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
66 JH/14 Bug 3116: Fix crash in dkim signing. On kernels supporting immutable
67 memory segments, a write was done into one when a constant string was
68 configured for a transport's dkim private key.
73 JH/01 Support list of dkim results in the dkim_status ACL condition, making
74 it more usable in the data ACL.
76 JH/02 Bug 3040: Handle error on close of the spool data file during reception.
77 Previously This was only logged, on the assumption that errors would be
78 seen for a previous fflush(). However, a fuse filesystem has been
79 reported as showing this an error for the fclose(). The spool is now in
80 an uncertain state, and we have logged and responded acceptance. Change
81 this to respond with a temp-reject, wipe spoolfiles, and log the error
84 JH/03 Bug 3030: Fix handling of DNS servfail respons for DANE TLSA. When hit
85 during a recipient verify callout, a QUIT command was attempted on the
86 now-closed callout channel, causing a paniclog entry.
88 JH/04 Bug 3039: Fix handling of of an empty log_reject_target, with
89 a connection_reject log_selector, under tls_on_connect. Previously
90 with this combination, when the connect ACL rejected, a spurious
91 paniclog entry was made.
93 JH/05 Fix TLS resumption for TLS-on-connect. This was broken by the advent
94 of loadbalancer-detection for resumption, in 4.96 - which tries to
95 use the EHLO response. SMTPS does not have one at the time it is starting
96 TLS. Change the default for the smtp transport host_name_extract option
97 to be a static string, for TLS-on-connect cases; meaning that resumption
98 will always be attempted (unless deliberately overriden).
100 JH/06 Bug 3054: Fix dnsdb lookup for a TXT record with multiple chunks, with a
101 chunk-separator specification. This was broken by hardening introduced
104 JH/07 Bug 3050: Fix -bp for old message_id format spoolfiles. Previously it
105 included the -H with the id; this also messed up exiqgrep.
107 JH/08 Bug 3056: Tighten up parsing of DKIM DNS records. Previously, whitespace
108 was not properly skipped and empty elements would cause mis-parsing.
109 Tighten parsing of DKIM header records. Previously, all but lowercase
110 alpha chars would be ignored in potential tag names.
112 JH/09 Bug 3057: Add heuristic for spotting mistyped IPv6 addresses in lists
113 being searched. Previously we only had one for IPv4 addresses. Per the
114 documentation, the error results by default in a no-match result for the
115 list. It is logged if the unknown_in_list log_selector is used.
117 JH/10 Bug 3058: Ensure that a failing expansion in a router "set" option defers
118 the routing operation. Previously it would silently stop routing the
121 JH/11 Bug 3046: Fix queue-runs. Previously, the arrivel of a notification or
122 info-request event close in time to a scheduled run timer could result in
123 the latter being missed, and no further queue scheduled runs being
124 initiated. This ouwld be more likely on high-load systems.
126 JH/12 Refuse to accept a line "dot, LF" as end-of-DATA unless operating in
127 LF-only mode (as detected from the first header line). Previously we did
128 accept that in (normal) CRLF mode; this has been raised as a possible
129 attack scenario (under the name "smtp smuggling").
131 JH/13 Add an fdatasync call for the received message data file in spool, before
132 loggging reception and sending the SMTP ack. Previously we only flushed
133 the stdio buffer so there was still the possibility of a disk error.
135 JH/14 Bug 3061: Avoid a split log line when trying to rewrite a malformed
136 address. Previously, for the last address in a header line (commonly
137 there is only one) the terminating newline was part of the logged
140 JH/15 Bug 3061: Ensure a log line is written for a malformed address in a
141 header, when parsing for address-qualification. Previously one was only
142 written if there were rewrite rules.
144 JH/16 Two-phase queue runs are now reported in the daemon startup log line and
147 JH/17 Bug 3064: Fix combination of "-q<period> -R <recipients>". Introduction of
148 the multiple-queue-runners facility for 4.97 broke this, giving only a
149 one-time run of the queue.
151 JH/18 Bug 3068: Log a warning for use of deprecated syntax in query-style
154 JH/19 Fix TLS startup. When the last expansion done before the initiation of a
155 TLS session resulted in a forced-fail, a misleading error was logged for
156 the expansino of tls_certificates. This would affect the common case of
157 that option being set (main-section options) but not having any variable
158 parts. It could also potentially affect tls_privatekeys. The underlyding
159 coding errors go back to 4.90 but were only exposed in 4.97.
161 JH/20 Bug 3047: A recent (somewhere between 10.34 and 10.42) version of the
162 pcre2 library starting allocating 20kB rather than 112 bytes per match
163 call, which broke the 2GB total limitation on Exim's memory management
164 when a user had over 104207 messages stored and the appendfile
165 maildir_quota_directory_regex option is in use. Release the allocated
166 memory every thosand files to avoid this.
167 The same issue arises with the ACL regex condition, which is applied
168 to every line of a received message.
170 JH/21 Bug 3059: Fix crash in smtp transport. When running for a message for
171 which all recipients had been handled (itself an issue) a null-pointer
172 deref was done on trying to write a retry record. Fix that by counting
173 the outstanding recipients before trying to transmit the message.
174 The situation arose for a second MX try within a transport run, when the
175 first had perm-rejected a recipient (the only one for the connection, in
176 the case seen) during pipelining, and then closed the TCP connection.
177 The transport classified that as an I/O error, leaving the message
178 outstanding but having marked up the recipient as dealt-with. It then
179 tried another MX because of the I/O error. Fix this by converting the
180 message-level status to ok if there was a close but all recipients were
181 dealt with. Thanks to Wolfgand Breyha for debug runs.
183 JH/22 The ESMTP_LIMITS facility (RFC 9422) is promoted from experimental status
184 and is now controlled by the build-time option DISABLE_ESMTP_LIMITS.
186 JH/23 Bug 3066: Avoid leaking lookup database credentials to log.
188 JH/24 Bug 3081: Fix a delivery process crash. When the router "errors_to"
189 option specified a fixed address, later rewriting on that address would
190 trip on the configuration data being readonly. Instead of modifying
191 in-place, copy data. Found and fixed by Peter Benie.
193 JH/25 Bug 3079: Fix crash in dbmnz. When a key was present for zero-length
194 data a null pointer was followed. Find and testcase by Sebastian Bugge.
196 JH/26 Fix encoding for an AUTH parameter on a MAIL FROM command. Previously
197 decimal 127 chars were not encoded, and lowercase hex was used for
198 encoded values. Outstanding since at least 1999.
200 JH/27 Fix crash in logging. When a message with a large number of recipients
201 had been received, and logging of recipients is enabled, the buffer used
202 for logging could reach limit. A read using a null pointer would then
203 be done, resulting in a crash of the receiving process before an SMTP
204 ACK for the message was returned to the sending system. Duplicate
205 messages were created as a result.
206 Find and debug help by Mateusz Krawczyk
208 JH/28 Bug 3086: Fix exinext for ipv6. Change the format of keys in the retry
209 DB, wrapping transport record bare-ip "host names" and ipv6
210 "host addresses" in square-brackets. This makes the parsing that
211 exinext does more reliable.
213 JH/29 Bug 3087: Fix SRS encode. A zero-length quoted element in the local-part
216 JH/30 Bug 3029: Avoid feeding Resent-From: to DMARC.
218 JH/31 Bug 3027: For -bh / -bhc tests change to using the compressed form of
219 ipv6 addresses for the sender. Previously the uncompressed form was used,
220 and if used in textual form this would result in behavior difference
223 JH/32 Bug 3096: MAIL before HELO/EHLO, where required by hosts_require_helo, is
224 now classed as a protocol error and subject to smtp_max_synprot_errors.
226 JH/33 Bug 2994: A subdir dsearch lookup should permit a directory name that starts
227 ".." and has following characters.
229 JH/34 Fix delivery ordering for 2-phase queue run combined with
232 JH/35 Bug 3099: fix parsing of MIME filename= split over multiple paramemters.
233 Previously the $mime_filename variable would have an incorrect value.
234 While in the code, extend coverage to name= which previously was only
235 supported for single parameters, despite also filling in $mime_filename.
241 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
242 SMTP connection" log lines.
244 JH/02 Option default value updates:
245 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
246 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
248 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
250 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
251 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
252 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
254 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
255 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
256 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
259 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
260 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
262 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
263 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
264 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
266 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
267 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
268 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
269 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
270 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
272 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
273 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
276 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
277 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
279 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
280 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
281 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
283 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
284 API changes in libopendmarc.
286 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
287 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
288 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
290 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
291 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
293 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
294 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
295 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
298 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
299 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
302 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
303 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
304 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
305 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
306 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
307 is strictly an incompatible change.
308 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
309 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
311 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
312 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
313 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
314 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
317 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
318 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
319 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
320 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
322 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
323 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
324 itself returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
325 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
326 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
327 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
330 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
331 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
334 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
335 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
336 to not checking that list for these lookups.
338 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
341 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
342 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
343 was done, killing the process.
345 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
346 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
347 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
350 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
351 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
352 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
353 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
355 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
356 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
358 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
361 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
362 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
363 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
364 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
365 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
366 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
367 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
369 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
370 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
371 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
372 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
373 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
374 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
375 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
376 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
377 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
378 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
380 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
381 usable until about year 3700.
382 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
383 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
384 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
385 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
386 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
387 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
388 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
389 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
390 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
391 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
392 wait- hints databases.
394 JH/30 Bug 3006: Fix handling of JSON strings having embedded commas. Previously
395 we treated them as item separators when parsing for a list item, but they
396 need to be protected by the doublequotes. While there, add handling for
399 JH/31 Bug 2998: Fix ${utf8clean:...} to disallow UTF-16 surrogate codepoints.
400 Found and fixed by Jasen Betts. No testcase for this as my usual text
401 editor insists on emitting only valid UTF-8.
