2150 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
2151 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
2154 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
2155 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
2156 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
2157 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
2159 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
2161 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2162 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
2163 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
2165 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
2166 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
2167 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
2170 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
2171 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
2172 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
2175 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
2176 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
2177 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
2179 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
2180 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
2183 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
2185 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
2186 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
2188 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
2189 are not in the system include path.
2191 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
2192 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
2193 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
2194 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
2196 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
2197 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
2198 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
2200 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
2202 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
2203 an incoming connection.
2205 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
2208 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
2209 fallback to "prime256v1".
2211 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
2212 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
2218 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
2219 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
2220 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
2221 client dropping the TLS connection.
2223 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
2224 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
2226 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
2227 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
2228 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
2229 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
2232 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
2233 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
2234 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
2235 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
2236 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
2237 check on the next write.
2239 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
2240 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
2241 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
2242 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
2243 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
2245 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
2246 mime_regex ACL conditions.
2248 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
2249 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
2250 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
2252 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
2253 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
2254 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
2255 an authenticate fail is not an error.
2257 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
2258 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
2260 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
2261 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
2263 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
2264 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
2265 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
2268 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
2270 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
2272 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
2274 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
2275 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
2277 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
2278 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
2280 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
2282 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
2283 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
2285 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2287 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2288 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2290 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2292 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2293 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2294 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2295 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2296 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2297 they will retry in-clear.
2298 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2299 at installation time.
2301 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2302 with the $config_file variable.
2304 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2305 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2306 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2307 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2308 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2310 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2311 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2312 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2313 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2314 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2316 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2318 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2319 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2320 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2321 list order is no longer honoured.
2323 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2324 for DKIM processing.
2326 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2327 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2329 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2330 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2331 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2332 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2334 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2335 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2337 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2338 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2340 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2341 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2343 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2345 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2346 cached by the daemon.
2348 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2349 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2351 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2352 keys are given for lookup.
2354 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2355 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2356 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2357 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2359 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2360 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2361 server-side so match that on older versions.
2363 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2364 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2365 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2367 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2368 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2370 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2371 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2372 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2373 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2374 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2375 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2376 initial truncated version.
2378 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2380 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2382 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2383 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2385 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2387 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2389 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2390 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2393 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2394 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2397 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2398 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2400 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2401 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2404 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2405 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2406 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2408 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2409 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2410 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2411 extraction. Accept either.
2417 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2420 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2422 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2425 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2426 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2427 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2428 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2430 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2431 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2432 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2434 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2435 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2436 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2439 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2442 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2443 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2444 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2445 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2446 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2448 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2449 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2450 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2452 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2454 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2455 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2457 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2458 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2460 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2463 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2464 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2466 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2467 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2468 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2470 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2471 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2472 specify a port-range.
2474 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2475 timeout value per server.
2477 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2478 now have the list separator specified.
2480 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2483 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2486 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2488 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2489 rather than the verbs used.
2491 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2492 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2494 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2496 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2497 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2499 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2500 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2502 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2503 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2505 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2507 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2509 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2510 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2511 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2512 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2514 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2516 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2517 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2519 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2520 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2522 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2524 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2526 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2528 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2529 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2531 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2532 added for tls authenticator.
2534 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2540 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2541 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2542 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2543 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2544 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2545 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2546 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2548 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2549 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2550 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2551 function when detected.
2553 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2554 cause callback expansion.
2556 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2557 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2558 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2559 instead of bool when processing it.
2561 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2562 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2564 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2566 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2568 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2570 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2571 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2573 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2574 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2575 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2576 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2577 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2578 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2580 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2581 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2584 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2585 version 3.3.6 or later.
2587 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2588 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2589 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2590 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2591 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2592 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2595 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2596 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2598 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2599 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2600 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2603 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2604 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2605 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2607 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2608 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2610 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2611 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2614 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2616 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2617 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2619 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2620 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2623 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2625 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2628 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2629 output list separator was used.
2634 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2635 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2638 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2639 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2641 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2643 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2644 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2650 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2652 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2653 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2654 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2655 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2656 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2657 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2659 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2660 utilities have not been installed.
2662 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2663 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2665 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2666 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2668 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2669 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2670 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2671 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2673 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2675 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2676 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2678 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2681 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2683 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2684 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2685 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2687 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2688 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2689 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2690 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2691 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2692 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2694 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2696 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2697 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2699 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2702 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2704 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2706 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2707 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2709 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2710 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2712 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2714 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2716 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2717 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2719 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2720 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2721 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2723 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2724 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2725 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2728 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2730 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2731 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2734 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2735 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2738 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2739 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2741 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2742 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2744 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2746 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2747 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2748 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2750 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2751 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2753 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2754 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2757 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2758 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2759 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2761 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2763 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2764 Christian Aistleitner.
2766 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2768 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2769 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2771 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2772 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2774 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2775 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2777 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2778 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2780 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2781 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2783 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2784 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2785 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2787 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2789 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2790 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2793 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2795 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2796 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2803 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2805 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2806 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2808 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2811 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2812 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2815 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2817 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2818 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2819 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2820 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2821 using channel bindings instead).
2823 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2824 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2825 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2826 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2827 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2830 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2832 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2834 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2835 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2837 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2838 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2839 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2841 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2843 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2845 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2846 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2848 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2850 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2852 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2854 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2855 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2857 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2859 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2860 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2863 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2864 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2866 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2867 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2870 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2872 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2874 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2875 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2877 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2880 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2881 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2883 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2884 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2886 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2888 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2890 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2893 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2896 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2898 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2899 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2900 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2901 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2903 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2905 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2906 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2907 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2908 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2911 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2912 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2913 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2915 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2916 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2917 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2918 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2920 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2921 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2922 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2923 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2924 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2925 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2926 delivery, as in LMTP.
2928 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2929 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2931 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2933 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2937 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2938 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2939 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2940 username as equal to the username.
2942 This change corrects that bug.
2944 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2945 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2946 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2948 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2950 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2951 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2952 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2953 NULL dereference and crash.
2955 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2957 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2958 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2959 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2961 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2963 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2964 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2965 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2966 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2967 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2968 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2969 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2970 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2971 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2972 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2973 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2975 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2976 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2978 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2979 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2982 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2983 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2984 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2985 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2986 an empty string is now equivalent.
2988 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2989 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2990 not performing validation itself.
2992 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2993 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2995 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2998 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
3000 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
3001 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
3002 other false fix of the same issue.
3003 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
3006 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
3007 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
3009 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
3010 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
3011 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
3013 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
3014 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
3015 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
3017 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
3019 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
3021 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
3022 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
3024 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
3027 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
3028 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
3029 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
3030 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
3031 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
3033 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
3034 the src/util/ subdirectory.
3036 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
3037 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
3040 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
3041 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
3042 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
3043 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
3045 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
3047 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
3048 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
3049 from multiple comments on this bug.
3051 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
3053 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
3054 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
3057 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
3058 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
3060 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
3061 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
3067 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
3069 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3075 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
3076 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
3077 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
3079 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
3081 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
3084 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
3086 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
3088 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
3090 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
3091 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
3093 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
3094 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
3096 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
3097 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
3099 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
3100 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
3101 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
3103 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
3105 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
3106 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
3108 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
3110 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
3112 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
3113 non-compliant senders.
3114 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
3116 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
3117 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
3118 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
3120 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
3121 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
3122 in spool file corruption.
3124 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
3125 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
3126 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
3129 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
3130 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
3131 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3133 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
3134 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
3136 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
3138 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
3140 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
3142 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
3143 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
3144 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
3146 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
3147 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3148 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
3149 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
3151 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
3152 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
3154 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
3155 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
3156 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
3157 resolver implementation change.
3159 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
3160 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
3162 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
3164 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
3166 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
3167 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
3169 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
3170 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
3172 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
3173 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
3175 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
3176 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
3177 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
3178 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
3179 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
3181 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3183 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
3184 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
3185 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
3187 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
3189 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
3190 read-only, out of scope).
3191 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
3193 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
3194 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
3195 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
3196 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
3198 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
3200 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
3201 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
3202 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
3203 real issues in debug logging.
3205 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
3206 assignment on my part. Fixed.
3208 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
3209 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
3210 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
3212 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
3213 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
3214 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
3217 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
3218 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
3220 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
3221 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
3222 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
3223 needs to override this, it can.
3225 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
3226 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
3227 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3229 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
3230 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
3231 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
3232 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
3234 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
3240 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
3241 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
3243 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
3245 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
3248 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
3249 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
3251 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
3252 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
3253 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
3255 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
3256 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
3257 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
3258 not safe for signals.
3260 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
3261 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
3262 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
3263 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
3266 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
3268 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
3269 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
3270 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
3271 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
3272 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
3274 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
3275 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
3276 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
3277 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
3278 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
3279 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
3281 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
3282 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
3283 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
3284 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3286 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3287 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3288 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3289 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3291 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3292 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3293 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3294 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3295 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3296 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3297 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3298 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3299 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3301 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3302 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3303 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3304 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3306 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3307 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3308 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3309 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3310 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3311 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3312 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3313 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3314 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3315 details in the main documentation.
3317 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3319 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3321 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3322 repository when doing development or release builds.
3324 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3325 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3327 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3328 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3331 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3333 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3334 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3336 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3337 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3339 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3340 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3342 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3343 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3345 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3346 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3348 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3350 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3353 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3354 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3355 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3357 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3359 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3361 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3362 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3368 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3370 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3371 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3373 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3375 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3377 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3380 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3381 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3383 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3384 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3386 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3387 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3389 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3392 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3393 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3395 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3396 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3397 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3398 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3400 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3401 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3407 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3410 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3411 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3412 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3414 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3415 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3417 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3418 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3419 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3421 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3422 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3424 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3425 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3427 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3428 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3430 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3431 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3433 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3434 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3436 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3439 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3440 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3442 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3443 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3445 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3446 SQL string expansion failure details.
3447 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3449 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3450 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3452 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3453 extern declarations in function scope.
3454 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3456 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3457 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3458 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3461 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3462 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3464 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3465 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3467 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3468 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3470 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3471 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3473 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3474 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3477 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3479 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3481 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3482 Patch by Simon Arlott
3484 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3485 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3491 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3492 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3494 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3495 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3497 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3499 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3500 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3501 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3503 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3504 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3505 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3507 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3508 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3509 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3510 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3512 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3513 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3514 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3515 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3517 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3518 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3519 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3522 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3525 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3526 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3527 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3528 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3529 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3535 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3536 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3537 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3539 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3540 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3542 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3544 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3546 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3548 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3550 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3552 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3553 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3554 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3555 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3557 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3558 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3559 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3560 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3561 more caution in buffer sizes.
3563 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3565 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3567 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3569 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3571 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3573 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3575 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3577 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3578 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3579 ignore trailing whitespace.
3581 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3583 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3586 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3587 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3589 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3590 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3591 Notification from John Horne.
3593 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3596 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3597 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3600 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3603 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3604 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3605 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3607 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3608 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3609 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3612 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3613 option (effectively making it always true).
3615 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3616 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3618 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3619 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3621 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3622 run-time user, instead of root.
3624 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3625 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3627 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3628 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3631 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3632 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3633 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3635 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3637 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3643 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3644 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3647 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3648 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3651 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3652 Patch from Alain Williams
3654 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3656 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3657 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3659 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3660 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3662 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3664 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3666 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3667 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3669 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3671 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3673 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3674 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3675 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3677 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3678 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3680 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3681 Patch by Simon Arlott
3683 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3684 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3690 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3692 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3694 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3696 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3698 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3704 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3705 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3707 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3708 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3711 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3712 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3713 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3715 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3716 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3718 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3719 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3720 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3721 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3723 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3724 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3725 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3727 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3729 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3731 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3732 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3734 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3736 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3737 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3738 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3739 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3741 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3742 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3744 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3746 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3748 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3749 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3751 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3752 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3754 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3755 that they are available at delivery time.
3757 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3759 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3760 incoming_port log selectors.
3762 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3763 setting expands to an empty string.
3765 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3766 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3768 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3769 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3771 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3772 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3774 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3775 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3777 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3778 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3780 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3781 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3783 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3785 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3786 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3788 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3789 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3791 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3793 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3794 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3796 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3798 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3800 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3803 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3804 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3806 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3807 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3809 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3810 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3812 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3813 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3815 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3816 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3818 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3819 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3821 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3822 plus update to original patch.
3824 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3826 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3827 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3829 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3831 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3833 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3835 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3837 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3838 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3840 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3841 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3843 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3844 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3846 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3847 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3849 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3851 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3853 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3855 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3861 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3862 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3863 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3865 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3866 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3867 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3868 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3869 build errors in sieve.c.
3871 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3872 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3873 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3875 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3877 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3879 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3881 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3887 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3889 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3890 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3891 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3892 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3893 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3894 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3895 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3896 for iplsearch lookups.
3898 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3899 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3900 previously such lookups could never work.
3902 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3903 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3904 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3906 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3909 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3910 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3911 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3912 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3913 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3914 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3916 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3917 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3919 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3920 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3921 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3922 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3923 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3924 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3926 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3929 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3931 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3932 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3935 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3936 by clients under certain conditions.