403 JH/32 Fix "tls_dhparam = none" under GnuTLS. At least with 3.7.9 this gave
404 a null-indirection SIGSEGV for the receive process.
406 JH/33 Fix free for live variable $value created by a ${run ...} expansion during
407 -bh use. Internal checking would spot this and take a panic.
409 JH/34 Bug 3013: Fix use of $recipients within arguments for ${run...}.
410 In 4.96 this would expand to empty.
412 JH/35 Bug 3014: GnuTLS: fix expiry date for an auto-generated server
413 certificate. Find and fix by Andreas Metzler.
415 JH/36 Add ARC info to DMARC hostory records.
417 JH/37 Bug 3016: Avoid sending DSN when message was accepted under fakereject
418 or fakedefer. Previously the sender could discover that the message
419 had in fact been accepted.
421 JH/38 Taint-track intermediate values from the peer in multi-stage authentation
422 sequences. Previously the input was not noted as being tainted; notably
423 this resulted in behaviour of LOGIN vs. PLAIN being inconsistent under
424 bad coding of authenticators.
426 JH/39 Bug 3023: Fix crash induced by some combinations of zero-length strings
427 and ${tr...}. Found and diagnosed by Heiko Schlichting.
429 JH/40 Bug 2999: Fix a possible OOB write in the external authenticator, which
430 could be triggered by externally-supplied input. Found by Trend Micro.
433 JH/41 Bug 3000: Fix a possible OOB write in the SPA authenticator, which could
434 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
437 JH/42 Bug 3001: Fix a possible OOB read in the SPA authenticator, which could
438 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
441 JH/43 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
442 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
443 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
445 JH/44 Bug 3033: Harden dnsdb lookups against crafted DNS responses.
448 HS/02 Fix string_is_ip_address() CVE-2023-42117 (Bug 3031)
454 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
455 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
456 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
459 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
460 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
462 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
463 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
464 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
465 not be modified by local-scan code.
467 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
468 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
470 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
471 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
474 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
475 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
477 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
478 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
481 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
482 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
483 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
485 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
486 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
487 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
489 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
490 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
491 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
492 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
493 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
494 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
495 Assorted crashes happen.
497 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
498 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
499 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
502 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
503 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
504 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
505 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
507 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
508 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
509 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
512 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
514 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
515 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
518 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
519 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
520 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
522 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
523 result of expansion operators and items.
525 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
526 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
527 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
528 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
530 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
532 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
533 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
534 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
535 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
538 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
539 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
541 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
542 Previously only the domain part was returned.
544 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
545 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
546 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
547 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
549 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
550 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
551 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
552 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
554 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
555 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
556 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
557 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
558 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
561 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
562 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
563 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
565 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
566 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
567 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
568 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
570 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
571 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
572 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
573 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
575 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
576 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
577 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
578 Previously only the server IP was used.
580 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
581 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
582 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
583 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
585 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
586 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
587 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
589 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
590 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
591 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
594 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
595 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
597 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
598 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
604 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
605 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
606 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
608 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
609 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
610 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
611 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
613 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
614 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
615 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
616 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
617 so could be handling tainted values.
619 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
620 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
621 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
623 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
624 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
625 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
628 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
629 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
630 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
631 to align better with RFC 6125.
633 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
634 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
635 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
636 by adding a release action in that path.
638 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
639 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
640 dynamically-created buffers.
642 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
643 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
644 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
645 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
647 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
648 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
649 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
650 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
652 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
653 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
654 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
656 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
657 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
658 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
659 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
661 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
662 excluded, not matching the documentation.
664 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
665 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
667 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
668 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
669 this was a coding error.
671 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
672 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
673 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
674 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
675 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
676 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
677 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
679 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
680 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
681 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
682 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
684 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
685 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
686 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
687 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
688 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
690 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
691 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
694 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
695 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
696 domain-parking registrar.
698 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
699 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
700 after removing the newline.
702 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
703 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
704 option set, which was previously used.
706 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
709 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
710 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
711 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
712 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
714 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
715 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
716 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
717 exim.dev.20160529.3).
719 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
720 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
721 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
723 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
724 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
725 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
728 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
729 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
730 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
732 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
733 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
734 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
735 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
738 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
739 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
740 there, handle PRX and TFO.
742 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
743 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
744 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
745 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
746 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
748 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
749 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
750 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
751 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
754 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
755 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
757 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
760 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
761 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
762 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
763 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
764 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
766 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
768 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
769 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
770 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
771 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
772 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
773 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
775 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
776 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
778 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
779 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
780 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
782 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
783 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
786 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
787 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
788 of a new variable: $auth4.
790 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
791 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
792 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
793 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
794 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
796 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
797 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
798 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
799 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
801 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
802 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
803 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
805 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
806 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
807 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
808 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
811 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
812 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the store could not be freed.
813 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
816 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
817 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
818 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
819 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
821 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
822 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
824 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
825 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
826 looked as if if might be one.
828 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
829 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
830 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
831 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
832 messages can show the proxy information.
834 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
835 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
836 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
837 "queue_time_exclusive".
839 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
840 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
841 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
843 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
844 making it unusable in complex expressions.
846 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
847 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
850 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
852 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
854 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
856 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
857 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
858 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
859 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
861 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
862 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
864 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
865 better. Reported by Qualys.
867 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
868 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
871 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
873 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
876 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
878 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
879 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
880 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
881 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
883 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
884 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
886 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
887 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
888 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
889 mode until after various protocol state checks.
890 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
892 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
894 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
895 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
897 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
900 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
901 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
902 executed child processes (if any).
904 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
907 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
908 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
909 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
910 been reported on other platforms.
912 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
914 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
915 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
916 Not supported on Solaris 10.
918 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
919 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
920 since fakereject was originally introduced.
922 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
923 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
925 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
926 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
927 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
930 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
931 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
932 which only permit IP addresses.
938 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
939 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
940 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
942 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
944 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
945 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
948 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
949 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
950 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
952 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
954 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
956 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
957 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
958 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
960 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
961 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
962 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
964 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
965 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
967 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
968 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
971 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
972 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
973 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
974 should both provide the file and set the option.
975 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
977 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
978 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
980 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
981 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
982 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
983 Authentication-Results: header.
985 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
986 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
987 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
988 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
990 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
991 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
992 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
993 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
994 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
995 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
996 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
998 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
999 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
1000 copies while it is still usable.
1002 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
1003 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
1004 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
1006 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
1007 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
1009 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
1010 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
1011 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
1012 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
1014 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
1015 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
1016 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
1019 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
1020 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
1021 - the pipe transport command
1022 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
1023 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
1025 - paths used by single-key lookups
1026 Previously this was permitted.
1028 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
1029 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
1030 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
1031 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
1033 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
1034 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
1035 support larger malloc requests.
1037 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
1038 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
1039 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
1040 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
1042 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
1043 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
1044 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
1045 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
1048 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
1049 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
1050 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
1051 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
1052 data being length-specified.
1054 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
1055 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
1056 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
1057 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
1059 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
1060 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
1061 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
1062 not being properly tracked.
1064 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
1065 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
1066 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
1067 minute could be seen.
1069 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
1070 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
1071 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
1073 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
1074 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
1076 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
1077 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
1080 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
1082 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
1083 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
1085 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
1086 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
1087 filesystem as sufficient validation.
1089 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
1090 argument is supplied.
1092 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
1093 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
1094 access under Exim's current working directory.
1096 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
1097 Previously no event was raised.
1099 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
1100 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
1101 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
1104 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
1105 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
1106 the size of the signature hash.
1108 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
1109 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
1111 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
1112 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
1113 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
1114 dropped between messages.
1116 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
1117 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
1118 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
1119 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
1121 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
1122 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
1123 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
1124 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
1125 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
1126 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
1127 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
1128 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
1129 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
1131 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
1132 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
1133 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
1135 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
1136 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
1143 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
1144 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
1146 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
1147 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
1148 its own TCP segment.
1150 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
1153 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
1155 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
1157 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
1158 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
1160 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
1161 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
1162 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
1163 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
1164 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
1165 suitably configured).
1167 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
1168 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
1170 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
1171 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
1174 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
1175 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
1177 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
1178 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
1179 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
1180 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
1183 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
1184 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
1185 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
1187 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
1190 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
1191 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
1193 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
1194 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
1195 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
1196 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
1199 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1200 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
1201 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
1202 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
1203 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
1205 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1206 shared (NFS) environment.
1208 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
1209 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
1212 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
1213 on some platforms for bit 31.
1215 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
1216 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
1217 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
1218 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
1219 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
1220 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
1221 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
1222 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
1224 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
1226 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
1227 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
1229 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
1230 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
1233 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
1234 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
1237 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
1238 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
1239 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
1242 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
1243 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
1244 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
1246 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
1247 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
1248 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
1249 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
1250 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
1252 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
1255 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
1256 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
1257 be requested on all coneections.
1259 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
1260 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
1262 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
1264 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
1265 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
1266 one for these; the option was ignored.
1268 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
1269 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
1270 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
1271 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
1273 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
1274 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
1275 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
1278 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
1279 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
1280 error ignored was made.
1282 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
1284 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
1285 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
1286 values, to catch one form of exploit.
1288 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
1289 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1290 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1292 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1293 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1296 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1297 them in our smtp response.
1299 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1300 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1301 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1302 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1303 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1305 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1306 link count into consideration.
1308 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1309 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1311 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1312 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1313 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1316 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1318 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1320 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1322 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1323 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1324 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1325 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1327 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1329 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1330 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1333 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1334 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1335 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1337 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1338 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1339 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1341 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1342 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1343 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1344 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1345 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1346 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1347 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1348 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1350 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1351 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1352 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1354 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1355 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1356 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1358 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1359 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1366 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1367 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1369 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1370 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1372 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1373 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1374 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1376 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1377 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1378 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1380 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1381 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1382 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1383 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1384 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1387 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1388 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1390 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1391 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1392 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1393 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1394 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1395 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1396 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1398 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1399 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1401 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1404 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1405 Previously this would segfault.