3938 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3939 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3941 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3943 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3944 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3946 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3948 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3950 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3952 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3953 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3955 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3957 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3958 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3960 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3962 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3964 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3965 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3966 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3967 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3969 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3970 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3971 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3973 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3974 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3976 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3978 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3980 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3982 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3983 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3984 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3990 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3991 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3994 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3995 issue a MAIL command.
3997 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3999 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
4001 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
4002 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
4003 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
4004 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
4005 item. This has been fixed.
4007 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
4008 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
4010 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
4011 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
4013 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
4014 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
4015 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
4017 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
4019 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
4020 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
4021 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
4022 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
4023 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
4025 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
4026 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
4027 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
4029 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
4030 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
4031 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
4032 the server_setid option was incorrect.
4034 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
4036 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
4038 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
4039 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
4040 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
4041 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
4042 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
4044 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
4046 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
4047 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
4048 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
4051 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
4053 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
4055 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
4057 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
4059 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
4061 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
4062 no_callout_flush is set.
4064 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
4065 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
4066 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
4069 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
4071 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4072 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
4073 other ACL rejections are.
4075 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
4076 with slight modification.
4078 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
4079 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
4081 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
4082 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
4085 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
4086 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
4088 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
4090 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
4091 expansion side effects.
4093 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
4094 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
4095 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
4098 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
4099 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
4100 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
4102 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
4103 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
4104 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
4105 were accidentally chopped off.
4107 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
4108 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
4109 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
4110 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
4111 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
4112 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
4113 pipelining has not been advertised.
4115 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
4117 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
4118 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
4119 This has been fixed.
4121 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
4122 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
4123 reported on Solaris.
4125 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
4126 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
4127 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
4128 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
4129 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
4130 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
4131 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
4133 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
4136 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
4138 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
4140 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
4141 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
4142 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
4143 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
4144 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
4145 criteria to be more general.
4147 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
4148 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
4149 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
4150 host_all_ignored option.
4152 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
4153 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
4154 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
4155 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
4156 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
4157 is what is supposed to happen).
4159 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
4160 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
4161 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
4162 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
4163 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
4166 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
4167 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
4168 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
4169 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
4170 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
4171 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
4174 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4176 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
4177 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
4179 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
4180 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
4182 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
4184 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4186 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
4187 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
4188 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
4189 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
4190 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
4191 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
4192 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
4193 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
4194 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
4195 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
4196 least in a lot of common cases.
4198 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
4199 advertised in response to EHLO.
4205 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
4206 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
4208 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
4209 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
4211 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
4212 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
4213 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
4215 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
4216 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
4217 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
4218 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
4219 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
4225 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
4226 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
4229 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
4230 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
4231 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
4233 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
4234 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
4235 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
4236 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
4237 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
4238 rather than extend the field.
4244 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
4245 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
4246 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
4247 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
4250 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
4251 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
4252 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
4254 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
4255 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
4256 hence the _LINUX specificness.
4258 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
4259 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
4260 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
4263 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
4264 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
4265 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
4266 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
4267 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
4268 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
4269 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
4270 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
4271 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
4272 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
4273 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
4275 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
4278 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
4279 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
4280 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
4281 ignores EPIPE as well.
4283 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
4284 (quoted-printable decoding).
4286 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4287 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4289 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4291 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4293 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4295 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4296 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4298 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4301 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4302 miscellaneous code fixes
4304 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4307 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4308 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4309 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4310 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4311 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4312 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4313 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4314 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4316 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4317 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4318 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4319 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4321 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4322 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4323 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4324 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4325 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4326 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4327 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4328 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4329 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4331 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4334 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4335 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4336 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4337 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4338 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4339 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4340 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4341 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4343 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4344 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4347 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4348 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4349 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4350 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4351 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4352 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4353 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4354 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4355 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4356 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4357 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4358 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4359 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4361 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4362 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4363 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4364 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4365 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4366 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4367 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4369 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4370 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4371 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4372 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4373 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4374 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4375 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4376 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4377 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4378 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4380 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4381 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4382 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4383 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4384 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4386 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4387 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4388 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4389 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4390 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4391 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4392 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4394 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4395 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4396 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4397 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4398 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4399 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4402 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4403 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4404 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4407 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4408 if any retry times were supplied.
4410 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4411 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4412 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4414 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4416 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4418 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4419 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4420 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4421 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4422 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4423 before) are ignored.
4425 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4426 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4428 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4429 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4430 committing the later change.]
4432 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4433 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4434 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4435 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4436 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4437 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4438 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4439 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4440 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4442 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4443 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4444 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4445 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4446 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4447 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4448 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4449 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4450 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4452 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4453 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4454 hammering the server.
4456 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4457 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4459 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4461 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4462 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4463 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4465 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4466 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4467 one case where this was not true.
4469 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4470 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4471 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4472 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4475 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4476 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4477 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4478 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4479 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4480 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4481 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4482 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4483 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4486 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4487 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4488 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4489 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4491 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4492 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4494 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4495 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4496 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4498 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4500 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4502 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4504 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4505 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4506 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4507 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4509 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4510 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4512 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4513 be meaningful with "accept".
4515 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4516 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4518 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4519 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4520 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4522 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4523 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4524 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4525 there is data to show.
4526 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4528 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4529 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4530 as well as the number of messages.
4532 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4533 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4534 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4536 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4537 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4538 have a flag are now skipped.
4540 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4541 Added the -emptyok flag.
4543 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4544 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4546 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4547 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4548 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4550 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4553 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4554 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4556 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4558 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4559 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4561 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4563 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4564 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4565 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4566 contravention of the specifications.
4568 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4569 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4570 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4572 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4573 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4574 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4576 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4578 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4579 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4580 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4581 some point in the past.
4583 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4584 transport during callout processing was broken.
4586 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4587 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4589 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4590 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4592 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4593 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4595 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4601 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4602 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4604 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4605 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4606 there is data to show.
4607 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4609 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4610 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4612 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4613 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4615 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4616 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4618 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4619 submissions from trusted users.
4621 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4622 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4624 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4625 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4626 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4627 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4628 there is now a framework to start from.
4630 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4631 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4632 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4634 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4636 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4638 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4640 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4641 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4642 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4644 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4647 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4648 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4649 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4651 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4652 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4653 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4656 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4657 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4658 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4659 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4660 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4662 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4663 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4665 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4667 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4668 operations in malware.c.
4670 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4673 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4674 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4675 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4678 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4679 statements to "add_header".
4681 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4682 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4684 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4685 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4688 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4692 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4693 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4694 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4697 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4698 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4700 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4701 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4703 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4704 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4705 any possible encoding problems.
4707 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4708 but not after initializing Perl.