1407 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1410 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1411 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1412 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1413 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1414 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1415 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1417 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1419 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1420 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1421 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1422 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1424 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1426 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1427 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1428 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1429 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1431 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1433 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1435 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1436 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1437 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1439 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1440 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1441 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1443 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1445 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1446 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1447 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1448 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1450 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1451 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1452 promised '?' replacement.
1454 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1456 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1457 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1458 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1459 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1460 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1462 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1463 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1464 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1466 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1467 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1468 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1470 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1471 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1472 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1474 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1475 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1476 hope that is portable enough.
1478 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1479 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1480 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1481 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1483 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1484 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1485 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1487 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1488 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1489 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1490 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1492 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1493 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1495 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1496 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1497 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1498 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1500 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1501 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1502 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1504 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1505 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1506 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1507 the previous G, M, k.
1509 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1510 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1513 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1514 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1515 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1516 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1518 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1519 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1521 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1522 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1523 off past the nul-terimation.
1525 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1526 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1527 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1528 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1529 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1531 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1533 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1534 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1535 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1538 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1539 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1541 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1542 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1543 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1545 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1546 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1547 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1549 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1550 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1556 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1557 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1558 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1559 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1560 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1561 be defined in redis_servers.
1563 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1564 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1566 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1567 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1568 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1569 extant use locations.
1571 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1572 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1574 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1575 Previously only the last row was returned.
1577 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1578 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1579 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1580 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1583 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1584 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1585 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1586 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1587 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1588 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1589 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1590 Main pool for expansions.
1591 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1592 active in the testsuite.
1593 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1595 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1596 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1597 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1598 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1601 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1602 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1605 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1606 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1607 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1609 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1610 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1611 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1613 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1614 rows affected is given instead).
1616 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1617 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1619 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1620 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1621 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1622 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1623 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1625 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1626 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1627 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1629 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1630 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1631 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1632 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1635 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1636 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1637 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1640 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1642 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1643 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1645 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1646 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1647 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1649 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1650 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1651 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1654 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1655 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1657 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1658 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1659 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1661 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1662 for the build is renamed.
1664 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1665 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1666 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1668 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1669 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1670 result replacing the original.
1672 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1673 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1674 and the resources needed to be freed.
1676 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1678 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1681 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1682 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1683 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1684 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1686 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1687 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1689 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1690 newer versions of the scanner.
1692 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1693 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1694 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1695 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1696 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1697 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1698 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1700 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1701 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1702 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1703 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1704 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1705 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1706 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1707 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1708 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1709 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1711 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1712 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1714 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1716 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1717 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1719 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1720 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1722 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1723 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1724 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1726 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1727 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1728 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1729 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1731 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1732 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1735 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1736 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1738 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1739 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1740 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1741 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1742 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1744 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1745 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1748 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1749 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1751 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1754 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1755 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1756 "bare" representation.
1758 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1759 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1760 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1761 corrupted the output.
1767 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1768 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1769 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1770 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1772 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1773 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1775 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1776 This permits better logging.
1778 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1779 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1780 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1781 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1782 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1783 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1785 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1786 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1789 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1790 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1791 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1793 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1794 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1796 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1797 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1798 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1799 client, there is no benefit for these.
1800 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1801 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1802 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1805 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1806 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1808 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1809 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1810 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1812 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1813 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1815 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1816 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1817 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1818 signature and again for transmission.
1820 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1821 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1822 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1824 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1825 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1826 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1827 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1828 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1829 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1830 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1832 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1833 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1834 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1835 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1837 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1838 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1839 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1840 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1841 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1842 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1845 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1846 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1847 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1848 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1851 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1852 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1853 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1854 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1857 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1858 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1861 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1862 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1863 banner-time rejection.
1865 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1868 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1869 is the name of a transport.
1872 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1874 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1875 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1877 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1878 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1879 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1882 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1883 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1884 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1885 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1887 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1888 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1889 initial verify call returned a defer.
1891 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1892 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1894 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1895 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1897 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1898 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1900 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1901 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1903 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1904 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1907 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1908 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1910 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1911 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1912 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1914 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1915 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1916 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1917 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1919 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1920 and confused the parent.
1922 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1923 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1925 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1928 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1929 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1930 out-of-order delivery.
1932 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1933 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1934 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1937 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1938 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1941 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1942 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1943 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1945 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1946 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1947 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1948 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1949 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1950 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1952 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1953 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1954 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1956 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1957 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1958 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1960 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1961 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1962 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1963 though a different problem.
1969 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1970 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1972 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1974 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1975 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1977 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1978 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1980 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1981 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1982 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1983 before acknowledging the chunk.
1985 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1986 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1987 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1989 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1990 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1991 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1994 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1995 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1996 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1998 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1999 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
2001 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
2002 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
2003 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
2004 body hash calculated value.
2006 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
2007 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
2008 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
2010 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
2012 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
2013 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
2015 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
2016 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
2017 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
2019 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
2020 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
2021 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
2022 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
2023 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
2024 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
2026 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
2027 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
2028 past that check, despite the cost.
2030 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
2031 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
2032 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
2034 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
2035 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
2036 TLS library to consume.
2038 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
2040 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
2042 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
2043 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
2044 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
2045 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
2046 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
2047 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
2048 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
2050 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
2052 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
2054 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
2055 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
2056 should be warning-free.
2058 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
2060 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
2061 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
2063 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
2064 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
2065 general solution here.
2067 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
2068 already-broken messages in the queue.
2070 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
2072 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
2078 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
2079 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
2081 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
2082 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
2083 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
2085 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
2086 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
2087 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
2088 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
2089 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
2090 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
2091 if one fails this test.
2092 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
2093 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
2095 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
2096 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
2098 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
2099 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
2101 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
2102 in rewrites and routers.
2104 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
2105 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
2107 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
2108 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
2110 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
2112 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
2115 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
2116 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
2117 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
2118 connection after a verify cache hit.
2119 Do not update it with the verify result either.
2121 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
2122 when routing results in more than one destination address.
2124 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
2125 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
2126 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
2127 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
2128 when the cutthrough connection is made).
2130 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
2131 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
2133 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
2134 Previously they were not counted.
2136 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
2137 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
2138 that needed the lookup.
2140 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
2141 distinguished as "(=".
2143 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
2144 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
2146 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
2148 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
2149 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
2151 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
2152 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
2154 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
2155 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
2158 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
2159 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
2160 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
2161 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
2163 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
2165 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2166 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
2167 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
2169 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
2170 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
2171 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
2174 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
2175 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
2176 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
2179 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
2180 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
2181 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
2183 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
2184 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
2187 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
2189 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
2190 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
2192 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
2193 are not in the system include path.
2195 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
2196 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
2197 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
2198 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
2200 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
2201 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
2202 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
2204 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
2206 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
2207 an incoming connection.
2209 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
2212 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
2213 fallback to "prime256v1".
2215 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
2216 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
2222 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
2223 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
2224 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
2225 client dropping the TLS connection.
2227 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
2228 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
2230 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
2231 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
2232 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
2233 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
2236 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
2237 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
2238 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
2239 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
2240 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
2241 check on the next write.
2243 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
2244 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
2245 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
2246 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
2247 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
2249 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
2250 mime_regex ACL conditions.
2252 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
2253 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
2254 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
2256 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
2257 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
2258 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
2259 an authenticate fail is not an error.
2261 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
2262 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
2264 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
2265 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
2267 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
2268 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
2269 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
2272 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
2274 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
2276 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
2278 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
2279 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
2281 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
2282 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
2284 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
2286 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
2287 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
2289 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2291 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2292 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2294 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2296 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2297 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2298 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2299 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2300 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2301 they will retry in-clear.
2302 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2303 at installation time.
2305 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2306 with the $config_file variable.
2308 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2309 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2310 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2311 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2312 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2314 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2315 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2316 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2317 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2318 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2320 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2322 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2323 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2324 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2325 list order is no longer honoured.
2327 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2328 for DKIM processing.
2330 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2331 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2333 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2334 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2335 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2336 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2338 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2339 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2341 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2342 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2344 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2345 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2347 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2349 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2350 cached by the daemon.
2352 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2353 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2355 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2356 keys are given for lookup.
2358 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2359 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2360 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2361 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2363 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2364 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2365 server-side so match that on older versions.
2367 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2368 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2369 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2371 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2372 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2374 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2375 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2376 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2377 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2378 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2379 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2380 initial truncated version.
2382 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2384 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2386 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2387 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2389 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2391 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2393 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2394 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2397 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2398 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2401 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2402 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2404 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2405 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2408 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2409 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2410 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2412 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2413 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2414 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2415 extraction. Accept either.
2421 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2424 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2426 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2429 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2430 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2431 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2432 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2434 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2435 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2436 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2438 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2439 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2440 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2443 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2446 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2447 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2448 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2449 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2450 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2452 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2453 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2454 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2456 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2458 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2459 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2461 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2462 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2464 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2467 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2468 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2470 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2471 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2472 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2474 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2475 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2476 specify a port-range.
2478 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2479 timeout value per server.
2481 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2482 now have the list separator specified.
2484 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2487 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2490 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2492 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2493 rather than the verbs used.
2495 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2496 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2498 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2500 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2501 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2503 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2504 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2506 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2507 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2509 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2511 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2513 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2514 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2515 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2516 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2518 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2520 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2521 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2523 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2524 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2526 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2528 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2530 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2532 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2533 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2535 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2536 added for tls authenticator.
2538 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2544 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2545 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2546 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2547 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2548 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2549 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2550 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2552 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2553 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2554 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2555 function when detected.
2557 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2558 cause callback expansion.
2560 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2561 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2562 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2563 instead of bool when processing it.
2565 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2566 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2568 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2570 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2572 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2574 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2575 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2577 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2578 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2579 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2580 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2581 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2582 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2584 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2585 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2588 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2589 version 3.3.6 or later.