4710 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4711 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4712 apparently, which is not desirable.
4714 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4717 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4720 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4722 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4723 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4724 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4725 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4727 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4728 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4729 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4731 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4732 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4733 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4736 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4737 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4738 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4739 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4740 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4746 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4747 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4749 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4752 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4753 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4754 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4755 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4756 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4757 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4758 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4759 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4762 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4764 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4765 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4766 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4768 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4769 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4770 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4773 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4774 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4776 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4777 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4778 option (which defaults to 0600).
4780 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4782 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4783 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4784 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4785 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4786 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4787 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4788 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4790 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4796 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4797 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4798 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4799 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4800 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4801 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4804 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4805 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4807 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4809 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4810 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4811 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4812 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4813 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4816 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4817 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4819 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4820 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4821 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4822 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4823 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4825 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4826 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4827 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4828 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4830 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4831 be the same on different OS.
4833 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4836 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4837 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4839 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4842 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4843 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4844 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4845 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4846 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4847 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4850 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4851 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4852 when Exim was called.
4854 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4855 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4857 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4858 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4859 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4860 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4862 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4863 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4864 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4865 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4868 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4869 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4870 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4872 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4873 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4874 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4876 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4879 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4880 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4881 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4882 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4883 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4884 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4885 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4886 values from the SRV records were lost.
4888 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4889 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4890 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4892 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4893 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4894 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4896 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4897 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4898 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4899 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4900 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4901 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4902 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4903 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4904 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4905 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4907 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4908 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4909 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4911 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4912 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4914 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4915 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4916 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4917 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4920 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4921 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4922 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4924 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4925 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4926 PH/23 above applies.
4928 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4929 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4930 (for which there is an explicit test).
4932 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4934 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4935 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4936 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4937 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4938 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4940 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4941 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4942 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4943 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4945 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4946 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4947 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4949 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4951 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4953 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4954 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4955 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4957 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4958 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4959 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4960 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4961 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4963 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4964 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4965 the message gets confusing).
4967 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4968 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4969 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4970 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4972 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4973 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4974 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4975 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4978 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4979 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4980 the different processes.
4982 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4984 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4986 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4987 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4989 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4990 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4992 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4993 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4994 messages matching specified criteria.
4996 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4998 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4999 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
5001 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
5002 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
5003 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
5004 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
5005 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
5006 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
5007 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
5008 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
5009 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
5010 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
5012 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
5013 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
5014 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
5016 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
5018 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
5019 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
5020 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
5021 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
5022 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
5023 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
5024 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
5027 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
5028 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
5030 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
5032 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
5034 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
5036 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
5037 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
5038 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
5039 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
5040 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
5041 size of the count of files.
5043 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
5045 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
5048 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
5049 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
5050 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
5051 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
5053 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
5054 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
5055 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
5057 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
5058 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
5059 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
5060 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
5061 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
5063 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
5064 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
5066 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
5067 will now be deprecated.
5069 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5071 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
5072 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
5073 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
5075 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
5076 with very large, slow to parse queues
5078 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
5080 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
5082 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
5083 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
5084 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
5087 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
5088 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
5089 Sieve code now uses this.
5091 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
5092 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
5094 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
5095 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
5097 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
5099 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
5100 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
5101 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
5102 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
5103 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
5105 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
5106 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
5107 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
5108 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
5110 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
5112 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
5114 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
5115 is preferred over IPv4.
5117 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
5118 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
5119 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
5120 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
5121 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
5122 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
5123 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
5125 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
5126 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
5127 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
5129 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
5131 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
5132 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
5133 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
5134 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
5135 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
5136 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
5137 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
5138 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
5139 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
5140 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
5141 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
5143 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
5144 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
5145 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
5151 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
5153 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
5154 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
5156 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
5157 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
5158 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5160 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
5162 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
5165 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
5168 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
5169 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
5170 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
5173 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
5174 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
5176 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
5177 inside the third argument.
5179 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
5180 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
5183 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
5184 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
5186 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
5187 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
5189 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
5191 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
5192 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
5195 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
5197 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
5198 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
5199 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
5200 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
5201 identical. For example:
5203 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
5205 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
5206 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
5207 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
5209 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
5210 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
5211 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
5212 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
5214 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
5215 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
5216 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
5219 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
5221 o fixes some comments
5222 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
5223 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
5224 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
5225 and documents the missing references header update
5229 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
5230 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
5233 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
5234 Electronic Mail") by including:
5236 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
5238 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
5239 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
5240 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
5241 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
5242 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
5244 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5246 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
5248 The auto-replied keyword:
5250 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
5251 message by an automatic process,
5253 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
5255 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
5256 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
5258 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
5259 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
5262 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
5263 to the default Received: header definition.
5265 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
5267 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
5268 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
5269 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
5271 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
5272 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
5273 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
5275 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
5276 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
5277 and treats the condition as false.
5279 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
5281 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
5282 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
5283 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
5284 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
5285 not changing the active code.
5287 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5288 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5290 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5291 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5293 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5296 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5297 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5298 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5299 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5300 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5301 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5302 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5303 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5304 the text comparison.
5306 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5307 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5308 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5309 The same fix has been applied.
5315 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5316 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5319 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5320 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5322 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5324 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5325 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5326 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5327 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5328 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5330 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5331 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5332 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5333 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5336 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5344 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5345 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5347 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5349 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5351 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5352 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5353 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5355 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5356 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5357 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5359 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5360 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5363 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5364 ${stat: expansion item.
5366 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5367 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5369 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5370 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5373 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5375 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5378 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5379 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5381 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5383 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5384 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5385 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5386 the end of the subprocess.
5388 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5389 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5390 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5391 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5392 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5394 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5396 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5398 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5399 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5401 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5403 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5405 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5406 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5409 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5411 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5412 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5413 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5415 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5416 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5418 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5419 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5421 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5422 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5424 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5425 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5427 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5428 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5429 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5430 contributed by a Radius user.
5432 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5433 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5435 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5436 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5438 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5441 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5442 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5445 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5446 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5447 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5448 header lines when this was not necessary.
5450 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5452 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5453 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5454 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5457 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5460 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5461 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5462 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5463 return code was incorrect.
5465 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5467 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5469 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5471 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5473 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5474 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5475 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5476 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5477 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5480 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5482 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5483 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5484 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5485 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5486 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5487 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5488 which is clearly wrong.
5490 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5492 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5493 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5494 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5497 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5498 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5500 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5502 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5503 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5505 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5506 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5508 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5509 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5511 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5512 recipients, not senders.
5514 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5515 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5517 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5519 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5521 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5522 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5523 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5524 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5526 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5528 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5529 clock is set back in time.
5531 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5532 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5534 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5535 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5537 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5538 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5541 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5542 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5545 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5548 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5550 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5551 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5552 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5554 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5555 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5556 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5557 helo verification defer as a failure.
5559 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5560 actual error message.
5566 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5568 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5569 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5570 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5571 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5573 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5575 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5576 can still be requested.
5578 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5579 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5580 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5581 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5583 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5584 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5585 circumstances, but probably never did.
5587 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5588 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5589 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5592 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5594 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5595 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5597 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5599 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5601 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5602 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5603 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5604 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5605 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5606 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5608 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5609 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5610 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5611 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5612 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5613 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5615 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5616 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5618 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5619 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5621 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5622 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5624 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5626 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5628 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5630 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5632 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5634 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5636 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5638 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5639 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5640 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5642 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5643 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5644 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5645 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5647 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5648 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5649 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5651 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5652 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5653 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5654 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5656 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5657 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5660 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5661 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5662 should work with maildirs and everything.
5664 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5665 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5667 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5670 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5671 function for BDB 4.3.
5673 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5675 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5676 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5679 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5680 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5681 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5682 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5683 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5684 formatting function string_vformat().
5686 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5687 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5688 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5689 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5690 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5691 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5692 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5693 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5695 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5696 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5699 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5700 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5702 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5703 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5704 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5705 test. It is now used for both.
5707 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5708 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5709 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5710 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5711 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5712 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5714 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5715 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5716 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5719 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5720 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5721 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5723 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5724 experimental DomainKeys support:
5726 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5727 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5728 the control was given.
5730 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5732 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5734 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5736 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5737 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5738 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5741 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5742 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5743 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5744 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5745 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5746 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5749 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5750 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5751 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5752 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5753 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5754 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5756 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5757 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5758 do -d+all out of habit.
5760 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5761 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5764 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5765 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5766 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5767 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5768 record types that Exim uses.
5770 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5771 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5772 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5773 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5774 non-existent file that was broken.
5776 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5777 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5779 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5780 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5781 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5783 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5785 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5786 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5787 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5788 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5789 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5792 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5793 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5794 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5795 at a slight CPU cost.
5797 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5798 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5800 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5803 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5805 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5806 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5812 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5813 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5815 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5817 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5819 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5820 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5822 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5823 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5824 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5825 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5826 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5827 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5830 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5831 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5832 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5833 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5836 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5837 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5838 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5839 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5840 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5841 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5842 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5845 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5846 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5848 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5849 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5850 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5851 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5852 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5853 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5855 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5856 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5857 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5858 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5860 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5863 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5864 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5866 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5867 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5868 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5869 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5872 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5874 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5875 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5877 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5878 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5879 to what was transported.)
5881 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5883 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5884 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5885 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5886 spamd_address settings.
5888 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5889 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5890 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5891 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5892 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5894 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5896 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5897 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5898 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5899 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5900 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5902 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5903 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5905 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5906 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5907 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5908 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5909 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5910 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5911 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5914 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5915 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5916 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5917 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5918 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5919 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5920 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5923 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5925 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5926 driver and ACL definitions.
5928 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5929 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5931 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5932 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5933 understands it better than I do:
5935 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5936 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5938 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5939 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5940 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5941 => three warnings about OTP not working
5942 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5944 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5945 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5946 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5947 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5949 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5950 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5952 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5953 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5954 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5956 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5957 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5960 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5961 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5964 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5965 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5966 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5968 warn !verify = sender
5969 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5971 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5972 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5974 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5976 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5977 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5979 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5980 nomenclature these days.)
5982 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5983 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5985 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5986 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5987 . First host does not offer TLS;
5988 . First host accepts first address;
5989 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5990 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5991 . Second host accepts second address.
5992 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5993 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5996 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5997 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5998 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5999 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
6000 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
6002 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
6003 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
6005 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
6006 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
6008 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
6009 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
6010 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
6012 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
6013 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
6016 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
6018 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
6019 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
6020 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
6021 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
6022 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
6023 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
6024 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
6026 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
6027 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
6028 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
6029 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
6030 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
6032 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
6033 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
6036 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
6037 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
6038 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
6039 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
6040 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
6041 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
6043 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
6045 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
6046 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
6047 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
6048 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
6049 printable escape sequences.
6051 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
6052 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
6055 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
6056 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
6059 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
6060 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
6061 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
6062 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
6063 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
6065 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
6066 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
6067 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
6069 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
6071 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
6072 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
6075 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
6076 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
6077 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
6078 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
6079 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
6080 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
6081 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
6082 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
6083 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
6086 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
6087 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
6088 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
6089 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
6093 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
6094 ----------------------------------------
6096 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
6097 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
6098 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
6099 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
6100 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
6101 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
6104 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
6105 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
6106 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
6107 historical information.
6113 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6115 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
6116 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
6118 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6119 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6122 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6123 filter fails to execute.
6125 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6126 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6127 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6128 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6129 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6131 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
6133 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6134 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6135 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6136 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6138 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6139 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6140 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6141 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6142 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6144 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
6146 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6148 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6149 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6150 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6151 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6153 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6154 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6155 sender verification.
6157 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
6158 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
6160 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
6162 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
6165 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6166 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6168 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6169 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6171 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
6172 information about exactly what failed.
6174 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
6176 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
6177 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
6178 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
6180 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
6181 It is now set to "smtps".
6183 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6184 ignore_target_hosts.
6186 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6187 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6188 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6189 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6192 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6193 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6194 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6196 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6197 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6198 wake it up if nothing else does.
6200 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6201 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6202 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6205 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6206 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6208 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
6210 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
6211 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
6212 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
6213 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
6214 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
6215 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
6216 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
6217 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
6219 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
6220 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
6221 than one IP address.
6223 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
6224 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
6225 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
6226 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
6228 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6229 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6230 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6231 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6232 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6235 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
6236 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
6237 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
6238 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
6240 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6241 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6244 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6245 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6246 $sender_host_address.
6248 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
6249 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
6250 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
6251 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
6252 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
6255 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
6257 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
6258 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
6260 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
6261 just the host names, not the priorities.
6263 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
6264 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
6265 controlled by a keyword.
6267 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
6268 multiple records are returned.
6270 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
6271 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
6274 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
6276 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
6277 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
6279 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6280 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6281 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6283 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
6285 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6287 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6289 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6290 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6291 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6292 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6293 because the tests only now provoked it.
6295 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6296 (this can affect the format of dates).
6298 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6299 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6300 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6301 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6303 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6305 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6306 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6307 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6308 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6310 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6311 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6312 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6314 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6317 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6318 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6319 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6320 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6321 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6322 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6325 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6326 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6327 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6330 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6331 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6332 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6334 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6335 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6336 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6337 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6338 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6339 so I produce this patch..."