2591 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2592 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2593 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2594 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2595 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2596 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2599 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2600 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2602 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2603 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2604 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2607 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2608 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2609 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2611 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2612 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2614 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2615 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2618 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2620 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2621 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2623 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2624 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2627 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2629 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2632 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2633 output list separator was used.
2638 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2639 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2642 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2643 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2645 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2647 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2648 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2654 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2656 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2657 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2658 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2659 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2660 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2661 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2663 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2664 utilities have not been installed.
2666 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2667 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2669 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2670 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2672 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2673 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2674 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2675 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2677 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2679 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2680 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2682 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2685 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2687 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2688 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2689 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2691 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2692 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2693 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2694 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2695 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2696 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2698 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2700 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2701 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2703 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2706 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2708 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2710 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2711 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2713 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2714 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2716 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2718 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2720 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2721 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2723 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2724 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2725 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2727 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2728 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2729 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2732 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2734 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2735 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2738 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2739 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2742 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2743 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2745 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2746 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2748 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2750 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2751 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2752 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2754 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2755 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2757 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2758 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2761 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2762 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2763 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2765 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2767 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2768 Christian Aistleitner.
2770 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2772 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2773 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2775 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2776 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2778 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2779 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2781 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2782 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2784 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2785 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2787 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2788 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2789 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2791 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2793 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2794 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2797 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2799 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2800 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2807 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2809 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2810 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2812 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2815 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2816 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2819 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2821 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2822 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2823 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2824 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2825 using channel bindings instead).
2827 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2828 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2829 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2830 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2831 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2834 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2836 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2838 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2839 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2841 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2842 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2843 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2845 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2847 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2849 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2850 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2852 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2854 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2856 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2858 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2859 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2861 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2863 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2864 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2867 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2868 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2870 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2871 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2874 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2876 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2878 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2879 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2881 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2884 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2885 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2887 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2888 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2890 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2892 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2894 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2897 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2900 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2902 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2903 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2904 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2905 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2907 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2909 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2910 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2911 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2912 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2915 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2916 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2917 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2919 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2920 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2921 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2922 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2924 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2925 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2926 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2927 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2928 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2929 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2930 delivery, as in LMTP.
2932 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2933 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2935 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2937 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2941 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2942 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2943 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2944 username as equal to the username.
2946 This change corrects that bug.
2948 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2949 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2950 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2952 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2954 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2955 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2956 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2957 NULL dereference and crash.
2959 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2961 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2962 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2963 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2965 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2967 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2968 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2969 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2970 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2971 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2972 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2973 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2974 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2975 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2976 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2977 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2979 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2980 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2982 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2983 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2986 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2987 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2988 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2989 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2990 an empty string is now equivalent.
2992 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2993 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2994 not performing validation itself.
2996 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2997 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2999 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
3002 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
3004 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
3005 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
3006 other false fix of the same issue.
3007 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
3010 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
3011 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
3013 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
3014 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
3015 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
3017 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
3018 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
3019 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
3021 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
3023 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
3025 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
3026 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
3028 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
3031 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
3032 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
3033 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
3034 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
3035 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
3037 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
3038 the src/util/ subdirectory.
3040 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
3041 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
3044 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
3045 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
3046 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
3047 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
3049 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
3051 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
3052 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
3053 from multiple comments on this bug.
3055 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
3057 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
3058 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
3061 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
3062 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
3064 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
3065 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
3071 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
3073 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3079 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
3080 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
3081 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
3083 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
3085 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
3088 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
3090 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
3092 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
3094 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
3095 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
3097 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
3098 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
3100 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
3101 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
3103 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
3104 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
3105 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
3107 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
3109 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
3110 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
3112 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
3114 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
3116 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
3117 non-compliant senders.
3118 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
3120 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
3121 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
3122 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
3124 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
3125 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
3126 in spool file corruption.
3128 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
3129 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
3130 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
3133 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
3134 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
3135 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3137 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
3138 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
3140 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
3142 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
3144 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
3146 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
3147 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
3148 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
3150 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
3151 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3152 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
3153 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
3155 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
3156 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
3158 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
3159 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
3160 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
3161 resolver implementation change.
3163 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
3164 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
3166 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
3168 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
3170 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
3171 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
3173 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
3174 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
3176 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
3177 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
3179 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
3180 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
3181 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
3182 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
3183 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
3185 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3187 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
3188 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
3189 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
3191 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
3193 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
3194 read-only, out of scope).
3195 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
3197 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
3198 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
3199 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
3200 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
3202 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
3204 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
3205 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
3206 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
3207 real issues in debug logging.
3209 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
3210 assignment on my part. Fixed.
3212 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
3213 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
3214 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
3216 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
3217 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
3218 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
3221 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
3222 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
3224 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
3225 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
3226 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
3227 needs to override this, it can.
3229 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
3230 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
3231 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3233 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
3234 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
3235 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
3236 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
3238 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
3244 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
3245 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
3247 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
3249 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
3252 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
3253 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
3255 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
3256 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
3257 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
3259 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
3260 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
3261 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
3262 not safe for signals.
3264 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
3265 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
3266 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
3267 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
3270 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
3272 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
3273 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
3274 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
3275 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
3276 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
3278 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
3279 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
3280 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
3281 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
3282 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
3283 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
3285 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
3286 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
3287 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
3288 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3290 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3291 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3292 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3293 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3295 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3296 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3297 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3298 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3299 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3300 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3301 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3302 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3303 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3305 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3306 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3307 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3308 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3310 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3311 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3312 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3313 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3314 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3315 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3316 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3317 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3318 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3319 details in the main documentation.
3321 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3323 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3325 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3326 repository when doing development or release builds.
3328 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3329 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3331 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3332 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3335 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3337 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3338 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3340 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3341 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3343 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3344 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3346 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3347 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3349 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3350 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3352 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3354 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3357 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3358 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3359 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3361 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3363 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3365 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3366 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3372 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3374 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3375 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3377 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3379 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3381 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3384 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3385 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3387 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3388 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3390 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3391 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3393 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3396 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3397 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3399 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3400 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3401 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3402 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3404 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3405 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3411 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3414 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3415 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3416 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3418 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3419 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3421 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3422 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3423 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3425 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3426 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3428 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3429 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3431 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3432 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3434 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3435 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3437 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3438 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3440 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3443 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3444 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3446 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3447 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3449 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3450 SQL string expansion failure details.
3451 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3453 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3454 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3456 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3457 extern declarations in function scope.
3458 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3460 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3461 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3462 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3465 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3466 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3468 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3469 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3471 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3472 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3474 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3475 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3477 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3478 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3481 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3483 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3485 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3486 Patch by Simon Arlott
3488 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3489 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3495 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3496 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3498 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3499 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3501 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3503 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3504 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3505 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3507 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3508 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3509 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3511 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3512 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3513 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3514 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3516 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3517 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3518 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3519 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3521 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3522 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3523 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3526 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3529 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3530 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3531 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3532 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3533 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3539 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3540 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3541 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3543 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3544 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3546 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3548 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3550 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3552 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3554 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3556 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3557 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3558 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3559 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3561 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3562 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3563 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3564 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3565 more caution in buffer sizes.
3567 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3569 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3571 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3573 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3575 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3577 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3579 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3581 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3582 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3583 ignore trailing whitespace.
3585 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3587 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3590 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3591 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3593 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3594 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3595 Notification from John Horne.
3597 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3600 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3601 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3604 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3607 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3608 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3609 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3611 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3612 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3613 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3616 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3617 option (effectively making it always true).
3619 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3620 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3622 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3623 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3625 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3626 run-time user, instead of root.
3628 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3629 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3631 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3632 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3635 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3636 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3637 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3639 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3641 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3647 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3648 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3651 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3652 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3655 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3656 Patch from Alain Williams
3658 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3660 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3661 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3663 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3664 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3666 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3668 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3670 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3671 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3673 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3675 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3677 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3678 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3679 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3681 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3682 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3684 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3685 Patch by Simon Arlott
3687 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3688 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3694 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3696 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3698 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3700 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3702 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3708 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3709 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3711 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3712 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3715 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3716 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3717 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3719 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3720 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3722 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3723 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3724 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3725 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3727 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3728 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3729 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3731 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3733 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3735 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3736 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3738 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3740 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3741 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3742 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3743 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3745 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3746 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3748 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3750 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3752 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3753 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3755 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3756 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3758 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3759 that they are available at delivery time.
3761 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3763 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3764 incoming_port log selectors.
3766 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3767 setting expands to an empty string.
3769 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3770 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3772 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3773 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3775 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3776 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3778 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3779 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3781 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3782 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3784 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3785 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3787 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3789 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3790 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3792 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3793 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3795 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3797 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3798 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3800 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3802 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3804 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3807 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3808 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3810 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3811 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3813 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3814 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3816 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3817 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3819 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3820 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3822 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3823 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3825 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3826 plus update to original patch.
3828 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3830 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3831 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3833 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3835 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3837 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3839 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3841 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3842 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3844 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3845 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3847 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3848 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3850 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3851 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3853 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3855 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3857 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3859 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3865 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3866 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3867 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3869 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3870 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3871 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3872 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3873 build errors in sieve.c.
3875 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3876 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3877 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3879 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3881 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3883 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3885 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3891 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3893 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3894 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3895 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3896 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3897 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3898 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3899 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3900 for iplsearch lookups.
3902 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3903 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3904 previously such lookups could never work.
3906 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3907 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3908 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3910 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3913 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3914 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3915 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3916 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3917 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3918 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3920 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3921 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3923 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3924 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3925 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3926 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3927 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3928 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3930 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3933 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3935 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3936 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3939 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3940 by clients under certain conditions.
3942 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3943 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3945 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3947 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3948 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3950 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3952 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3954 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3956 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3957 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3959 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3961 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3962 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3964 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3966 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3968 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3969 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3970 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3971 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3973 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3974 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3975 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3977 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3978 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3980 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3982 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3984 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3986 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3987 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3988 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3994 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3995 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3998 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3999 issue a MAIL command.