6341 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6342 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6345 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6346 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6347 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6348 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6351 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6353 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6354 long debug lines gets shown.
6356 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6357 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6359 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6361 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6362 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6363 of $primary_hostname.
6365 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6366 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6367 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6368 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6369 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6370 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6371 by change 4.50/55 above.
6373 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6374 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6375 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6376 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6377 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6378 running as the user.
6381 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6382 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6383 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6386 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6387 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6389 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6390 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6391 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6392 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6393 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6395 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6396 This has been fixed.
6398 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6399 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6400 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6401 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6404 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6406 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6407 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6408 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6409 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6411 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6412 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6414 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6415 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6416 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6418 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6419 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6420 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6423 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6424 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6425 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6427 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6428 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6429 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6430 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6432 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6433 during host lookups.
6435 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6436 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6438 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6440 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6441 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6442 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6443 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6444 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6447 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6448 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6450 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6451 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6452 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6454 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6456 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6457 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6458 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6459 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6460 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6461 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6464 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6465 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6466 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6467 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6468 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6470 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6473 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6475 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6476 "vacation" handling.
6478 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6479 OS variants using glibc.
6481 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6484 ----------------------------------------------------
6485 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6486 ----------------------------------------------------
6492 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6493 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6496 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6497 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6500 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6501 filter fails to execute.
6503 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6504 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6505 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6506 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6507 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6509 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6510 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6511 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6512 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6514 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6515 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6516 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6517 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6518 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6520 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6522 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6523 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6524 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6525 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6527 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6528 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6529 sender verification.
6531 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6532 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6534 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6535 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6537 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6538 ignore_target_hosts.
6540 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6541 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6542 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6543 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6546 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6547 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6548 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6550 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6551 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6552 wake it up if nothing else does.
6554 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6555 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6556 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6559 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6560 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6562 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6564 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6565 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6568 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6569 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6572 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6573 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6574 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6575 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6576 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6579 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6580 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6583 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6584 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6585 $sender_host_address.
6587 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6589 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6590 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6591 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6593 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6596 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6597 (this can affect the format of dates).
6599 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6600 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6601 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6602 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6604 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6605 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6606 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6608 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6609 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6610 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6611 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6613 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6614 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6615 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6617 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6620 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6621 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6622 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6623 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6624 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6625 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6628 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6629 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6630 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6631 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6634 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6635 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6636 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6637 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6638 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6639 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6640 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6642 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6643 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6644 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6645 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6646 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6647 running as the user.
6650 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6651 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6652 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6655 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6656 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6657 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6658 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6659 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6661 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6662 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6663 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6664 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6667 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6668 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6669 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6670 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6671 because the tests only now provoked it.
6677 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6678 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6679 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6680 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6681 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6682 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6683 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6685 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6686 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6689 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6691 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6693 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6694 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6697 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6698 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6699 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6700 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6701 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6703 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6704 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6706 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6708 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6710 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6713 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6714 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6716 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6717 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6718 affecting debugging statements).
6720 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6722 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6723 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6724 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6725 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6726 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6727 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6728 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6729 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6730 after the received time, and all would be well.
6732 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6733 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6734 condition in an expansion string.
6736 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6738 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6739 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6740 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6741 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6742 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6743 job under whatever limits there are.
6745 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6747 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6750 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6751 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6752 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6753 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6756 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6757 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6758 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6759 binary data in such strings.
6761 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6763 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6764 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6765 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6766 failure, which is pointless.
6768 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6770 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6772 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6773 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6774 Sender: header lines.
6776 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6777 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6778 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6780 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6781 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6782 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6783 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6784 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6787 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6788 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6789 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6790 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6791 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6793 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6794 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6795 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6798 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6799 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6801 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6802 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6804 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6806 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6808 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6810 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6813 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6815 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6817 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6818 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6819 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6820 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6822 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6823 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6829 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6830 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6831 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6833 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6834 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6835 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6836 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6837 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6838 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6840 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6841 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6842 verification failure".
6844 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6845 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6846 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6847 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6849 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6850 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6851 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6852 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6853 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6854 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6855 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6856 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6857 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6858 treated as a timeout.
6860 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6861 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6862 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6863 not set for Exim filters).
6865 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6866 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6867 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6869 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6871 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6872 try to make them clearer.
6874 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6875 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6877 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6879 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6881 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6882 only the Cygwin environment.
6884 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6885 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6886 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6887 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6888 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6890 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6891 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6892 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6893 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6894 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6895 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6896 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6898 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6899 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6901 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6903 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6904 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6905 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6907 To: susanne@some.where
6909 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6910 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6911 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6912 of addresses in From: header lines).
6914 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6915 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6916 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6918 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6919 treated as non-personal.
6921 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6922 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6924 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6926 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6928 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6929 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6930 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6932 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6933 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6935 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6936 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6937 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6938 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6939 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6940 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6942 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6943 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6944 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6945 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6946 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6947 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6948 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6949 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6951 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6953 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6954 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6956 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6957 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6958 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6960 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6961 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6963 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6964 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6965 rather than long int.
6967 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6969 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6975 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6976 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6977 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6978 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6979 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6980 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6986 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6987 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6989 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6990 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6991 socklen_t is defined.
6993 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6996 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6999 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
7000 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
7001 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
7002 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
7003 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
7005 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
7006 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
7007 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
7008 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
7010 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
7011 of flapping under certain conditions.
7013 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
7014 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
7015 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
7017 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
7019 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
7021 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
7022 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
7023 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
7024 the duration of the SMTP connection.
7026 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
7027 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
7028 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
7029 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
7030 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
7031 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
7032 preserved with the message after it was received.
7034 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
7035 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
7036 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
7037 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
7038 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
7039 test suite worked just fine.
7041 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
7042 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
7043 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
7045 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
7046 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
7049 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
7050 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
7051 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
7052 does not fully solve it.
7054 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
7055 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
7056 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
7057 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
7058 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
7060 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
7061 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
7062 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
7064 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
7065 string, for example:
7067 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
7069 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
7070 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
7071 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
7072 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
7073 the routers could not see them.
7075 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
7076 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
7078 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
7079 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
7082 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
7083 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
7084 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
7085 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
7086 that needed quoting.
7088 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
7089 was not being matched caselessly.
7091 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
7094 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
7095 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
7096 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
7097 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
7098 when use_sender is false.
7100 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
7102 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
7104 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
7106 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
7107 the configuration file.
7109 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
7110 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
7112 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
7114 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
7115 bytes in the message body.