4001 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
4003 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
4005 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
4006 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
4007 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
4008 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
4009 item. This has been fixed.
4011 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
4012 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
4014 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
4015 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
4017 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
4018 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
4019 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
4021 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
4023 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
4024 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
4025 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
4026 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
4027 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
4029 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
4030 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
4031 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
4033 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
4034 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
4035 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
4036 the server_setid option was incorrect.
4038 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
4040 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
4042 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
4043 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
4044 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
4045 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
4046 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
4048 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
4050 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
4051 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
4052 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
4055 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
4057 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
4059 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
4061 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
4063 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
4065 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
4066 no_callout_flush is set.
4068 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
4069 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
4070 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
4073 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
4075 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4076 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
4077 other ACL rejections are.
4079 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
4080 with slight modification.
4082 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
4083 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
4085 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
4086 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
4089 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
4090 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
4092 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
4094 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
4095 expansion side effects.
4097 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
4098 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
4099 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
4102 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
4103 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
4104 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
4106 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
4107 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
4108 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
4109 were accidentally chopped off.
4111 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
4112 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
4113 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
4114 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
4115 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
4116 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
4117 pipelining has not been advertised.
4119 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
4121 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
4122 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
4123 This has been fixed.
4125 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
4126 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
4127 reported on Solaris.
4129 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
4130 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
4131 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
4132 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
4133 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
4134 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
4135 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
4137 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
4140 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
4142 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
4144 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
4145 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
4146 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
4147 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
4148 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
4149 criteria to be more general.
4151 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
4152 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
4153 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
4154 host_all_ignored option.
4156 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
4157 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
4158 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
4159 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
4160 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
4161 is what is supposed to happen).
4163 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
4164 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
4165 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
4166 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
4167 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
4170 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
4171 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
4172 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
4173 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
4174 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
4175 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
4178 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4180 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
4181 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
4183 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
4184 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
4186 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
4188 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4190 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
4191 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
4192 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
4193 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
4194 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
4195 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
4196 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
4197 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
4198 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
4199 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
4200 least in a lot of common cases.
4202 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
4203 advertised in response to EHLO.
4209 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
4210 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
4212 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
4213 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
4215 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
4216 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
4217 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
4219 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
4220 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
4221 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
4222 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
4223 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
4229 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
4230 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
4233 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
4234 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
4235 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
4237 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
4238 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
4239 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
4240 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
4241 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
4242 rather than extend the field.
4248 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
4249 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
4250 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
4251 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
4254 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
4255 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
4256 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
4258 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
4259 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
4260 hence the _LINUX specificness.
4262 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
4263 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
4264 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
4267 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
4268 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
4269 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
4270 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
4271 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
4272 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
4273 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
4274 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
4275 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
4276 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
4277 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
4279 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
4282 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
4283 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
4284 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
4285 ignores EPIPE as well.
4287 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
4288 (quoted-printable decoding).
4290 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4291 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4293 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4295 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4297 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4299 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4300 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4302 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4305 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4306 miscellaneous code fixes
4308 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4311 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4312 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4313 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4314 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4315 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4316 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4317 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4318 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4320 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4321 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4322 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4323 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4325 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4326 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4327 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4328 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4329 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4330 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4331 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4332 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4333 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4335 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4338 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4339 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4340 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4341 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4342 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4343 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4344 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4345 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4347 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4348 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4351 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4352 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4353 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4354 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4355 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4356 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4357 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4358 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4359 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4360 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4361 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4362 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4363 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4365 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4366 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4367 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4368 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4369 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4370 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4371 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4373 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4374 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4375 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4376 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4377 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4378 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4379 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4380 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4381 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4382 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4384 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4385 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4386 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4387 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4388 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4390 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4391 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4392 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4393 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4394 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4395 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4396 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4398 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4399 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4400 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4401 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4402 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4403 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4406 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4407 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4408 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4411 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4412 if any retry times were supplied.
4414 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4415 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4416 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4418 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4420 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4422 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4423 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4424 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4425 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4426 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4427 before) are ignored.
4429 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4430 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4432 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4433 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4434 committing the later change.]
4436 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4437 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4438 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4439 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4440 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4441 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4442 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4443 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4444 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4446 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4447 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4448 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4449 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4450 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4451 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4452 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4453 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4454 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4456 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4457 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4458 hammering the server.
4460 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4461 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4463 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4465 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4466 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4467 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4469 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4470 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4471 one case where this was not true.
4473 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4474 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4475 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4476 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4479 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4480 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4481 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4482 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4483 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4484 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4485 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4486 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4487 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4490 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4491 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4492 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4493 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4495 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4496 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4498 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4499 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4500 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4502 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4504 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4506 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4508 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4509 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4510 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4511 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4513 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4514 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4516 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4517 be meaningful with "accept".
4519 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4520 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4522 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4523 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4524 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4526 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4527 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4528 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4529 there is data to show.
4530 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4532 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4533 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4534 as well as the number of messages.
4536 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4537 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4538 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4540 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4541 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4542 have a flag are now skipped.
4544 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4545 Added the -emptyok flag.
4547 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4548 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4550 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4551 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4552 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4554 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4557 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4558 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4560 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4562 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4563 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4565 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4567 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4568 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4569 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4570 contravention of the specifications.
4572 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4573 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4574 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4576 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4577 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4578 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4580 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4582 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4583 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4584 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4585 some point in the past.
4587 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4588 transport during callout processing was broken.
4590 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4591 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4593 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4594 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4596 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4597 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4599 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4605 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4606 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4608 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4609 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4610 there is data to show.
4611 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4613 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4614 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4616 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4617 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4619 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4620 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4622 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4623 submissions from trusted users.
4625 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4626 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4628 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4629 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4630 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4631 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4632 there is now a framework to start from.
4634 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4635 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4636 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4638 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4640 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4642 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4644 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4645 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4646 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4648 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4651 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4652 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4653 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4655 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4656 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4657 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4660 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4661 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4662 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4663 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4664 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4666 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4667 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4669 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4671 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4672 operations in malware.c.
4674 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4677 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4678 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4679 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4682 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4683 statements to "add_header".
4685 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4686 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4688 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4689 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4692 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4696 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4697 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4698 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4701 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4702 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4704 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4705 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4707 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4708 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4709 any possible encoding problems.
4711 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4712 but not after initializing Perl.
4714 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4715 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4716 apparently, which is not desirable.
4718 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4721 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4724 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4726 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4727 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4728 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4729 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4731 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4732 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4733 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4735 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4736 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4737 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4740 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4741 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4742 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4743 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4744 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4750 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4751 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4753 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4756 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4757 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4758 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4759 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4760 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4761 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4762 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4763 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4766 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4768 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4769 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4770 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4772 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4773 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4774 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4777 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4778 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4780 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4781 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4782 option (which defaults to 0600).
4784 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4786 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4787 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4788 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4789 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4790 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4791 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4792 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4794 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4800 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4801 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4802 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4803 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4804 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4805 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4808 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4809 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4811 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4813 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4814 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4815 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4816 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4817 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4820 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4821 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4823 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4824 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4825 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4826 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4827 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4829 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4830 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4831 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4832 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4834 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4835 be the same on different OS.
4837 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4840 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4841 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4843 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4846 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4847 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4848 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4849 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4850 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4851 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4854 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4855 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4856 when Exim was called.
4858 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4859 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4861 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4862 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4863 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4864 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4866 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4867 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4868 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4869 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4872 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4873 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4874 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4876 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4877 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4878 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4880 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4883 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4884 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4885 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4886 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4887 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4888 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4889 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4890 values from the SRV records were lost.
4892 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4893 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4894 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4896 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4897 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4898 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4900 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4901 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4902 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4903 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4904 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4905 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4906 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4907 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4908 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4909 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4911 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4912 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4913 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4915 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4916 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4918 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4919 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4920 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4921 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4924 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4925 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4926 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4928 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4929 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4930 PH/23 above applies.
4932 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4933 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4934 (for which there is an explicit test).
4936 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4938 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4939 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4940 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4941 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4942 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4944 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4945 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4946 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4947 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4949 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4950 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4951 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4953 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4955 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4957 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4958 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4959 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4961 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4962 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4963 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4964 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4965 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4967 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4968 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4969 the message gets confusing).
4971 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4972 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4973 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4974 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4976 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4977 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4978 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4979 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4982 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4983 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4984 the different processes.
4986 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4988 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4990 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4991 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4993 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4994 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4996 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4997 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4998 messages matching specified criteria.
5000 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
5002 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
5003 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
5005 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
5006 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
5007 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
5008 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
5009 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
5010 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
5011 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
5012 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
5013 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
5014 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
5016 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
5017 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
5018 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
5020 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
5022 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
5023 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
5024 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
5025 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
5026 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
5027 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
5028 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
5031 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
5032 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
5034 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
5036 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
5038 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
5040 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
5041 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
5042 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
5043 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
5044 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
5045 size of the count of files.
5047 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
5049 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
5052 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
5053 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
5054 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
5055 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
5057 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
5058 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
5059 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
5061 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
5062 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
5063 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
5064 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
5065 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
5067 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
5068 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
5070 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
5071 will now be deprecated.
5073 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5075 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
5076 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
5077 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
5079 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
5080 with very large, slow to parse queues
5082 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
5084 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
5086 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
5087 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
5088 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
5091 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
5092 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
5093 Sieve code now uses this.
5095 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
5096 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
5098 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
5099 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
5101 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
5103 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
5104 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
5105 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
5106 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
5107 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
5109 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
5110 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
5111 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
5112 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
5114 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
5116 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
5118 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
5119 is preferred over IPv4.