7117 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
7118 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
7121 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
7123 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
7125 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
7126 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
7127 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
7128 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
7135 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
7136 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
7138 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
7139 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
7140 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
7141 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
7142 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
7144 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
7145 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
7147 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
7148 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
7149 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
7151 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
7152 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
7153 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
7155 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
7158 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
7159 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
7160 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
7161 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
7162 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
7163 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
7164 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
7170 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
7171 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
7172 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
7173 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
7174 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
7175 default (and expected) setting.
7177 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
7178 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
7179 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
7180 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
7182 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
7183 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
7185 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
7188 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
7189 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
7190 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
7191 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
7192 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
7193 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
7195 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
7196 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
7197 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
7199 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
7200 part (NOT match_host).
7202 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
7204 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
7205 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
7206 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
7207 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
7208 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
7209 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
7210 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
7211 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
7212 the same named file.
7214 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
7215 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
7218 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
7219 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
7220 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
7221 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
7224 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
7225 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
7226 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
7228 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
7230 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
7232 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
7234 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
7235 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
7237 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
7238 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
7239 before starting the TLS session.
7241 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
7243 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
7244 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
7246 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
7247 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
7248 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
7249 colon in the middle).
7255 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
7256 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
7257 multiple configurations are in use.
7259 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
7260 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
7261 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
7262 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
7263 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
7264 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
7266 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
7267 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
7269 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
7270 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
7271 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
7273 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
7274 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
7277 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
7278 that used bh_ and bheader_.
7280 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
7282 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
7283 allowing one more file than it should have been.
7285 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7293 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7294 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7295 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7296 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7297 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7299 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7302 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7303 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7304 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7305 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7306 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7307 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7309 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7310 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7311 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7312 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7313 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7314 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7315 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7318 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7319 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7320 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7321 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7322 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7324 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7326 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7327 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7328 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7330 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7332 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7333 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7334 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7337 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7338 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7340 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7341 Three changes have been made:
7343 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7344 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7345 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7346 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7347 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7349 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7352 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7353 the modified behaviour.
7359 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7362 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7363 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7365 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7366 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7367 try to track down a specific problem.
7369 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7370 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7371 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7373 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7376 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7377 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7378 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7379 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7380 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7381 some earlier ones do not.
7383 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7385 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7386 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7387 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7388 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7389 address literals are enabled, of course).
7391 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7393 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7394 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7395 by a command such as
7399 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7401 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7403 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7404 remained set. It is now erased.
7406 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7407 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7409 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7410 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7411 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7412 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7413 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7414 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7415 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7416 appropriate error code.
7418 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7419 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7420 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7421 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7422 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7423 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7425 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7426 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7427 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7429 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7430 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7431 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7432 terminate the header.
7434 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7435 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7436 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7438 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7439 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7440 (4.30/29). In particular:
7442 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7445 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7446 to write a maildirsize file.
7448 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7449 the transport, the new value overrides.
7451 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7454 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7455 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7456 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7459 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7460 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7461 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7464 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7465 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7466 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7468 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7469 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7472 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7473 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7474 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7476 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7478 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7480 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7482 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7483 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7486 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7487 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7488 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7489 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7490 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7491 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7492 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7495 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7496 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7497 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7498 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7499 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7502 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7503 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7504 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7505 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7506 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7507 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7508 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7509 cached value only when the same options are set.
7511 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7513 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7514 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7515 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7516 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7517 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7519 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7520 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7521 it is clearly obsolete.
7523 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7526 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7527 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7528 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7531 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7532 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7533 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7534 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7535 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7537 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7538 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7539 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7540 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7542 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7544 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7546 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7547 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7550 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7551 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7552 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7553 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7554 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7555 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7558 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7559 with the -f command-line option.
7561 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7562 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7563 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7564 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7565 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7566 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7568 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7569 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7572 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7573 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7574 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7575 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7576 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7577 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7578 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7579 buffer is too small.
7581 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7582 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7584 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7585 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7586 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7587 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7588 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7589 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7590 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7591 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7592 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7594 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7595 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7596 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7598 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7599 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7602 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7603 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7604 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7605 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7606 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7608 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7609 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7610 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7611 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7614 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7616 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7618 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7619 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7621 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7622 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7623 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7625 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7626 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7627 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7628 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7629 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7631 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7632 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7633 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7634 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7635 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7636 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7637 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7639 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7640 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7641 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7642 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7643 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7644 the test of how many are available.
7646 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7647 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7648 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7649 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7650 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7651 new message is started.
7653 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7654 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7656 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7657 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7659 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7660 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7661 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7664 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7665 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7666 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7667 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7668 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7669 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7670 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7672 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7673 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7674 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7675 interpreted as octal.
7677 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7680 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7681 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7682 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7683 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7684 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7685 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7687 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7688 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7689 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7690 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7692 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7693 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7694 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7695 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7697 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7698 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7701 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7702 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7704 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7706 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7707 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7708 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7709 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7711 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7712 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7713 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7714 supplied", which is not helpful.
7716 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7717 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7718 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7720 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7721 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7722 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7723 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7724 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7725 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7726 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7727 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7729 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7730 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7731 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7732 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7733 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7735 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7736 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7737 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7738 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7739 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7740 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7742 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7743 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7744 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7746 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7748 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7749 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7750 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7753 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7755 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7756 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7757 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7758 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7759 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7760 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7761 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7762 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7764 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7765 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7766 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7767 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7768 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7770 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7773 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7774 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7775 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7776 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7777 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7778 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7779 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7780 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7781 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7787 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7788 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7789 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7791 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7794 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7795 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7796 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7798 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7799 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7800 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7801 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7802 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7803 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7805 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7806 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7807 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7808 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7809 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7810 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7811 the Exim test suite.
7813 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7814 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7815 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7816 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7818 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7819 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7820 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7821 specify it in this variable.
7823 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7824 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7825 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7826 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7828 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7829 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7830 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7831 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7833 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7834 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7835 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7836 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7837 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7839 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7841 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7844 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7845 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7846 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7847 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7848 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7850 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7851 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7853 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7854 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7855 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7856 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7857 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7859 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7860 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7862 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7863 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7864 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7866 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7867 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7869 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7870 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7872 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7873 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7874 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7876 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7877 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7879 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7880 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7881 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7882 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7884 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7886 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7887 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7888 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7889 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7891 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7893 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7894 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7896 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7898 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7899 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7900 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7901 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7902 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7903 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7905 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7907 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7908 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7911 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7913 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7914 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7916 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7917 550 Sender verify failed
7919 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7920 the final line of the response.
7922 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7923 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7924 all other user lookups.
7926 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7929 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7930 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7931 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7932 result into an int without checking.
7934 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7935 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7936 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7938 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7939 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7940 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7941 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7943 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7946 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7947 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7949 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7950 to the empty sender.