5121 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
5122 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
5123 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
5124 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
5125 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
5126 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
5127 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
5129 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
5130 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
5131 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
5133 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
5135 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
5136 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
5137 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
5138 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
5139 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
5140 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
5141 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
5142 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
5143 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
5144 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
5145 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
5147 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
5148 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
5149 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
5155 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
5157 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
5158 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
5160 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
5161 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
5162 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5164 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
5166 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
5169 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
5172 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
5173 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
5174 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
5177 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
5178 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
5180 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
5181 inside the third argument.
5183 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
5184 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
5187 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
5188 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
5190 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
5191 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
5193 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
5195 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
5196 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
5199 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
5201 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
5202 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
5203 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
5204 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
5205 identical. For example:
5207 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
5209 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
5210 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
5211 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
5213 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
5214 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
5215 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
5216 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
5218 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
5219 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
5220 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
5223 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
5225 o fixes some comments
5226 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
5227 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
5228 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
5229 and documents the missing references header update
5233 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
5234 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
5237 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
5238 Electronic Mail") by including:
5240 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
5242 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
5243 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
5244 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
5245 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
5246 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
5248 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5250 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
5252 The auto-replied keyword:
5254 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
5255 message by an automatic process,
5257 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
5259 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
5260 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
5262 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
5263 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
5266 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
5267 to the default Received: header definition.
5269 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
5271 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
5272 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
5273 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
5275 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
5276 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
5277 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
5279 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
5280 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
5281 and treats the condition as false.
5283 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
5285 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
5286 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
5287 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
5288 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
5289 not changing the active code.
5291 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5292 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5294 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5295 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5297 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5300 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5301 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5302 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5303 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5304 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5305 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5306 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5307 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5308 the text comparison.
5310 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5311 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5312 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5313 The same fix has been applied.
5319 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5320 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5323 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5324 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5326 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5328 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5329 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5330 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5331 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5332 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5334 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5335 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5336 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5337 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5340 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5348 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5349 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5351 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5353 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5355 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5356 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5357 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5359 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5360 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5361 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5363 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5364 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5367 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5368 ${stat: expansion item.
5370 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5371 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5373 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5374 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5377 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5379 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5382 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5383 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5385 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5387 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5388 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5389 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5390 the end of the subprocess.
5392 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5393 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5394 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5395 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5396 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5398 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5400 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5402 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5403 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5405 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5407 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5409 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5410 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5413 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5415 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5416 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5417 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5419 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5420 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5422 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5423 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5425 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5426 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5428 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5429 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5431 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5432 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5433 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5434 contributed by a Radius user.
5436 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5437 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5439 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5440 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5442 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5445 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5446 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5449 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5450 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5451 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5452 header lines when this was not necessary.
5454 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5456 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5457 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5458 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5461 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5464 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5465 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5466 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5467 return code was incorrect.
5469 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5471 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5473 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5475 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5477 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5478 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5479 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5480 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5481 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5484 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5486 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5487 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5488 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5489 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5490 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5491 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5492 which is clearly wrong.
5494 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5496 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5497 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5498 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5501 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5502 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5504 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5506 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5507 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5509 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5510 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5512 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5513 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5515 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5516 recipients, not senders.
5518 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5519 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5521 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5523 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5525 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5526 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5527 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5528 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5530 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5532 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5533 clock is set back in time.
5535 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5536 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5538 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5539 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5541 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5542 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5545 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5546 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5549 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5552 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5554 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5555 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5556 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5558 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5559 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5560 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5561 helo verification defer as a failure.
5563 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5564 actual error message.
5570 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5572 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5573 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5574 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5575 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5577 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5579 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5580 can still be requested.
5582 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5583 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5584 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5585 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5587 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5588 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5589 circumstances, but probably never did.
5591 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5592 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5593 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5596 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5598 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5599 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5601 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5603 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5605 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5606 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5607 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5608 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5609 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5610 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5612 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5613 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5614 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5615 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5616 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5617 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5619 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5620 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5622 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5623 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5625 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5626 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5628 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5630 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5632 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5634 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5636 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5638 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5640 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5642 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5643 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5644 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5646 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5647 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5648 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5649 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5651 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5652 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5653 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5655 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5656 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5657 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5658 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5660 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5661 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5664 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5665 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5666 should work with maildirs and everything.
5668 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5669 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5671 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5674 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5675 function for BDB 4.3.
5677 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5679 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5680 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5683 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5684 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5685 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5686 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5687 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5688 formatting function string_vformat().
5690 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5691 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5692 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5693 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5694 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5695 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5696 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5697 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5699 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5700 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5703 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5704 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5706 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5707 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5708 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5709 test. It is now used for both.
5711 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5712 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5713 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5714 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5715 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5716 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5718 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5719 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5720 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5723 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5724 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5725 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5727 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5728 experimental DomainKeys support:
5730 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5731 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5732 the control was given.
5734 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5736 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5738 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5740 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5741 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5742 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5745 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5746 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5747 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5748 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5749 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5750 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5753 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5754 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5755 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5756 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5757 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5758 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5760 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5761 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5762 do -d+all out of habit.
5764 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5765 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5768 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5769 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5770 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5771 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5772 record types that Exim uses.
5774 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5775 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5776 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5777 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5778 non-existent file that was broken.
5780 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5781 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5783 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5784 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5785 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5787 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5789 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5790 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5791 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5792 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5793 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5796 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5797 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5798 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5799 at a slight CPU cost.
5801 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5802 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5804 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5807 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5809 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5810 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5816 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5817 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5819 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5821 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5823 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5824 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5826 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5827 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5828 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5829 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5830 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5831 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5834 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5835 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5836 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5837 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5840 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5841 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5842 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5843 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5844 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5845 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5846 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5849 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5850 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5852 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5853 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5854 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5855 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5856 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5857 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5859 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5860 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5861 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5862 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5864 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5867 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5868 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5870 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5871 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5872 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5873 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5876 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5878 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5879 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5881 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5882 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5883 to what was transported.)
5885 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5887 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5888 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5889 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5890 spamd_address settings.
5892 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5893 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5894 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5895 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5896 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5898 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5900 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5901 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5902 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5903 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5904 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5906 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5907 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5909 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5910 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5911 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5912 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5913 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5914 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5915 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5918 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5919 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5920 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5921 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5922 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5923 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5924 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5927 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5929 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5930 driver and ACL definitions.
5932 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5933 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5935 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5936 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5937 understands it better than I do:
5939 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5940 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5942 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5943 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5944 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5945 => three warnings about OTP not working
5946 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5948 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5949 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5950 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5951 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5953 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5954 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5956 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5957 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5958 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5960 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5961 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5964 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5965 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5968 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5969 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5970 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5972 warn !verify = sender
5973 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5975 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5976 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5978 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5980 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5981 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5983 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5984 nomenclature these days.)
5986 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5987 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5989 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5990 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5991 . First host does not offer TLS;
5992 . First host accepts first address;
5993 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5994 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5995 . Second host accepts second address.
5996 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5997 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
6000 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
6001 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
6002 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
6003 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
6004 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
6006 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
6007 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
6009 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
6010 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
6012 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
6013 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
6014 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
6016 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
6017 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
6020 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
6022 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
6023 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
6024 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
6025 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
6026 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
6027 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
6028 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
6030 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
6031 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
6032 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
6033 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
6034 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
6036 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
6037 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
6040 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
6041 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
6042 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
6043 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
6044 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
6045 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
6047 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
6049 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
6050 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
6051 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
6052 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
6053 printable escape sequences.
6055 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
6056 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
6059 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
6060 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
6063 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
6064 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
6065 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
6066 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
6067 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
6069 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
6070 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
6071 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
6073 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
6075 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
6076 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
6079 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
6080 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
6081 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
6082 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
6083 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
6084 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
6085 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
6086 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
6087 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
6090 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
6091 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
6092 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
6093 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
6097 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
6098 ----------------------------------------
6100 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
6101 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
6102 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
6103 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
6104 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
6105 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
6108 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
6109 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
6110 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
6111 historical information.
6117 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6119 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
6120 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
6122 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6123 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6126 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6127 filter fails to execute.
6129 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6130 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6131 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6132 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6133 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6135 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
6137 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6138 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6139 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6140 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6142 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6143 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6144 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6145 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6146 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6148 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
6150 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6152 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6153 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6154 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6155 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6157 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6158 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6159 sender verification.
6161 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
6162 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
6164 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
6166 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
6169 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6170 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6172 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6173 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6175 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
6176 information about exactly what failed.
6178 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
6180 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
6181 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
6182 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
6184 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
6185 It is now set to "smtps".
6187 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6188 ignore_target_hosts.
6190 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6191 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6192 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6193 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6196 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6197 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6198 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6200 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6201 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6202 wake it up if nothing else does.
6204 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6205 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6206 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6209 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6210 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6212 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
6214 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
6215 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
6216 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
6217 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
6218 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
6219 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
6220 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
6221 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
6223 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
6224 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
6225 than one IP address.
6227 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
6228 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
6229 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
6230 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
6232 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6233 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6234 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6235 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6236 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6239 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
6240 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
6241 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
6242 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
6244 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6245 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6248 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6249 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6250 $sender_host_address.
6252 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
6253 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
6254 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
6255 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
6256 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
6259 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
6261 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
6262 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
6264 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
6265 just the host names, not the priorities.
6267 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
6268 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
6269 controlled by a keyword.
6271 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
6272 multiple records are returned.
6274 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
6275 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
6278 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
6280 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
6281 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
6283 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6284 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6285 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6287 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
6289 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6291 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6293 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6294 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6295 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6296 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6297 because the tests only now provoked it.
6299 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6300 (this can affect the format of dates).
6302 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6303 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6304 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6305 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6307 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6309 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6310 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6311 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6312 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6314 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6315 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6316 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6318 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6321 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6322 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6323 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6324 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6325 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6326 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6329 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6330 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6331 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6334 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6335 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6336 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6338 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6339 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6340 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6341 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6342 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6343 so I produce this patch..."