7952 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7953 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7954 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7955 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7956 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7957 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7958 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7961 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7962 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7963 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7964 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7967 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7968 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7970 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7973 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7974 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7976 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7978 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7979 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7982 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7983 as soon as it is encountered.
7985 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7987 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7990 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7991 recognizes a tab character.
7993 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7994 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7995 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7996 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7998 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
8000 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
8003 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
8005 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
8007 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
8008 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
8011 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
8012 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
8013 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
8014 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
8015 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
8017 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
8018 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
8020 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
8021 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
8022 list (.included file names were always shown).
8024 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
8025 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
8026 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
8029 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
8030 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
8032 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
8034 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
8036 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
8038 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
8039 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
8040 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
8041 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
8042 failures to open the logs.
8044 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
8045 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
8046 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
8047 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
8048 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
8049 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
8050 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
8056 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
8057 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
8058 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
8061 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
8062 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
8063 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
8065 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
8066 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
8067 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
8069 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
8070 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
8071 causing some misleading effects.
8073 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
8074 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
8075 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
8077 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
8078 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
8079 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
8080 queue-runner function directly.
8086 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
8089 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
8090 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
8091 was always written to the default place.
8093 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
8094 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
8095 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
8097 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
8099 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
8101 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
8102 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
8103 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
8105 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
8106 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
8109 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
8110 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
8111 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
8113 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
8114 command line option is disabled.
8116 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
8117 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
8119 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
8121 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
8123 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
8124 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
8126 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
8128 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
8129 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
8130 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
8131 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
8132 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
8133 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
8135 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
8136 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
8139 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
8140 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
8142 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
8143 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
8145 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
8146 received was valid base64.
8148 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
8149 name of the variable that was being set.
8151 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
8153 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
8154 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
8155 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
8156 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
8157 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
8158 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
8160 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
8162 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
8163 nor realm was specified.
8165 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
8166 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
8167 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
8168 errors are given to SMTP connections.
8170 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
8171 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
8172 failing to send a response to QUIT.
8174 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
8175 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
8176 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
8178 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
8179 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
8180 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
8181 some systems use these upper case variants.
8183 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
8184 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
8185 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
8186 socket" when it tried to send the third.
8188 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
8190 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
8191 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
8193 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
8194 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
8197 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
8199 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
8200 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
8201 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
8202 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
8204 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
8207 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
8208 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
8209 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
8211 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
8212 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
8214 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
8215 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
8216 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
8217 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
8219 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
8220 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
8221 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
8223 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
8225 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
8226 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
8227 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
8228 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
8231 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
8232 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
8233 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
8235 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
8237 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
8238 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
8240 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
8241 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
8243 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
8244 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
8245 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
8246 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
8247 when emails are that large.
8254 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
8255 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
8257 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
8258 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
8259 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
8261 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
8262 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
8263 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
8265 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
8266 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
8267 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
8268 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
8269 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
8271 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
8272 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
8273 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
8274 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
8275 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
8278 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
8279 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
8280 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
8281 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
8282 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
8283 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
8284 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
8285 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8286 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8287 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8288 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8289 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8290 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8291 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8293 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8294 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8297 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8298 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8299 error should be diagnosed.
8301 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8302 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8303 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8304 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8305 appeared instead of "NULL".
8307 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8308 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8309 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8310 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8311 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8312 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8315 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8316 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8317 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8323 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8324 or receiver verification errors.
8326 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8329 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8330 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8331 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8332 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8334 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8335 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8336 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8337 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8338 shouldn't happen again.
8340 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8341 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8342 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8344 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8345 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8347 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8349 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8350 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8352 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8353 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8356 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8357 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8358 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8360 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8361 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8362 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8363 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8365 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8366 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8367 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8368 to define what should happen).
8370 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8371 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8372 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8374 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8376 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8378 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8379 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8381 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8382 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8383 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8384 structure in all cases.
8386 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8387 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8388 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8389 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8391 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8392 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8395 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8396 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8398 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8399 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8401 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8402 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8403 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8405 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8406 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8407 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8409 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8410 the book and for uniformity.
8412 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8414 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8415 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8416 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8417 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8418 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8419 non-existent command as the problem.
8421 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8422 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8423 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8425 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8427 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8428 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8429 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8431 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8432 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8433 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8434 timestamps using strftime().
8436 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8437 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8439 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8440 transport-time rewrites.
8442 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8443 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8444 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8445 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8447 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8448 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8450 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8451 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8452 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8453 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8456 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8457 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8458 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8459 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8460 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8461 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8462 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8464 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8465 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8466 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8467 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8468 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8470 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8471 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8472 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8473 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8474 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8475 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8476 remaining text gets split now.
8478 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8479 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8480 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8481 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8483 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8484 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8485 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8486 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8489 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8490 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8491 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8492 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8493 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8494 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8495 passed through if needed.
8497 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8498 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8499 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8500 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8501 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8502 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8504 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8505 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8506 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8507 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8508 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8510 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8511 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8512 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8513 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8514 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8516 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8517 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8520 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8521 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8522 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8523 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8524 mayhem of various kinds.
8526 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8527 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8528 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8529 the right test for positive values.
8531 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8532 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8533 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8534 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8535 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8536 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8537 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8538 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8539 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8540 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8543 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8546 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8547 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8550 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8551 the existing equality matching.
8553 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8554 dealing with inode numbers.
8556 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8557 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8558 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8560 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8561 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8562 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8563 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8566 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8567 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8568 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8569 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8570 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8571 relay addresses has also been removed.
8573 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8575 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8576 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8577 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8579 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8580 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8581 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8582 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8583 processing applies to CR:
8585 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8586 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8588 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8589 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8590 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8591 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8593 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8594 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8595 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8597 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8598 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8599 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8600 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8601 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8602 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8605 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8608 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8609 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8610 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8611 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8614 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8616 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8618 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8620 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8621 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8622 not considered personal.
8624 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8626 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8628 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8630 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8631 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8632 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8633 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8634 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8635 header lines, and spool format errors.
8637 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8638 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8639 for more flexibility.
8641 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8642 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8643 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8645 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8648 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8649 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8650 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8651 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8652 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8653 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8654 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8655 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8656 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8658 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8659 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8660 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8661 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8662 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8663 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8664 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8666 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8667 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8668 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8670 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8671 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8672 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8673 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8674 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8675 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8676 instead of killing the process with assert().
8678 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8679 than Unicode encoding.
8681 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8682 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8683 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8684 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8686 77. Added process_log_path.
8688 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8689 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8691 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8692 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8694 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8695 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8696 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8698 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8699 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8700 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8701 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8702 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8705 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8706 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8709 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8710 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8711 they will be used during message reception.
8717 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.