6345 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6346 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6349 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6350 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6351 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6352 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6355 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6357 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6358 long debug lines gets shown.
6360 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6361 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6363 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6365 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6366 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6367 of $primary_hostname.
6369 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6370 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6371 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6372 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6373 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6374 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6375 by change 4.50/55 above.
6377 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6378 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6379 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6380 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6381 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6382 running as the user.
6385 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6386 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6387 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6390 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6391 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6393 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6394 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6395 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6396 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6397 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6399 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6400 This has been fixed.
6402 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6403 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6404 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6405 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6408 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6410 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6411 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6412 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6413 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6415 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6416 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6418 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6419 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6420 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6422 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6423 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6424 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6427 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6428 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6429 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6431 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6432 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6433 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6434 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6436 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6437 during host lookups.
6439 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6440 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6442 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6444 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6445 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6446 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6447 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6448 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6451 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6452 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6454 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6455 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6456 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6458 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6460 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6461 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6462 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6463 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6464 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6465 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6468 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6469 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6470 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6471 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6472 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6474 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6477 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6479 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6480 "vacation" handling.
6482 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6483 OS variants using glibc.
6485 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6488 ----------------------------------------------------
6489 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6490 ----------------------------------------------------
6496 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6497 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6500 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6501 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6504 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6505 filter fails to execute.
6507 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6508 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6509 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6510 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6511 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6513 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6514 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6515 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6516 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6518 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6519 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6520 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6521 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6522 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6524 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6526 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6527 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6528 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6529 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6531 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6532 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6533 sender verification.
6535 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6536 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6538 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6539 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6541 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6542 ignore_target_hosts.
6544 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6545 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6546 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6547 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6550 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6551 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6552 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6554 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6555 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6556 wake it up if nothing else does.
6558 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6559 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6560 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6563 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6564 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6566 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6568 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6569 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6572 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6573 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6576 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6577 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6578 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6579 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6580 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6583 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6584 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6587 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6588 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6589 $sender_host_address.
6591 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6593 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6594 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6595 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6597 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6600 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6601 (this can affect the format of dates).
6603 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6604 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6605 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6606 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6608 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6609 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6610 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6612 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6613 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6614 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6615 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6617 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6618 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6619 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6621 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6624 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6625 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6626 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6627 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6628 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6629 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6632 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6633 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6634 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6635 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6638 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6639 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6640 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6641 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6642 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6643 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6644 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6646 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6647 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6648 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6649 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6650 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6651 running as the user.
6654 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6655 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6656 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6659 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6660 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6661 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6662 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6663 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6665 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6666 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6667 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6668 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6671 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6672 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6673 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6674 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6675 because the tests only now provoked it.
6681 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6682 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6683 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6684 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6685 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6686 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6687 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6689 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6690 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6693 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6695 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6697 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6698 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6701 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6702 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6703 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6704 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6705 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6707 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6708 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6710 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6712 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6714 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6717 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6718 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6720 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6721 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6722 affecting debugging statements).
6724 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6726 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6727 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6728 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6729 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6730 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6731 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6732 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6733 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6734 after the received time, and all would be well.
6736 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6737 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6738 condition in an expansion string.
6740 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6742 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6743 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6744 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6745 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6746 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6747 job under whatever limits there are.
6749 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6751 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6754 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6755 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6756 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6757 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6760 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6761 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6762 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6763 binary data in such strings.
6765 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6767 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6768 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6769 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6770 failure, which is pointless.
6772 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6774 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6776 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6777 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6778 Sender: header lines.
6780 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6781 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6782 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6784 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6785 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6786 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6787 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6788 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6791 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6792 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6793 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6794 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6795 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6797 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6798 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6799 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6802 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6803 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6805 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6806 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6808 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6810 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6812 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6814 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6817 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6819 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6821 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6822 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6823 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6824 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6826 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6827 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6833 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6834 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6835 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6837 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6838 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6839 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6840 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6841 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6842 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6844 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6845 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6846 verification failure".
6848 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6849 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6850 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6851 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6853 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6854 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6855 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6856 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6857 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6858 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6859 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6860 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6861 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6862 treated as a timeout.
6864 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6865 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6866 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6867 not set for Exim filters).
6869 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6870 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6871 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6873 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6875 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6876 try to make them clearer.
6878 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6879 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6881 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6883 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6885 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6886 only the Cygwin environment.
6888 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6889 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6890 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6891 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6892 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6894 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6895 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6896 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6897 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6898 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6899 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6900 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6902 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6903 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6905 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6907 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6908 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6909 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6911 To: susanne@some.where
6913 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6914 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6915 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6916 of addresses in From: header lines).
6918 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6919 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6920 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6922 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6923 treated as non-personal.
6925 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6926 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6928 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6930 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6932 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6933 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6934 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6936 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6937 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6939 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6940 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6941 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6942 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6943 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6944 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6946 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6947 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6948 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6949 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6950 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6951 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6952 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6953 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6955 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6957 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6958 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6960 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6961 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6962 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6964 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6965 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6967 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6968 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6969 rather than long int.
6971 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6973 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6979 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6980 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6981 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6982 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6983 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6984 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6990 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6991 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6993 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6994 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6995 socklen_t is defined.
6997 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
7000 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
7003 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
7004 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
7005 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
7006 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
7007 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
7009 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
7010 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
7011 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
7012 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
7014 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
7015 of flapping under certain conditions.
7017 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
7018 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
7019 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
7021 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
7023 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
7025 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
7026 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
7027 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
7028 the duration of the SMTP connection.
7030 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
7031 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
7032 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
7033 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
7034 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
7035 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
7036 preserved with the message after it was received.
7038 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
7039 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
7040 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
7041 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
7042 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
7043 test suite worked just fine.
7045 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
7046 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
7047 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
7049 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
7050 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
7053 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
7054 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
7055 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
7056 does not fully solve it.
7058 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
7059 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
7060 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
7061 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
7062 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
7064 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
7065 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
7066 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
7068 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
7069 string, for example:
7071 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
7073 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
7074 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
7075 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
7076 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
7077 the routers could not see them.
7079 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
7080 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
7082 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
7083 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
7086 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
7087 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
7088 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
7089 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
7090 that needed quoting.
7092 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
7093 was not being matched caselessly.
7095 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
7098 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
7099 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
7100 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
7101 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
7102 when use_sender is false.
7104 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
7106 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
7108 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
7110 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
7111 the configuration file.
7113 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
7114 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
7116 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
7118 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
7119 bytes in the message body.
7121 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
7122 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
7125 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
7127 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
7129 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
7130 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
7131 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
7132 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
7139 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
7140 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
7142 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
7143 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
7144 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
7145 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
7146 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
7148 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
7149 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
7151 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
7152 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
7153 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
7155 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
7156 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
7157 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
7159 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
7162 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
7163 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
7164 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
7165 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
7166 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
7167 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
7168 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
7174 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
7175 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
7176 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
7177 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
7178 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
7179 default (and expected) setting.
7181 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
7182 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
7183 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
7184 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
7186 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
7187 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
7189 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
7192 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
7193 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
7194 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
7195 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
7196 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
7197 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
7199 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
7200 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
7201 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
7203 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
7204 part (NOT match_host).
7206 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
7208 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
7209 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
7210 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
7211 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
7212 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
7213 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
7214 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
7215 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
7216 the same named file.
7218 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
7219 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
7222 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
7223 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
7224 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
7225 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
7228 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
7229 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
7230 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
7232 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
7234 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
7236 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
7238 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
7239 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
7241 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
7242 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
7243 before starting the TLS session.
7245 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
7247 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
7248 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
7250 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
7251 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
7252 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
7253 colon in the middle).
7259 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
7260 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
7261 multiple configurations are in use.
7263 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
7264 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
7265 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
7266 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
7267 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
7268 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
7270 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
7271 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
7273 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
7274 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
7275 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
7277 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
7278 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
7281 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
7282 that used bh_ and bheader_.
7284 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
7286 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
7287 allowing one more file than it should have been.
7289 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7297 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7298 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7299 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7300 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7301 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7303 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7306 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7307 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7308 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7309 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7310 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7311 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7313 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7314 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7315 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7316 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7317 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7318 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7319 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7322 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7323 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7324 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7325 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7326 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7328 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7330 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7331 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7332 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7334 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7336 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7337 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7338 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7341 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7342 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7344 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7345 Three changes have been made:
7347 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7348 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7349 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7350 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7351 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7353 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7356 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7357 the modified behaviour.
7363 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7366 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7367 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7369 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7370 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7371 try to track down a specific problem.
7373 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7374 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7375 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7377 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7380 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7381 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7382 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7383 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7384 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7385 some earlier ones do not.
7387 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7389 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7390 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7391 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7392 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7393 address literals are enabled, of course).
7395 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7397 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7398 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7399 by a command such as
7403 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7405 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7407 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7408 remained set. It is now erased.
7410 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7411 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7413 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7414 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7415 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7416 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7417 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7418 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7419 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7420 appropriate error code.
7422 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7423 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7424 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7425 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7426 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7427 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7429 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7430 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7431 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7433 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7434 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7435 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7436 terminate the header.
7438 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7439 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7440 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7442 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7443 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7444 (4.30/29). In particular:
7446 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7449 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7450 to write a maildirsize file.
7452 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7453 the transport, the new value overrides.
7455 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7458 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7459 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7460 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7463 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7464 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7465 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7468 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7469 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7470 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7472 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7473 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7476 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7477 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7478 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7480 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7482 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7484 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7486 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7487 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7490 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7491 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7492 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7493 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7494 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7495 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7496 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7499 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7500 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7501 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7502 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7503 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7506 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7507 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7508 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7509 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7510 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7511 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7512 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7513 cached value only when the same options are set.
7515 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7517 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7518 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7519 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7520 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7521 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7523 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7524 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7525 it is clearly obsolete.
7527 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7530 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7531 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7532 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7535 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7536 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7537 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7538 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7539 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7541 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7542 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7543 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7544 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7546 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7548 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7550 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7551 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7554 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7555 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7556 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7557 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7558 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7559 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7562 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7563 with the -f command-line option.
7565 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7566 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7567 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7568 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7569 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7570 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7572 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7573 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7576 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7577 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7578 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7579 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7580 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7581 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7582 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7583 buffer is too small.
7585 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7586 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7588 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7589 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7590 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7591 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7592 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7593 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7594 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7595 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7596 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7598 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7599 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7600 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7602 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7603 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7606 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7607 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7608 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7609 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7610 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7612 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7613 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7614 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7615 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7618 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7620 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7622 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7623 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7625 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7626 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7627 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7629 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7630 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7631 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7632 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7633 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7635 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7636 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7637 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7638 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7639 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7640 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7641 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7643 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7644 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7645 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7646 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7647 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7648 the test of how many are available.
7650 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7651 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7652 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7653 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7654 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7655 new message is started.
7657 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7658 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7660 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7661 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7663 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7664 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7665 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7668 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7669 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7670 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7671 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7672 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7673 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7674 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7676 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7677 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7678 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7679 interpreted as octal.
7681 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7684 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7685 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7686 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7687 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7688 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7689 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7691 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7692 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7693 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7694 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7696 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7697 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7698 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7699 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7701 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7702 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7705 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7706 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7708 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7710 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7711 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7712 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7713 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7715 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7716 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7717 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7718 supplied", which is not helpful.
7720 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7721 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7722 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7724 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7725 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7726 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7727 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7728 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7729 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7730 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7731 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7733 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7734 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7735 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7736 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7737 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7739 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7740 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7741 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7742 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7743 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7744 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7746 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7747 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7748 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7750 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7752 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7753 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7754 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7757 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7759 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7760 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7761 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7762 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7763 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7764 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7765 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7766 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7768 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7769 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7770 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7771 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7772 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7774 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7777 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7778 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7779 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7780 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7781 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7782 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7783 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7784 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7785 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7791 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7792 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7793 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7795 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7798 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7799 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7800 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7802 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7803 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7804 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7805 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7806 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7807 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7809 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7810 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7811 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7812 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7813 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7814 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7815 the Exim test suite.
7817 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7818 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7819 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7820 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7822 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7823 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7824 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7825 specify it in this variable.
7827 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7828 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7829 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7830 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7832 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7833 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7834 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7835 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7837 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7838 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7839 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7840 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7841 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7843 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7845 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7848 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7849 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7850 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7851 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7852 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7854 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7855 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7857 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7858 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7859 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7860 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7861 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7863 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7864 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7866 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7867 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7868 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7870 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7871 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7873 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7874 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7876 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7877 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7878 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7880 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7881 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7883 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7884 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7885 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7886 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7888 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7890 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7891 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7892 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7893 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7895 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7897 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7898 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7900 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7902 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7903 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7904 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7905 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7906 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7907 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7909 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7911 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7912 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7915 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7917 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7918 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7920 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7921 550 Sender verify failed
7923 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7924 the final line of the response.
7926 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7927 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7928 all other user lookups.
7930 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7933 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7934 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7935 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7936 result into an int without checking.
7938 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7939 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7940 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7942 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7943 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7944 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7945 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7947 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7950 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7951 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7953 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7954 to the empty sender.
7956 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7957 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7958 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7959 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7960 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7961 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7962 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7965 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7966 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7967 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7968 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7971 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7972 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7974 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7977 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7978 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7980 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7982 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7983 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7986 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7987 as soon as it is encountered.
7989 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7991 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7994 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7995 recognizes a tab character.
7997 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7998 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7999 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
8000 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
8002 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
8004 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
8007 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
8009 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
8011 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
8012 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
8015 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
8016 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
8017 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
8018 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
8019 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
8021 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
8022 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
8024 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
8025 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
8026 list (.included file names were always shown).
8028 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
8029 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
8030 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
8033 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
8034 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
8036 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
8038 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
8040 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
8042 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
8043 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
8044 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
8045 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
8046 failures to open the logs.
8048 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
8049 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
8050 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
8051 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
8052 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
8053 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
8054 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
8060 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
8061 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
8062 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
8065 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
8066 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
8067 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
8069 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
8070 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
8071 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
8073 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
8074 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
8075 causing some misleading effects.
8077 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
8078 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
8079 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
8081 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
8082 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
8083 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
8084 queue-runner function directly.
8090 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
8093 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
8094 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
8095 was always written to the default place.
8097 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
8098 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
8099 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
8101 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
8103 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
8105 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
8106 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
8107 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
8109 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
8110 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
8113 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
8114 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
8115 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
8117 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
8118 command line option is disabled.
8120 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
8121 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
8123 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
8125 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
8127 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
8128 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
8130 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
8132 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
8133 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
8134 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
8135 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
8136 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
8137 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
8139 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
8140 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
8143 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
8144 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
8146 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
8147 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
8149 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
8150 received was valid base64.
8152 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
8153 name of the variable that was being set.
8155 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
8157 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
8158 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
8159 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
8160 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
8161 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
8162 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
8164 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
8166 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
8167 nor realm was specified.
8169 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
8170 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
8171 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
8172 errors are given to SMTP connections.
8174 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
8175 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
8176 failing to send a response to QUIT.
8178 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
8179 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
8180 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
8182 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
8183 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
8184 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
8185 some systems use these upper case variants.
8187 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
8188 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
8189 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
8190 socket" when it tried to send the third.
8192 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
8194 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
8195 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
8197 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
8198 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
8201 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
8203 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
8204 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
8205 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
8206 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
8208 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
8211 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
8212 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
8213 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
8215 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
8216 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
8218 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
8219 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
8220 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
8221 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
8223 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
8224 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
8225 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
8227 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
8229 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
8230 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
8231 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
8232 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
8235 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
8236 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
8237 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
8239 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
8241 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
8242 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
8244 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
8245 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
8247 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
8248 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
8249 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
8250 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
8251 when emails are that large.
8258 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
8259 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
8261 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
8262 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
8263 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
8265 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
8266 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
8267 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
8269 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
8270 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
8271 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
8272 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
8273 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
8275 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
8276 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
8277 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
8278 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
8279 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
8282 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
8283 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
8284 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
8285 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
8286 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
8287 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
8288 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
8289 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8290 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8291 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8292 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8293 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8294 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8295 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8297 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8298 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8301 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8302 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8303 error should be diagnosed.
8305 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8306 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8307 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8308 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8309 appeared instead of "NULL".
8311 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8312 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8313 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8314 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8315 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8316 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8319 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8320 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8321 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8327 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8328 or receiver verification errors.
8330 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8333 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8334 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8335 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8336 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8338 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8339 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8340 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8341 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8342 shouldn't happen again.
8344 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8345 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8346 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8348 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8349 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8351 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8353 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8354 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8356 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8357 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8360 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8361 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8362 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8364 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8365 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8366 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8367 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8369 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8370 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8371 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8372 to define what should happen).
8374 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8375 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8376 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8378 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8380 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8382 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8383 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8385 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8386 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8387 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8388 structure in all cases.
8390 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8391 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8392 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8393 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8395 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8396 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8399 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8400 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8402 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8403 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8405 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8406 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8407 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8409 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8410 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8411 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8413 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8414 the book and for uniformity.
8416 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8418 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8419 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8420 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8421 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8422 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8423 non-existent command as the problem.
8425 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8426 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8427 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8429 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8431 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8432 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8433 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8435 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8436 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8437 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8438 timestamps using strftime().
8440 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8441 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8443 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8444 transport-time rewrites.
8446 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8447 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8448 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8449 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8451 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8452 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8454 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8455 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8456 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8457 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8460 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8461 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8462 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8463 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8464 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8465 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8466 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8468 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8469 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8470 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8471 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8472 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8474 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8475 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8476 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8477 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8478 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8479 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8480 remaining text gets split now.
8482 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8483 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8484 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8485 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8487 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8488 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8489 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8490 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8493 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8494 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8495 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8496 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8497 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8498 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8499 passed through if needed.
8501 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8502 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8503 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8504 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8505 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8506 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8508 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8509 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8510 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8511 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8512 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8514 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8515 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8516 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8517 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8518 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8520 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8521 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8524 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8525 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8526 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8527 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8528 mayhem of various kinds.
8530 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8531 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8532 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8533 the right test for positive values.
8535 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8536 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8537 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8538 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8539 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8540 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8541 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8542 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8543 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8544 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8547 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8550 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8551 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8554 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8555 the existing equality matching.
8557 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8558 dealing with inode numbers.
8560 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8561 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8562 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8564 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8565 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8566 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8567 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8570 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8571 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8572 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8573 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8574 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8575 relay addresses has also been removed.
8577 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8579 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8580 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8581 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8583 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8584 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8585 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8586 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8587 processing applies to CR:
8589 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8590 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8592 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8593 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8594 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8595 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8597 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8598 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8599 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8601 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8602 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8603 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8604 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8605 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8606 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8609 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8612 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8613 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8614 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8615 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8618 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8620 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8622 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8624 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8625 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8626 not considered personal.
8628 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8630 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8632 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8634 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8635 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8636 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8637 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8638 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8639 header lines, and spool format errors.
8641 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8642 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8643 for more flexibility.
8645 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8646 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8647 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8649 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8652 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8653 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8654 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8655 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8656 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8657 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8658 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8659 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8660 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8662 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8663 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8664 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8665 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8666 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8667 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8668 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8670 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8671 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8672 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8674 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8675 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8676 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8677 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8678 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8679 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8680 instead of killing the process with assert().
8682 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8683 than Unicode encoding.
8685 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8686 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8687 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8688 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8690 77. Added process_log_path.
8692 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8693 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8695 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8696 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8698 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8699 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8700 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8702 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8703 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8704 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8705 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8706 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8709 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8710 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8713 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8714 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8715 they will be used during message reception.
8721 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.